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title: "14 U.S.C. § 2777"
description: "Clothing for destitute shipwrecked individuals"
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title_number: 14
title_name: "COAST GUARD"
chapter_number: "27"
chapter_name: "PAY, ALLOWANCES, AWARDS, AND OTHER RIGHTS AND BENEFITS"
section: "2777"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2777"
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# 14 U.S.C. § 2777 - Clothing for destitute shipwrecked individuals
## Text
The Coast Guard may furnish clothing and subsistence to destitute shipwrecked individuals, and the Coast Guard may reimburse, in cash or in kind, Coast Guard personnel who furnish clothing and subsistence to destitute shipwrecked individuals.
(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 534, § 486; renumbered § 2777, Pub. L. 115282, title I, § 116(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4226; Pub. L. 116283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8505(a)(45)(A), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4750.)
## Notes
Historical and Revision NotesBased on title 33, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 749 (July 27, 1912, ch. 255, § 2, 37 Stat. 239; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736). This section was enlarged to provide that the Coast Guard, as well as personnel thereof, may furnish clothing and subsistence to destitute shipwrecked persons. Changes were made in phraseology. 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.
Editorial Notes
Amendments2021—Pub. L. 116283 substituted “individuals” for “persons” in section catchline and in two places in text. 2018—Pub. L. 115282 renumbered section 486 of this title as this section.