2017 US Code
Title 10 - Armed Forces
Subtitle D - Air Force
Part IV - Service, Supply, and Procurement
Chapter 935 - Issue of Serviceable Material to Armed Forces
Sec. 9565 - Colors, standards, and guidons of demobilized organizations: disposition

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Citation 10 U.S.C. § 9565 (2017)
Section Name §9565. Colors, standards, and guidons of demobilized organizations: disposition
Section Text

(a) The Secretary of the Air Force may dispose of colors, standards, and guidons of demobilized organizations of the Air Force, as follows:

(1) Those brought into Federal service by the Air National Guard of a State may be returned to that State upon the request of its governor.

(2) Those that cannot be returned under clause (1) may, upon the request of its governor, be sent to the State that, as determined by the Secretary, furnished the majority of members of the organization when it was formed.


Those that cannot be returned or sent under clause (1) or (2) of this subsection shall be delivered to the Secretary, for such national use as he may direct.

(b) Title to colors, standards, and guidons of demobilized organizations of the Air Force remains in the United States.

(c) No color, standard, or guidon may be disposed of under this section unless provision satisfactory to the Secretary has been made for its preservation and care.

Source Credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 578.)

Editorial Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
9565(a) 5:202 (less 3d and last sentences). Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 166, §2, 41 Stat. 1438.
9565(b) 5:202 (3d sentence).
9565(c) 5:202 (last sentence).

In subsection (a), the words "Any which were used during their service by such organizations and" are omitted as surplusage. The first 15 words of the last sentence are substituted for 5:202 (1st 45 words of 2d sentence). The words "the Quartermaster General" are omitted, since the functions which, for the Army, are assigned by statute to subordinate officers of the Army, are, for the Air Force, assigned to the Secretary of the Air Force.

Publication Title United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 10 - ARMED FORCES
Category Bills and Statutes
Collection United States Code
SuDoc Class Number Y 1.2/5:
Contained Within Title 10 - ARMED FORCES
Subtitle D - Air Force
PART IV - SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
CHAPTER 935 - ISSUE OF SERVICEABLE MATERIAL TO ARMED FORCES
Sec. 9565 - Colors, standards, and guidons of demobilized organizations: disposition
Contains section 9565
Date 2017
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 12, 2018
Positive Law Yes
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large References 41 Stat. 1438
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