---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2209"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2209"
heading: "Management funds"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2209"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 131 — Planning and Coordination"
---

# §2209. Management funds

- (a) To conduct economically and efficiently the operations of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense that are financed by at least two appropriations but whose costs cannot be immediately distributed and charged to those appropriations, there is the [Army](/usc/10/7001.md) Management [Fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6), the Navy Management [Fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6), and the Air Force Management [Fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6), each within its respective [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) and under the direction of the Secretary of that [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6). Each such [fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) shall consist of a corpus of $1,000,000 and such amounts as may be appropriated thereto from time to time. An account for an operation that is to be financed by such a [fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) may be established only with the approval of the Secretary of Defense.
- (b) Under such regulations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe, expenditures may be made from a management [fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) for material (other than for stock), personal services, and services under contract. However, obligation may not be incurred against that [fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) if it is not chargeable to [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) available under an appropriation of the [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned or [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) of another [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) or [agency](/usc/10/4701.md?p=g-1) of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense. The [fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) shall be promptly reimbursed from those [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) for expenditures made from it.
- (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, advances, by check or warrant, or reimbursements, may be made from available appropriations to a management [fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) on the basis of the estimated cost of a project. As adequate data becomes available, the estimated cost shall be revised and necessary adjustments made. Final adjustment shall be made with the appropriate [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) for the fiscal year in which the advances or reimbursements are made. Except as otherwise provided by law, amounts advanced to management [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) are available for obligation only during the fiscal year in which they are advanced.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 87–651, title II, § 207(a), Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 522.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 2209(a)<br>2209(b)<br>2209(c) | 5:172e(a), (b).<br>5:172e(c) (last sentence).<br>5:172e(c) (less last sentence).<br>5:172e(d). | July 3, 1942, ch. 484; restated Aug. 10, 1949, ch. 412, § 11 (16th through 19th pars.), 63 Stat. 588. |

In subsection (a), the second sentence is substituted for the second sentence of 5 U.S.C. 172e(a) and the first sentence (less last 21 words) of 5 U.S.C. 172e(b) which are omitted as unnecessary.

In subsection (c), the 13th through 33d words of 5 U.S.C. 172e(d) are omitted as surplusage.