---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 7714"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "7714"
heading: "Collection of captured flags, standards, and colors"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/7714"
units:
  - "Subtitle B — Army"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Procurement"
  - "Chapter 775 — Disposition of Effects of Deceased Persons; Captured Flags"
---

# §7714. Collection of captured flags, standards, and colors


The [Secretary](/usc/10/7551.md?p=5) of the Army shall have sent to him all flags, standards, and colors taken by the Army from enemies of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1).


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 266, § 4714; renumbered § 7714, 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) |
| 4714 | 5:198. | R.S. 218. |

The words “from time to time”, “collected”, and “at the seat of government” are omitted as surplusage.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4714 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.