---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 422"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "422"
heading: "Use of funds for certain incidental purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/422"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 21 — Department of Defense Intelligence Matters"
  - "Subchapter I — General Matters"
---

# §422. Use of funds for certain incidental purposes

- (a) **Counterintelligence Official Reception and Representation Expenses.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may use funds available to the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense for counterintelligence [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) to [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) the expenses of hosting foreign officials in the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) under the auspices of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense for consultation on counterintelligence matters.
- (b) **Promotional Items for Recruitment Purposes.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may use funds available for an intelligence element of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense to purchase promotional items of nominal value for use in the recruitment of individuals for employment by that element.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–569, title IV, § 401(c), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3195, § 140a; renumbered § 422, Pub. L. 100–26, § 9(a)(3), Apr. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 287; amended Pub. L. 107–108, title V, § 501(a)–(b)(2), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1404.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2001—Pub. L. 107–108 substituted “Use of funds for certain incidental purposes” for “Counterintelligence official reception and representation expenses” in section catchline, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and added subsec. (b).

1987—Pub. L. 100–26 renumbered section 140a of this title as this section.