[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 33CFR13.01-5]



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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

 

         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

 

PART 13_DECORATIONS, MEDALS, RIBBONS AND SIMILAR DEVICES--Table of 

Contents

 

  Subpart 13.01_Gold and Silver Lifesaving Medals, Bars, and Miniatures

 

Sec. 13.01-5  Gold and Silver Lifesaving Medals.



    Lifesaving Medals may be awarded to any person who rescues or 

endeavors to



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rescue any other person from drowning, shipwreck or other peril of the 

water. In order for a person to be eligible for a Lifesaving Medal the 

rescue or attempted rescue must take place in waters within the United 

States or subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or if the rescue or 

attempted rescue takes place outside such waters, one or the other of 

the parties must be a citizen of the United States or from a vessel or 

aircraft owned or operated by citizens of the United States. If such 

rescue or attempted rescue is made at the risk of one's own life and 

evidences extreme and heroic daring, the medal shall be of gold. If such 

rescue or attempted rescue is not sufficiently distinguished to deserve 

the medal of gold but evidences the exercise of such signal exertion as 

to merit recognition, the medal shall be of silver. Lifesaving Medals 

may be awarded posthumously.