[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR72.23]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 72--DEATHS AND ESTATES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 72.23  Responsibility in case of Department of Defense personnel.

    The Department of Defense is required, in the absence of a legal 
representative or other authorized person (see Secs. 72.18 and 72.19), 
to assume responsibility for the disposition of the personal estates of 
its military and civilian personnel who have died abroad. However, when 
no representative of the Department of Defense, or other authorized 
person, is present at the time of death, the consular officer should 
take possession of the personal estate and hold it for disposition in 
accordance with instructions from the Department of Defense. No fee 
should be charged for services so rendered (Sec. 72.54). Instructions in 
this section do not apply to the personal estates of dependents of 
Department of Defense personnel; nor to contractor personnel, i.e., 
United States civilians employed in foreign countries by commercial 
concerns operating under contract with the Department of Defense, and 
their dependents. The estates of such persons should be disposed of in 
the manner prescribed by Secs. 72.28 to 72.51, if no legal 
representative is present.