---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8614"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8614"
heading: "Apprehension of deserters and prisoners; operation of shore patrols"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8614"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part IV — General Administration"
  - "Chapter 861 — Secretary of the Navy: Miscellaneous Powers and Duties"
---

# §8614. Apprehension of deserters and prisoners; operation of shore patrols

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) may make such expenditures out of available appropriations as he considers necessary to—
  - (1) apprehend and deliver deserters, stragglers, and prisoners; and
  - (2) operate shore patrols.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4), to the extent he considers proper, may delegate the authority conferred by this section to any person in the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1), with or without the authority to make successive redelegations.

## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 445, § 7214; renumbered § 8614, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 7214 | 34 U.S.C. 606. | Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 22, 60 Stat. 856. |
|  | 5 U.S.C. 421g(d). | Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 40(d), 60 Stat. 858. |
|  | 5 U.S.C. 412a. | Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 39, 60 Stat. 858. |

In subsection (a) the word “naval” is omitted as surplusage.

In subsection (b) the words “except the authority to prescribe regulations” are omitted, since 34 U.S.C. 606 contains no authority for the Secretary of the Navy to prescribe regulations for the administration of that section.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7214 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.