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[CITE: 38USC1911]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
                          CHAPTER 19--INSURANCE
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE
 
Sec. 1911. Forfeiture

    Any person guilty of mutiny, treason, spying, or desertion, or who, 
because of conscientious objections, refuses to perform service in the 
Armed Forces of the United States or refuses to wear the uniform of such 
force, shall forfeit all rights to National Service Life Insurance. No 
insurance shall be payable for death inflicted as a lawful punishment 
for crime or for military or naval offense, except when inflicted by an 
enemy of the United States; but the cash surrender value, if any, of 
such insurance on the date of such death shall be paid to the designated 
beneficiary, if living, or otherwise to the beneficiary or beneficiaries 
within the permitted class in accordance with the order specified in 
section 1916(b) of this title.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1150, Sec. 711; renumbered 
Sec. 1911 and amended Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), (c)(1), Aug. 6, 1991, 
105 Stat. 406.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 711 of this title as this 
section and substituted ``1916(b)'' for ``716(b)''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1910 of this title.
