---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 7536"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "7536"
heading: "Equipment: post bakeries, schools, kitchens, and mess halls"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/7536"
units:
  - "Subtitle B — Army"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Procurement"
  - "Chapter 763 — Procurement"
---

# §7536. Equipment: post bakeries, schools, kitchens, and mess halls


Money necessary for the following items for the use of [enlisted members](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-6) of the Army may be spent from appropriations for [regular](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-12) [supplies](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-14):

- (1) Equipment for post bakeries.
- (2) Furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for post schools.
- (3) Tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls.

## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 254, § 4536; renumbered § 7536, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(d), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1839.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 4536 | 10:1334. | June 13, 1890, ch. 423 (1st proviso under “Quartermaster’s Department”), 26 Stat. 152. |

The words “Money necessary * * * may be spent” are substituted for the words “There may be expended * * * the amounts required”. The word “bakeries” is substituted for the words “bake house to carry on post bakeries”. The words “each and all” are omitted as surplusage.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4536 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.