{"identifier":"/us/usc/t10/s3131","title":10,"num":"\u00a7\u202f3131.","heading":"Availability of appropriations","text":"\u00a7\u202f3131.\nAvailability of appropriations\n(a) Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for research and development remain available for obligation for a period of two consecutive years.\n(b) Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for research and development may be used\u2014\n(1) for the purposes of\nsection 4141 of this title\n(2) for purposes related to research and development for which expenditures are specifically authorized in other appropriations of the Department of Defense.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t10/s3131.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s3131","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f3131."},{"t":"heading","text":"Availability of appropriations"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s3131/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"content","text":" Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for research and development remain available for obligation for a period of two consecutive years.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s3131/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for research and development may be used\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s3131/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" for the purposes of ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 4141 of this title","href":"/us/usc/t10/s4141","tail":"; and"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s3131/b/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" for purposes related to research and development for which expenditures are specifically authorized in other appropriations of the Department of Defense.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}