---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2771"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2771"
heading: "Attendance at professional meetings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2771"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 27 — Pay, Allowances, Awards, and Other Rights and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter III — Payments"
---

# §2771. Attendance at professional meetings


Coast Guard personnel may be directed to attend meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations and may be reimbursed for expenses thereby incurred at the rates authorized by law.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 532, § 471; renumbered § 2771, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 116(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4226.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

It is believed that the authority contained in this section will greatly benefit the Government in providing better trained personnel. A similar provision was enacted for personnel of the Navy in 1946 (see title 5, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 421c). 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 471 of this title as this section.