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[CITE: 10USC655]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER 37--GENERAL SERVICE REQUIREMENTS
 
Sec. 655. Designation of persons having interest in status of a 
        missing member
        
    (a) The Secretary concerned shall, upon the enlistment or 
appointment of a person in the armed forces, require that the person 
specify in writing the person or persons, if any, other than that 
person's primary next of kin or immediate family, to whom information on 
the whereabouts and status of the member shall be provided if such 
whereabouts and status are investigated under chapter 76 of this title. 
The Secretary shall periodically, and whenever the member is deployed as 
part of a contingency operation or in other circumstances specified by 
the Secretary, require that such designation be reconfirmed, or 
modified, by the member.
    (b) The Secretary concerned shall, upon the request of a member, 
permit the member to revise the person or persons specified by the 
member under subsection (a) at any time. Any such revision shall be in 
writing.

(Added Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title V, Sec. 569(d)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 
110 Stat. 352.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1513 of this title.
