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[CITE: 10USC1131]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                   CHAPTER 57--DECORATIONS AND AWARDS
 
Sec. 1131. Purple Heart: limitation to members of the armed 
        forces
        
    The decoration known as the Purple Heart (authorized to be awarded 
pursuant to Executive Order 11016) may only be awarded to a person who 
is a member of the armed forces at the time the person is killed or 
wounded under circumstances otherwise qualifying that person for award 
of the Purple Heart.

(Added Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title V, Sec. 571(a)(1), Nov. 18, 1997, 
111 Stat. 1756.)

                       References in Text

    Executive Order 11016, referred to in text, is not classified to the 
Code.


                             Effective Date

    Section 571(b) of Pub. L. 105-85 provided that: ``Section 1131 of 
title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply 
with respect to persons who are killed or wounded after the end of the 
180-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 
18, 1997].''
