---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2942"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2942"
heading: "General authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2942"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 29 — Coast Guard Family Support, Child Care, and Housing"
  - "Subchapter III — Housing"
---

# §2942. General authority

- (a) **Authority.—** In addition to any other authority providing for the acquisition or [construction](/usc/14/2941.md?p=2) of military family housing or [military unaccompanied housing](/usc/14/2941.md?p=3), the Secretary may acquire or [construct](/usc/14/2941.md?p=1) the following:
  - (1) Military family housing on or near Coast Guard installations within the [United States](/usc/14/2941.md?p=4) and its territories and possessions.
  - (2) [Military unaccompanied housing](/usc/14/2941.md?p=3) on or near such Coast Guard installations.
- (b) **Limitation on Appropriations.—** No appropriation shall be made to acquire or [construct](/usc/14/2941.md?p=1) military family housing or [military unaccompanied housing](/usc/14/2941.md?p=3) under this chapter if that acquisition or [construction](/usc/14/2941.md?p=2) has not been approved by resolutions adopted by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–324, title II, § 208(a), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3909, § 681; amended Pub. L. 107–295, title IV, § 402(a), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2113; Pub. L. 111–281, title II, § 221(a)(2), Oct. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 2919; renumbered § 2942, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 117(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4230.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 681 of this title as this section.

2010—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–281, § 221(a)(2)(A), in introductory provisions, substituted “acquire or construct the following:” for “exercise any authority or any combination of authorities provided under this chapter in order to provide for the acquisition or construction by private persons, including a small business concern qualified under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)), of the following:”.

Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 111–281, § 221(a)(2)(B), substituted “Military family housing” for “Family housing units”.

Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 111–281, § 221(a)(2)(C), substituted “Military unaccompanied housing” for “Unaccompanied housing units”.

2002—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–295 inserted “, including a small business concern qualified under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)),” after “private persons” in introductory provisions.