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[CITE: 10USC6251]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                   CHAPTER 567--DECORATIONS AND AWARDS
 
Sec. 6251. Delegation of power to award

    The President may delegate, under such conditions as he prescribes, 
to flag and general officers who are commanders-in-chief or commanding 
on important independent duty, his authority to award the Navy cross, 
the distinguished-service medal, the silver star medal, or the Navy and 
Marine Corps Medal.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 391.)

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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6251..................................  34 U.S.C. 364 (less 10th, and last   Fe
b. 4, 1919, ch. 14, Sec.  9 (less
                                         47 words).                           a
pplicability to regulations), 40
                                                                              S
tat. 1057; renumbered Sec.  11
                                                                              a
nd amended Aug. 7, 1942, ch. 551,
                                                                              S
ec.  1, 56 Stat. 745.
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    The term ``flag officers'' is used generically in 34 U.S.C. 364. 
Officers of the Marine Corps who meet the duty requirements, if in the 
equivalent grades, are, therefore, within its terms and the authority to 
make the awards has been delegated to such officers.
