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[CITE: 38USC1954]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
                          CHAPTER 19--INSURANCE
 
         SUBCHAPTER II--UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE
 
Sec. 1954. Forfeiture

    No yearly renewable term insurance or United States Government life 
insurance shall be payable for death inflicted as a lawful punishment 
for crime or military offense, except when inflicted by the enemy. In 
such cases the cash surrender value of United States Government life 
insurance, if any, on the date of such death shall be paid to the 
designated beneficiary if living, or if there be no designated 
beneficiary alive at the death of the insured the said value shall be 
paid to the estate of the insured.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1161, Sec. 754; renumbered 
Sec. 1954, Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 754 of this title as this 
section.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1947 of this title.
