[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR10.3]

[Page 534]
 
            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 10_ADJUSTED COMPENSATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 10.3  Issuance of duplicate adjusted service certificate with bond.

    An indemnity bond will be required as a prerequisite to the issuance 
of a duplicate adjusted service certificate in all cases where the 
certificate was lost after receipt by the veteran, or after receipt by 
the veteran was defaced or mutilated and cannot be identified to the 
satisfaction of the Secretary, provided the loss, defacement, or 
mutilation was without bad faith on the part of the veteran or the 
person entitled to payment thereon. The bond must be in the manner and 
form prescribed by the Department of Veterans Affairs and for an amount 
equal to the face value of the certificate, with surety or sureties 
residents of the United States and satisfactory to the Secretary, with 
condition to indemnify and save harmless the United States from any 
claim on account of such certificate. If the certificate was defaced or 
mutilated the veteran or person entitled to payment thereon will be 
required to surrender to the Department of Veterans Affairs the 
certificate or so much thereof as may remain.