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[CITE: 10USC6031]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                       CHAPTER 555--ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 6031. Chaplains: divine services

    (a) An officer in the Chaplain Corps may conduct public worship 
according to the manner and forms of the church of which he is a member.
    (b) The commanders of vessels and naval activities to which 
chaplains are attached shall cause divine service to be performed on 
Sunday, whenever the weather and other circumstances allow it to be 
done; and it is earnestly recommended to all officers, seamen, and 
others in the naval service diligently to attend at every performance of 
the worship of Almighty God.
    (c) All persons in the Navy and in the Marine Corps are enjoined to 
behave themselves in a reverent and becoming manner during divine 
service.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 378; Pub. L. 86-140, Aug. 7, 1959, 
73 Stat. 288.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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6031(a)...............................  34 U.S.C. 95.                        R.
S. 1397.
6031(b)...............................  34 U.S.C. 266 (1st sentence).        Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  7(d),
                                                                              6
4 Stat. 146.
6031(c)...............................  34 U.S.C. 266 (2d sentence).         Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  7(e),
                                                                              6
4 Stat. 146.
6031(d)...............................  34 U.S.C. 96.                        R.
S. 1398.
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    In subsection (c) the words ``and in the Marine Corps'' are added to 
execute the definition of ``Navy'' in section 1, article 1, of the Act 
of May 5, 1950, ch. 169, 64 Stat. 146.


                               Amendments

    1959--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 86-140 repealed subsec. (d) which 
required each chaplain to report annually to the Secretary of the Navy 
the official services performed by him.
