---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 7563"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "7563"
heading: "Clothing: replacement when destroyed to prevent contagion"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/7563"
units:
  - "Subtitle B — Army"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Procurement"
  - "Chapter 765 — Issue of Serviceable Material to Armed Forces"
---

# §7563. Clothing: replacement when destroyed to prevent contagion


Upon the recommendation of the Surgeon General, the [Secretary](/usc/10/7551.md?p=5) of the Army may order a gratuitous issue of clothing to any [enlisted member](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-6) of the Army who has had a contagious disease, and to any hospital attendant who attended him while he had that disease, to replace clothing destroyed by order of an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) of the Medical Corps to prevent contagion.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 256, § 4563; renumbered § 7563, 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) |
| 4563 | 10:834. | R.S. 1298. |

The words “enlisted member” are substituted for the word “soldiers”. The words “any articles of their” are omitted as surplusage. The words “while he had that disease” are inserted for clarity. The words “an officer of the Medical Corps” are substituted for the words “proper medical officers”.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4563 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.