---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 725.231"
title: "20"
number: "725.231"
heading: "Domicile."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/725.231"
---

# §725.231. Domicile.

- (a) For purposes of this subpart, the term “domicile” means the place of an individual's true, fixed, and permanent home.
- (b) **The domicile of a deceased miner or surviving spouse is determined as of the time of death.**
- (c) If an individual was not domiciled in any State at the pertinent time, the law of the District of Columbia is applied.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174; 30 U.S.C. 901 et seq., 902(f), 921, 932, 936; 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 405; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 80054, Dec. 20, 2000, unless otherwise noted.