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Code · U.S. Code · Title 10 - ARMED FORCES · CHAPTER 57— DECORATIONS AND AWARDS · § 1131

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§ 1131. Purple Heart: limitation to members of the armed forces

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The decoration known as the Purple Heart (authorized to be awarded pursuant to Executive Order 11016) may only be awarded to a person who is a member of the armed forces at the time the person is killed or wounded under circumstances otherwise qualifying that person for award of the Purple Heart.

(Added Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title V, § 571(a)(1), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1756.)

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Public Law 105–85
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes

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Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title V, § 571(a)(1)
111 Stat. 1756
Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title V, § 571(b)

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