Us Code § 2488 - Combined exchange and commissary stores
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§ 2488. Combined exchange and commissary stores
(a)
(b)
(2) The Secretary may select a military installation for the operation of a combined exchange and commissary store under this section only if—
(A) the installation is to be closed, or has been or is to be realigned, under a base closure law; or
(B) a military exchange and a commissary store are operated at the installation by separate entities at the time of, or immediately before, such selection and it is not economically feasible to continue that separate operation.
(c)
(d)
(e)
(2) The total amount of appropriated funds transferred during a fiscal year to support the operation of a combined exchange and commissary store at a military installation under this section may not exceed an amount that is equal to 25 percent of the amount of appropriated funds that was provided for the operation of the commissary store of the Defense Commissary Agency on that installation during the last full fiscal year of operation of that commissary store.
(f)
(Added Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title III, §336(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 263, §2490a; amended Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title X, §1061(d), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1891; Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title X, §1043(c)(2), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1611; renumbered §2488, Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title VI, §651(b)(3), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1971; Pub. L. 111–383, div. A, title X, §1075(b)(37), Jan. 7, 2011, 124 Stat. 4371.)
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 375 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, referred to in subsec. (c), is section 375 of Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title III, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2736, as amended, which is not classified to the Code.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 2488 was renumbered section 2495 of this title.
Amendments
2011—Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 111–383 substituted "armed forces" for "Armed Forces" in two places.
2004—Pub. L. 108–375 renumbered section 2490a of this title as this section.
2003—Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 108–136, §1043(c)(2), substituted "
"(1) The term"
and struck out par. (2) which read as follows: "The term 'base closure law' has the meaning given such term by section 2667(h) of this title."
1997—Subsec. (f)(2). Pub. L. 105–85 substituted "section 2667(h)" for "section 2667(g)".
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