10 U.S.C. § 8300 — Posthumous awards
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If a person who qualifies for an award dies before it is made, the award and its medal, cross, bar, emblem, or insignia may be presented within five years after the qualifying act or service to the representative designated by the President.
If a person who qualifies for an award dies before it is made, the award and its medal, cross, bar, emblem, or insignia may be presented within five years after the qualifying act or service to the representative designated by the President.
If a person who distinguishes himself dies before an award to which he is entitled is made, the award may be made and the medal, cross, or bar, or associated emblem or insignia may be presented, within five years from the date of the act or service justifying the award, to his representative as designated by the President.
Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 390, § 6250; renumbered § 8300, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(b)(13), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)
- 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
- 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-232 · 132 Stat. 1836
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