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[CITE: 38USC1973]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
                          CHAPTER 19--INSURANCE
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--SERVICEMEMBERS' GROUP LIFE INSURANCE
 
Sec. 1973. 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 Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance 
under this subchapter. No such 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.

(Added Pub. L. 89-214, Sec. 1(a), Sept. 29, 1965, 79 Stat. 885, 
Sec. 773; renumbered Sec. 1973, Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 
105 Stat. 406; amended Pub. L. 104-275, title IV, Sec. 405(b)(1)(F), 
Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3339.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-275 substituted ``Servicemembers' Group'' for 
``Servicemen's Group''.
    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 773 of this title as this 
section.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1979 of this title.
