---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 710"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "710"
heading: "Cremation urns for military use"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/710"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 33 — Emblems, Insignia, and Names"
---

# §710. Cremation urns for military use


[Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1) knowingly uses, manufactures, or sells any cremation urn of a design approved by the Secretary of Defense for use to retain the cremated remains of deceased [members](/usc/18/1093.md?p=4) of the armed forces or an urn which is a colorable imitation of the approved design, except when authorized under regulation made pursuant to law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.


## Source credit

(Added Sept. 28, 1950, ch. 1092, § 1(b), 64 Stat. 1077; amended Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(E), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $250”.