38 U.S.C. § 7801
Purpose of Veterans’ Canteen Service
The Veterans’ Canteen Service (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the “Service”) in the Department is an instrumentality of the United States, created for the primary purpose of making available to veterans of the Armed Forces who are hospitalized or domiciled in hospitals and homes of the Department, at reasonable prices, articles of merchandise and services essential to their comfort and well-being.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases, 1994–2020 · leading case: Alabama Dep't of Rehab. Servs. v. United States Dep't of Vets. Affairs, 165 F. Supp. 2d 1262 (M.D. Ala. 2001).
Alabama Dep't of Rehab. Servs. v. United States Dep't of Vets. Affairs, 165 F. Supp. 2d 1262 (M.D. Ala. 2001). “The VA, in addition to being subject to the requirements of the Randolph-Sheppard Act, is also subject to the Veterans Canteen Service Act, 38 U.S.C.A. § 7801-10 , which established the VCS to "mak[e] available to veterans .”
Kentucky State Univ. v. Kentucky Dep't for the Blind, 923 S.W.2d 296 (Ky. Ct. App. 1996). “Pertinent to the matter in issue here, however, is the following analysis of an outside agency’s prerogative to exert control over blind vendor’s operations: Finally, we reject the VCS’s contention that the DOE’s permit system interferes with the VCS’s mission to provide…”
Minnesota, Dep't of Jobs & Training v. Riley, 18 F.3d 606 (8th Cir. 1994). “Finally, we reject the VCS’s contention that the DOE’s permit system interferes with the VCS’s mission to provide articles of merchandise to hospitalized veterans at reasonable prices, see 38 U.S.C. § 7801 , and to remain self-sustaining.”
Maryland State Dep't of Educ. v. U.S. Dep't of Vets. Affairs, 98 F.3d 165 (4th Cir. 1996). “38 U.S.C. § 7801 . Pursuant to the VCS, retail stores and canteens are operated by the DVA at its hospitals where deemed "necessary and practicable.”
Mays v. Vet. Canteen Serv. (S.D. Ohio 2020). “Several years ago, she initiated the Equal 1 “VCS is part of the Department of Veteran Affairs and ‘is an instrumentality of the United States, created for the primary purpose of making available to veterans of the Armed Forces who are hospitalized or domiciled in hospitals and…”
Whether Canteen Serv. Provided Through the Vets.' Canteen Serv. Is Exempt From Review Under the Fed. Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (OLC 2003). “See 38 U.S.C. § 7801 (stating that the “primary 1 We note that the FAIR Act might be read to require cost comparisons only when an agency head “considers contracting with a private sector source for the performance of [a listed] activity.”
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