---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2881"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2881"
heading: "Ancillary supporting facilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2881"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 169 — Military Construction and Military Family Housing"
  - "Subchapter IV — Alternative Authority for Acquisition and Improvement of Military Housing"
---

# §2881. Ancillary supporting facilities

- (a) **Authority To Acquire or Construct.—** Any project for the acquisition or [construction](/usc/10/2871.md?p=3) of [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) family [housing units](/usc/10/2871.md?p=8) or [military unaccompanied housing](/usc/10/2871.md?p=11) units under this subchapter may include the acquisition or [construction](/usc/10/2871.md?p=3) of [ancillary supporting facilities](/usc/10/2871.md?p=1) for the [housing units](/usc/10/2871.md?p=8) concerned.
- (b) **Restriction.—** A project referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) may not include the acquisition or [construction](/usc/10/2871.md?p=3) of an ancillary supporting [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) (other than a [child development center](/usc/10/2871.md?p=2)) if, as determined by the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5), the [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) is to be used for providing merchandise or services in direct competition with—
  - (1) the Army and Air Force Exchange Service;
  - (2) the Navy Exchange Service Command;
  - (3) a Marine Corps exchange;
  - (4) the Defense Commissary [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3); or
  - (5) any nonappropriated [fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) activity of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense for the morale, welfare, and recreation of members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–106, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2801(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 548; amended Pub. L. 106–65, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2804, Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 849; Pub. L. 109–163, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2805(a), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3507.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2006—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–163 inserted “(other than a child development center)” after “ancillary supporting facility” in introductory provisions.

1999—Pub. L. 106–65 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and added subsec. (b).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Construction of 2006 Amendment

Pub. L. 109–163, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2805(c), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3507, provided that: “Nothing in the amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] may be construed to alter any law and regulation applicable to the operation of a child development center, as defined in section 2871(2) of title 10, United States Code.”