2017 US Code
Title 14 - Coast Guard
Part I - Regular Coast Guard
Chapter 13 - Pay, Allowances, Awards, and Other Rights and Benefits
Sec. 497 - Honorable subsequent service as condition to award
| 14 U.S.C. § 497 (2017) |
| §497. Honorable subsequent service as condition to award |
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No medal of honor, Coast Guard cross, distinguished service medal, silver star medal, distinguished flying cross, Coast Guard medal, or emblem, or insignia in lieu thereof shall be awarded or presented to any individual, or to the representative of any individual, whose entire service subsequent to the time he distinguished himself shall not in the opinion of the Commandant have been honorable. |
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(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 536; Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, §13, 70A Stat. 624; Pub. L. 111–281, title II, §224(c)(3), Oct. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 2922.) |
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HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
This section makes honorable service subsequent to the act for which award is made, a condition precedent to granting the award. The Navy has the same statutory condition (see title 34, U.S.C., 1946 ed., §362). 81st Congress, House Report No. 557. AMENDMENTS2010—Pub. L. 111–281 substituted "Coast Guard cross, distinguished service medal, silver star medal, distinguished flying cross," for "distinguished service medal, distinguished flying cross,". 1956—Act Aug. 10, 1956, included the distinguished flying cross. |
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| Title 14 - COAST GUARD PART I - REGULAR COAST GUARD CHAPTER 13 - PAY, ALLOWANCES, AWARDS, AND OTHER RIGHTS AND BENEFITS Sec. 497 - Honorable subsequent service as condition to award |
| section 497 |
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| January 12, 2018 |
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| 63 Stat. 536 124 Stat. 2922 |
| Public Law 111-281 |
