Notice: The uscode.house.gov website is currently operating in a temporary format. While the United States Code remains available from its authoritative source, some website features and functionality are temporarily unavailable.
The United States Code Online is current through Public Law 119-120 (October 7, 2026).
Search & Browse Currency and Updating Classification Tables Popular Name Tool Positive Law Codification Editorial Reclassification Downloads
10 U.S.C. 9842: Settlement of accounts of line officersText contains those laws in effect through Public Law 119-120 (October 7, 2026).
From Title 10-ARMED FORCESCHAPTER 983-ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
Jump To: Source CreditHistorical and Revision NotesEditorial NotesAmendments

§9842. Settlement of accounts of line officers

The Comptroller General shall settle the account of a line officer of the Air Force or the Space Force for pay due the officer even if the officer cannot account for property entrusted to the officer or cannot make a monthly report or return, when the Comptroller General is satisfied that the inability to account for property or make a report or return was the result of the officer having been a prisoner, or of an accident or casualty of war.

(Added Pub. L. 97–258, § 2(b)(14)(B) , Sept. 13, 1982 , 96 Stat. 1058 ; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 923(e)(25) , Jan. 1, 2021 , 134 Stat. 3820 .)

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised section

Source (U.S. Code)

Source (Statutes at Large)

9842

31:44 (1st sentence).

June 10, 1921, ch. 18, § 304 (1st par. 1st sentence), 42 Stat. 24.

 

31:95.

R.S. § 278.

The section is made applicable to the Air Force by section 207(a) and (f) of the Act of July 26, 1947 (ch. 343, 61 Stat. 502). For comparable provisions that apply to the Army, see the revision note for 10:4842.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2021⁠—Pub. L. 116–283 inserted “or the Space Force” after “Air Force”.