---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4082"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4082"
heading: "Loan of household effects"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4082"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter IX — Travel, Leave, and Other Benefits"
---

# §4082. Loan of household effects


The [Secretary](/usc/22/3902.md?p=10) may, as a means of eliminating transportation costs, provide members of the Service with basic household furnishing and equipment for use on a loan basis in personally owned or leased residences.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 902, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2127.)