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[CITE: 10USC6253]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                   CHAPTER 567--DECORATIONS AND AWARDS
 
Sec. 6253. Replacement

    The Secretary of the Navy may replace without charge any medal of 
honor, Navy cross, distinguished-service medal, silver star medal, or 
Navy and Marine Corps Medal, or any associated bar, emblem, or insignia 
awarded under this chapter that is lost or destroyed or becomes unfit 
for use without fault or neglect on the part of the person to whom it 
was awarded.

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

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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6253..................................  34 U.S.C. 359 (proviso).             Fe
b. 4, 1919, ch. 14, Sec.  6
                                                                              (
proviso), 40 Stat. 1056;
                                                                              r
enumbered Sec.  8 and amended
                                                                              A
ug. 7, 1942, ch. 551, Sec.  1, 56
                                                                              S
tat. 744.
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    The words ``Secretary of the Navy may replace'' are substituted for 
the words ``Provided, That such replacement shall be made only in those 
cases where''.
