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Title 24USC / Chapter VII

Chapter 7 National Cemeteries

§281 Persons to be buried in national cemeteries

All soldiers, sailors or marines and all officers or men of the Coast Guard dying in the service of the United States, or dying in a destitute condition after having been honorably discharged from the service, and all soldiers, sailors, or marines who served, or may serve, during any war in which the United States has been, or may be, engaged, and, with the consent of the Director of National Park Service any citizen of the United States who served in the army or navy of any government at war with Germany or Austria during the World War and who died while in such service or after honorable discharge therefrom, may be buried in any national cemetery free of cost. The production of the honorable discharge of a deceased man in the first or second case, and a duly executed permit of the Director of National Park Service in the last case, shall be sufficient authority for the superintendent of any cemetery to permit the interment. Army nurses honorably discharged from their service as such may be buried in any national cemetery, and if in a destitute condition, free of cost. The Director of National Park Service is authorized to issue certificates to those Army nurses entitled to such burial. Persons who were members of the Cabinet of the President of the United States at any time during the period between April 6, 1917 and November 11, 1918, may be buried in any national cemetery: Provided, That the interment is without cost to the United States.

(R.S. 4878; derived from July 17, 1862, ch. 200, §18, 12 Stat. 596; June 1, 1872, ch. 257, 17 Stat. 202; Mart. 3, 1873, ch. 276, 17 Stat. 605; May 14, 1948, ch. 289, §1, 62 Stat. 234; Sept. 14, 1959, Pub. L. 86–260, 73 Stat. 547; Repealed. Pub. L. 93–43, §7(a)(6), (8), (10)–(12), (60), June 18, 1973, 87 Stat. 82, 88; eff. Sept. 1, 1973; See section 2402 of Title 38, Veterans' Benefits)