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[CITE: 10USC1484]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                     CHAPTER 75--DECEASED PERSONNEL
 
                      SUBCHAPTER II--DEATH BENEFITS
 
Sec. 1484. Pensioners, indigent patients, and persons who die on 
        military reservations
        
    If proper disposition of the remains cannot otherwise be made, the 
Secretary concerned may provide for the care and disposition of the 
remains of pensioners and indigent patients who die in hospitals 
operated by his department and of persons who die on the military 
reservations of that department and, incident thereto, pay the necessary 
expenses of--
        (1) notification to the next of kin or other appropriate person;
        (2) preparation of the remains for burial, including cremation;
        (3) furnishing of clothing;
        (4) furnishing of a casket or urn, or both, with outside box;
        (5) transportation of the remains to a cemetery selected by the 
    Secretary; and
        (6) interment of the remains.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 114.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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1484..................................  5:2156 (as applicable to armed       Ju
ly 15, 1954, ch. 507, Sec.  6 (as
                                         forces).                             a
pplicable to armed forces), 68
                                                                              S
tat. 479.
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    The words ``If proper disposition of the remains cannot otherwise be 
made'' are substituted for 5:2156 (last sentence). The words 
``maintained and'' and ``incurred for'', and the words ``articles of'' 
in clause (3), are omitted as surplusage. The words ``of that 
department'' are inserted for clarity.
