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[CITE: 10USC771]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                         CHAPTER 45--THE UNIFORM
 
Sec. 771. Unauthorized wearing prohibited

    Except as otherwise provided by law, no person except a member of 
the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, as the case may be, may 
wear--
        (1) the uniform, or a distinctive part of the uniform, of the 
    Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps; or
        (2) a uniform any part of which is similar to a distinctive part 
    of the uniform of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 34.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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771...................................  10:1393 (1st par., less provisos).   Ju
ne 3, 1916, ch. 134, Sec.  125
                                                                              (
1st par., less provisos), 39
                                                                              S
tat. 216.
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    The words ``Except as otherwise provided by law'' are inserted to 
give effect to exceptions in other revised sections of this title and to 
provisions of other laws giving such organizations as the Coast and 
Geodetic Survey and the Public Health Service permission to wear 
military uniforms under certain conditions.
