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Raw OLRC USLM XML zips @ release 119-100 (retrieved 2026-07-04 via Atlas depot), ingested with the standard pipeline: raw snapshot -> per-section OKF markdown -> manifest + checksums. Title 52 untouched. LegalText: 171 -> 11,221. Titles 12-54 await a clean OLRC retry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "10 U.S.C. § 1479"
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description: "Death gratuity: delegation of determinations, payments"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 10
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title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
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chapter_number: "75"
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chapter_name: "DECEASED PERSONNEL"
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section: "1479"
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citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1479"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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# 10 U.S.C. § 1479 - Death gratuity: delegation of determinations, payments
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## Text
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For the purpose of making immediate payments under section 1475 of this title, the Secretary concerned shall—
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(1) authorize the commanding officer of a territorial command, installation, or district in which a survivor of a person covered by that section is residing to determine the beneficiary eligible for the death gratuity; and
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(2) authorize a disbursing or certifying official of each of those commands, installations, or districts to make the payments to the beneficiary, or certify the payments due them, as the case may be.
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(Added Pub. L. 85–861, § 1(32)(A), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1455; amended Pub. L. 97–258, § 2(b)(1)(A), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1052.)
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## Notes
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Historical and Revision Notes Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 147938:1132.Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 837, § 302, 70 Stat. 868. The word “territorial” is substituted for the words “military or naval”, since the subsection could only apply to that type of command, installation, or district. Clause (2) is substituted for 38:1132(2).
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Editorial Notes
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Amendments1982—Par. (2). Pub. L. 97–258 substituted “official” for “officer”.
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