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[CITE: 10USC6250]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                   CHAPTER 567--DECORATIONS AND AWARDS
 
Sec. 6250. Posthumous awards

    If a person who distinguishes himself dies before an award to which 
he is entitled is made, the award may be made and the medal, cross, or 
bar, or associated emblem or insignia may be presented, within five 
years from the date of the act or service justifying the award, to his 
representative as designated by the President.

(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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6250..................................  34 U.S.C. 363.                       Fe
b. 4, 1919, ch. 14, Sec.  8 (less
                                                                              1
st and 2d provisos), 40 Stat.
                                                                              1
057; renumbered Sec.  10 and
                                                                              a
mended Aug. 7, 1942, ch. 551,
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ec.  1, 56 Stat. 745.
                                        34 U.S.C. 364a (3d sentence, less    Ju
ly 2, 1926, ch. 721, Sec.  12 (3d
                                         last 31 words).                      s
entence, less last 31 words), 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.
