---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 9591"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "9591"
heading: "Utilities: proceeds from overseas operations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/9591"
units:
  - "Subtitle D — Air Force and Space Force"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Procurement"
  - "Chapter 967 — Utilities and Services"
---

# §9591. Utilities: proceeds from overseas operations


During actual or threatened hostilities, proceeds from operating a public utility in connection with operations of the Air Force or the Space Force in the field overseas are available for that utility until the close of the fiscal year following that in which they are received.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 578; Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 923(e)(6), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3816.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 9591 | 10:1287. | July 9, 1918, ch. 143, subch. XX (1st par.), 40 Stat. 893; May 29, 1928, ch. 901 (par. 37), 45 Stat. 989; Aug. 1, 1953, ch. 305, § 645 (7th clause), 67 Stat. 357. |

The words “Air Force” are substituted for the word “Engineer”, since the Air Force does not have organic corps created by statute.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283 inserted “or the Space Force” after “the Air Force”.