---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 9782"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "9782"
heading: "Maintenance and repair of real property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/9782"
units:
  - "Subtitle D — Air Force and Space Force"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Procurement"
  - "Chapter 979 — Real Property"
---

# §9782. Maintenance and repair of real property

- (a) **Allocation of Funds.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/9511.md?p=10) of the Air Force shall allocate funds authorized to be appropriated by a provision described in [subsection (c)](#c) and a provision described in [subsection (d)](#d) for maintenance and repair of real property at military installations of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of the Air Force without regard to whether the installation is supported with funds authorized by a provision described in subsection [(c)](#c) or [(d)](#d).
- (b) **Mixing of Funds Prohibited on Individual Projects.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/9511.md?p=10) of the Air Force may not combine funds authorized to be appropriated by a provision described in [subsection (c)](#c) and funds authorized to be appropriated by a provision described in [subsection (d)](#d) for an individual project for maintenance and repair of real property at a military installation of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of the Air Force.
- (c) **Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Funds.—** The provision described in this subsection is a provision of a national defense authorization Act that authorizes funds to be appropriated for a fiscal year to the Air Force or the Space Force for research, development, test, and evaluation.
- (d) **Operation and Maintenance Funds.—** The provision described in this subsection is a provision of a national defense authorization Act that authorizes funds to be appropriated for a fiscal year to the Air Force or the Space Force for operation and maintenance.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title II, § 242(a), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1666; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 923(e)(21), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3819.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 116–283 inserted “or the Space Force” after “the Air Force”.