37 U.S.C. § 602
Payments: designation of person to receive amounts due
United States · Title 37 — PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES · Status: effective
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- 37 U.S.C. § 602, Payments: designation of person to receive amounts due, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/472502
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Active duty pay and allowances, amounts due for accrued or accumulated leave, or retired or retainer pay, that are otherwise payable to a member to whom this chapter applies and who is mentally incapable of managing his affairs, may be paid for that member’s use or benefit to—
An individual may not be designated under subsection (a)(3) to receive payments unless a board consisting of at least three qualified medical officers or physicians, one of whom is specially qualified in the treatment of mental disorders, determines that the member is mentally incapable of managing the member’s affairs. Any such board shall be appointed from available medical officers or physicians under his jurisdiction by the head of whichever of the following is providing medical treatment for the member, or by a person designated by that head—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- An act to amend title 10, United States Code, to revise and standardize the provisions of law relating to appointment, promotion, separation, and mandatory retirement of regular commissioned officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, to establish the permanent grade of commodore admiral in the Navy, to equalize the treatment of female commissioned officers with that of male commissioned officers, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991House: no recorded tallySenate: 91–8
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017