[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 6]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR842.2]

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                        TITLE 32-NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                CHAPTER VII--DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
 
PART 842_ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Information
 
Sec. 842.2  Definitions.

    (a) Authorized agent. Any person or corporation, including a legal 
representative, empowered to act on a claimant's behalf.
    (b) Civilian personnel. Civilian employees of the Air Force who are 
paid from appropriated or nonappropriated funds. They include prisoners 
of war, interned enemy aliens performing paid labor, and volunteer 
workers except for claims under the Military Personnel and Civilian 
Employees' Claims Act.
    (c) Claim. Any signed written demand made on or by the Air Force for 
the payment of a sum certain. It does not include any obligations 
incurred in the regular procurement of services, supplies, equipment, or 
real estate. An oral demand made under Article 139,

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Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) is sufficient.
    (d) Claimant. An individual, partnership, association, corporation, 
country, state, territory, or its political subdivisions, and the 
District of Columbia. The US Government or any of its instrumentalities 
may be a claimant in admiralty, tort, carrier recovery and hospital 
recovery claims in favor of the United States.
    (e) Geographic area of claims responsibility. The base Staff Judge 
Advocate's (SJA's) jurisdiction for claims. CONUS jurisdictional areas 
are designated by HQ USAF/JACC on maps distributed to the field. HQ 
PACAF, HQ USAFE, and HQ 9AF SJAs designate these areas within their 
jurisdictions. DOD assigns areas of single service responsibility to 
each military department.
    (f) HQ USAF/JACC. Claims and Tort Litigation Staff, Office of The 
Judge Advocate General, Headquarters, United States Air Force, Building 
5683, Bolling AFB, DC 20332-6128.
    (g) HQ 9AF. Headquarters Ninth Air Force, Shaw AFB, SC 29152-5002.
    (h) Owner. A holder of a legal title or an equitable interest in 
certain property. Specific examples include:
    (1) For real property. The mortgagor, and the mortgagee if that 
individual can maintain a cause of action in the local courts involving 
a tort to that specific property.
    (2) For personal property. A bailee, lessee, mortgagee and a 
conditional vendee. A mortgagor, conditional vendor, or someone else 
other than the owner, who has the title for purposes of security are not 
owners.
    (i) HQ PACAF. Headquarters, Pacific Air Forces, Hickam AFB, HI 
96853-5001.
    (j) Personal injury. The term ``personal injury'' includes both 
bodily injury and death.
    (k) Property damage. Damage to, loss of, or destruction of real or 
personal property.
    (l) Settle. To consider and pay, or deny a claim in full or in part.
    (m) Single Base General Court-Martial Jurisdiction (GCM). For claims 
purposes, a base legal office serving the commander who exercises GCM 
authority over that base, or that base and other bases.
    (n) Subrogation. The act of assuming the legal rights of another 
after paying a claim or debt, for example, an insurance company 
(subrogee) paying its insured's (subrogor's) claim, thereby assuming the 
insured's right of recovery.
    (o) HQ USAFE. Headquarters, United States Air Forces in Europe, 
Ramstein Air Base, Germany, APO NY 09012-5001.

[55 FR 2809, Jan. 29, 1990, as amended at 56 FR 1574, Jan. 16, 1991]