TITLE III-PROVISIONS RELATING TO ALLOWANCES
BASIC ALLOWANCE FOR SUBSISTENCE
SEC. 301. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section or by any other provision of law, each member of the uniformed services entitled to receive basic pay shall be entitled to receive a basic allowance for subsistence in such amount and under such circumstances as are provided in this section. For enlisted persons such allowance shall be one of three types: (1) When rations in kind are not available; (2) when permission to mess separately is granted; or (3) when assigned to duty under emergency conditions where no Government messing facilities are available. Officers shall, at all times, be entitled to receive a basic allowance for subsistence on a monthly basis. Enlisted persons shall be entitled to the appropriate allowance on a daily basis.
(b) Enlisted persons shall be entitled to receive the appropriate basic allowance for subsistence while on an authorized leave of absence or while sick in hospital: Provided, That any such allowance shall not accrue when such persons are, in fact, being subsisted at Government expense.
(c) Payment of the basic allowance for subsistence, when authorized, may be made to enlisted persons in advance for a period of not exceeding three months.
(d) The President may prescribe regulations for the administration of this section.
(e) Members of the uniformed services entitled to receive a basic allowance for subsistence pursuant to this section shall be entitled to receive the following amounts:
Placeholder: the following verbiage in the law is the basic allowance for subsistence (BAS) pay rates for officer and enlisted personnel. To save space and duplication on this Web site, the pay chart that would normally be found here, is here: 1950 BAS.
BASIC ALLOWANCE FOR QUARTERS
SEC. 302. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section or by any other provision of law, members of the uniformed services entitled to receive basic pay shall be entitled to receive a basic allowance for quarters in such amount and under such circumstances as are provided in this section: Provided, That an enlisted member in pay grade E-4 (less than seven years' service), E-3, E-2, and E-1, shall be considered at all times as a member without dependents for the purposes of this section.
(b) Except as otherwise provided by law no basic allowance for quarters shall accrue to members of the uniformed services assigned to Government quarters or housing facilities under the jurisdiction of the uniformed services, appropriate to their rank, grade, or rating and adequate for themselves and dependents, if with dependents.
(c) No basic allowance for quarters shall accrue to any member of the uniformed services without dependents while on field duty, unless his commanding officer certifies that he was necessarily required to procure quarters at his own expense, or while on sea duty: Provided, That field duty or sea duty for temporary periods of less than three months shall not be considered as field duty or sea duty for purposes of this subsection.
(d) No member of the uniformed services assigned to Government quarters or housing facilities under the jurisdiction of the uniformed services shall be denied his basic allowance for quarters if, by reason of orders of competent authority, his dependents are prevented from occupying such quarters.
(e) The President may prescribe regulations for the administration of this section, and such regulations shall include, but not be limited to, definitions of the terms "field duty" and "sea duty".
(f) Members of the uniformed services entitled to receive a basic allowance for quarters pursuant to this section shall be entitled to receive a basic allowance for quarters at the following monthly rates according to the pay grade to which assigned or in which distributed for basic pay purposes:
Placeholder: the following verbiage in the law is the basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) chart for officer and enlisted personnel. To save space and duplication on this Web site, the BAQ chart that would normally be found here, is here: 1950 Basic Allowance for Quarters.
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