---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2733"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2733"
heading: "Medal of honor: duplicate medal"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2733"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 27 — Pay, Allowances, Awards, and Other Rights and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter II — Awards"
---

# §2733. Medal of honor: duplicate medal


An individual awarded a medal of honor shall, upon written application of that individual, be issued, without charge, one duplicate medal of honor with ribbons and appurtenances. Such duplicate medal of honor shall be marked, in such manner as the Secretary may determine, as a duplicate or for display purposes only.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title V, § 553(d)(1)(A), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1116, § 504; renumbered § 2733, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 116(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4226; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8505(a)(26), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4749.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “An individual” for “A person” and “that individual” for “that person”.

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 504 of this title as this section.