Pub. L. 85-241, tit. I, sec. 407

Sec. 407. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service, with dependents, may occupy on a rental basis, without loss of basic allowance for quarters, inadequate quarters under the jurisdiction of any of the uniformed services, notwithstanding that such quarters may nave been constructed or converted for assignment as public quarters. The net difference between the basic allowance for quarters and the fair rental value of such quarters shall be paid from otherwise available appropriations. (b) The provisions of this section shall be administered under regulations approved by the President. (c) The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force for the respective military departments, the Secretary of the Treasury for the Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is operating as a service in the Treasury Department, the Secretary of Commerce for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for the Public Health Service (hereafter referred to as the “Secretaries”), are each authorized, subject to standards established pursuant to (b) above, to designate as rental housing such housing as he may determine to be inadequate as public quarters. 71 Stat. 557 (d) The Secretaries are each further authorized, subject to standards established pursuant to subsection (b) above, to lease inadequate housing to personnel of any of the mentioned services for occupancy by them and their dependents. The housing facilities leased, as herein provided, shall not be required to have been constructed with funds derived from appropriations specifically made for the purpose of the construction of rental housing for personnel of the services mentioned. (e) All housing units determined pursuant to subsection (c) of this section to be inadequate shall, prior to July 1, 1960, either be altered or improved so as to qualify as public quarters, or be demolished or otherwise disposed of. (f) This section shall have no application to any housing financed with mortgages insured under the provisions of Title VIII of the National Housing Act as in effect prior to the enactment of the Housing Amendments of 1955.