---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1524"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1524"
heading: "Posthumous commissions and warrants: determination of date of death"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1524"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 77 — Posthumous Commissions and Warrants"
---

# §1524. Posthumous commissions and warrants: determination of date of death


For the purposes of sections [1521](/usc/10/1521.md) and [1522](/usc/10/1522.md) of this title, in any case where the date of death is established or determined under [section 551–558 of title 37](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(/us/usc/t37/s551–558)), the date of death is the date the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) receives evidence that the [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) is dead, or the date the finding of death is made under [section 555 of title 37](/usc/37/555.md).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 89–718, § 12(a)(1), Nov. 2, 1966, 80 Stat. 1117.)