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[CITE: 38USC1909]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
                          CHAPTER 19--INSURANCE
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE
 
Sec. 1909. Effective date of insurance

    Insurance may be made effective, as specified in the application, 
not later than the first day of the calendar month following the date of 
application therefor, but the United States shall not be liable 
thereunder for death occurring before such effective date.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1149, Sec. 709; renumbered 
Sec. 1909, Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 709 of this title as this 
section.
