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[CITE: 10USC1132]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                   CHAPTER 57--DECORATIONS AND AWARDS
 
Sec. 1132. Presentation of decorations: prohibition on entering 
        correctional facilities for presentation to prisoners convicted 
        of serious violent felonies
        
    (a) Prohibition.--A member of the armed forces may not enter a 
Federal, State, local, or foreign correctional facility to present a 
decoration to a person who is incarcerated due to conviction of a 
serious violent felony.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
        (1) The term ``decoration'' means any decoration or award that 
    may be presented or awarded to a member of the armed forces.
        (2) The term ``serious violent felony'' has the meaning given 
    that term in section 3559(c)(2)(F) of title 18.

(Added Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, title V, Sec. 537(a), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 
Stat. 2019.)
