administrative provisions

administrative provisions Sec. 304. (a) No payment shall be made under this title if the deceased member of a uniformed service suffered death as a result of lawful punishment for crime or for a military or naval offense, except when death was so inflicted by any hostile force with which the Armed Forces of the United States have engaged in armed conflict. (b) Payments under this title shall be made from appropriations available for the pay of members of the uniformed service concerned. (c) A member of a reserve component of a uniformed service who performs active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training, without pay, snail, for the purposes of this title only, be considered as having been entitled to basic pay while performing such duties. In the case of a member of a reserve component of a uniformed service who suffers disability while on active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training, and is placed in a pay status while he is receiving hospitalization or medical care (including out-patient care) for such disability, he shall be deemed, for the purposes of this title, to continue on active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training, as the case may be, for so long as he remains in a pay status. (d) For purposes of this title, a man or woman shall be considered to be the spouse of a member of a uniformed service if legally married to the member of a uniformed service at the time of the member’s death.