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type: "LegalText"
title: "10 U.S.C. § 9777"
description: "Permits: military reservations; landing ferries, erecting bridges, driving livestock"
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title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
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section: "9777"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 9777"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 10 U.S.C. § 9777 - Permits: military reservations; landing ferries, erecting bridges, driving livestock

## Text

Whenever the Secretary of the Air Force considers that it can be done without injury to the reservation or inconvenience to the military forces stationed there, he may permit—

(1) the landing of ferries at a military reservation;

(2) the erection of bridges on a military reservation; and

(3) the driving of livestock across a military reservation.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 591.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 977710:1348.July 5, 1884, ch. 214, § 6, 23 Stat. 104. The words “may permit” are substituted for the words “shall have authority, in his discretion, to permit”. The words “to permit the extension of State, county, and Territorial roads across military reservations” are omitted as superseded by section 2668 of this title. In clause (3), the word “livestock” is substituted for the words “cattle, sheep or other stock animals”.