[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: 32CFR842.22]

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                        TITLE 32-NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                CHAPTER VII--DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
 
PART 842_ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart D_Personnel Claims (31 U.S.C. 3701, 3721)
 
Sec. 842.22  Definitions.

    (a) Act of God. An act occasioned exclusively by violence of nature, 
such as flood, earthquake, tornado, typhoon or hurricane, that is 
unanticipated and over which no one has any control.
    (b) Military installation. A facility used to serve a military 
purpose and used or controlled by the Air Force or any other Department 
of Defense (DOD) element.
    (c) Other authorized places: (1) Any place authorized, or apparently 
authorized by the government to receive, hold, or store personal 
property, such as offices, warehouses, baggage holding areas, hospitals.
    (2) Any area on a military installation designated for parking or 
storing vehicles.
    (3) A recreation area or any real estate the Air Force or any other 
DOD element uses or controls.
    (d) Personal property. Tangible property an individual owns, 
including but not limited to household goods, unaccompanied baggage, 
privately owned vehicles (POV), and mobile homes.
    (e) Quarters: (1) Housing the government assigns or otherwise 
provides in kind to the claimant, including substandard housing and 
trailers, when the claimant pays the government a

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fixed rental while drawing basic allowance for quarters (BAQ).
    (2) Privately owned mobile or manufactured homes parked on base in 
spaces the government provides.
    (3) Transient housing accommodations, wherever located, such as, 
hotels, motels, guest houses, transient dormitories, or other lodgings 
the government furnishes or contracts for.
    (4) Housing accommodations outside the United States which the 
claimant occupies according to local policies and procedures which were 
not assigned by or otherwise provided for by the U.S. Government. 
Quarters do not include housing occupied by foreign indigenous 
employees.
    (5) Garages, carports, driveways, and parking lots assigned to 
quarters the government provides for the occupants of the quarters to 
use.
    (6) Street parking:
    (i) At quarters.
    (ii) In the immediate vicinity of quarters.
    (iii) Reserved parking assigned to offbase housing accommodations 
overseas.
    (7) The area immediately adjacent to quarters when used for storage 
of items not commonly stored in living areas, for example, boats, 
motorcycles, motorbikes, bicycles, lawn mowers, garden equipment, and 
outdoor furniture.
    (f) Reconsideration. The original or a higher settlement authority's 
review of a prior settlement action.
    (g) Small claim. A claim for $1,000 or less.
    (h) Unusual Occurrence. Something not expected to happen in the 
normal course of events.