(1) authorize the commanding officer of a territorial command, installation, or district in which a survivor of a person covered by that section is residing to determine the beneficiary eligible for the death gratuity; and
(2) authorize a disbursing or certifying official of each of those commands, installations, or districts to make the payments to the beneficiary, or certify the payments due them, as the case may be.
Structure US Code
Subtitle A— General Military Law
CHAPTER 75— DECEASED PERSONNEL
§ 1476. Death gratuity: death after discharge or release from duty or training
§ 1477. Death gratuity: eligible survivors
§ 1478. Death gratuity: amount
§ 1479. Death gratuity: delegation of determinations, payments
§ 1480. Death gratuity: miscellaneous provisions
§ 1481. Recovery, care, and disposition of remains: decedents covered
§ 1482. Expenses incident to death
§ 1482a. Expenses incident to death: civilian employees serving with an armed force
§ 1483. Prisoners of war and interned enemy aliens
§ 1484. Pensioners, indigent patients, and persons who die on military reservations
§ 1485. Dependents of members of armed forces
§ 1486. Other citizens of United States