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[CITE: 10USC6249]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                   CHAPTER 567--DECORATIONS AND AWARDS
 
Sec. 6249. Limitation of honorable service

    No medal, cross, or bar, or associated emblem or insignia may be 
awarded or presented to any person or to his representative if his 
service after he distinguished himself has not been honorable.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 390.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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6249..................................  34 U.S.C. 362.                       Fe
b. 4, 1919, ch. 14, Sec.  8 (1st
                                                                              p
roviso), 40 Stat. 1057;
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enumbered Sec.  10 and amended
                                                                              A
ug. 7, 1942, ch. 551, Sec.  1, 56
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tat. 745.
                                        34 U.S.C. 364a (last 31 words of 3d  Ju
ly 2, 1926, ch. 721, Sec.  12
                                         sentence).                           (
last 31 words of 3d sentence), 44
                                                                              S
tat. 789, July 30, 1937, ch. 545,
                                                                              S
ec.  4, 50 Stat. 549.
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    The word ``associated'' is substituted for the word ``other'' to 
relate the medal or cross to its emblem or insignia. The word ``entire'' 
is omitted as surplusage.
