[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: 38CFR11.114]

[Page 545-546]
 
            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 11_LOANS BY BANKS ON AND PAYMENT OF ADJUSTED SERVICE 
 
Sec.  11.114  Identification.

    Before settlement is made on an adjusted service certificate, the 
person applying therefor will be identified as the person entitled to 
the settlement for which an application is made. If made in the United 
States or possessions, certification will be accepted if made by a 
United States postmaster or assistant postmaster over an impression of 
the post office cancellation stamp; a commissioned officer of the 
regular establishment of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps; a member of 
the United States Senate or the House of Representatives; an officer, 
over his official title, of a post, chapter, or other comparable unit of 
an organization recognized under Veterans Regulation No. 10 (38 U.S.C. 
ch. 12A), or an officer over his official title, of the State or 
national body of such organization, or any person who is legally 
authorized to administer oaths in a State, Territory, possession, 
District of Columbia, or in a Federal judicial district, of the United 
States. If identification is made in a foreign country, it will be 
certified by an American consul, a recognized representative of an 
American Embassy or Legation, or by a person authorized to administer 
oaths under the laws of the place where identification is made; 
provided, there be attached to the certificate of such latter officer a 
proper certification by an accredited official of the State Department 
of the United States that such officer was authorized to administer 
oaths in the place where certification was made. A manager of a 
Department of Veterans Affairs hospital is authorized to identify 
patients, members, or employees of the hospital over which he has 
charge. An employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs who has been 
specifically designated in writing to do so may identify applicants 
during official hours and on the premises of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs using

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for this purpose, if necessary, the official records of the Department 
of Veterans Affairs. Field station finance employees may not be 
designated for this purpose.
    (a) Fingerprint impressions shall be required on the application and 
shall be imprinted thereon in the presence of the persons identifying 
the veteran. In the case of veterans who are mentally incapacitated and 
application is being executed by a representative of the veteran, the 
veterans' fingerprints will be obtained if possible. If this cannot be 
done, as also in the case of an individual whose fingers are all 
missing, a statement of explanation will be required.
    (b) [Reserved]

[13 FR 7127, Nov. 27, 1948, as amended at 19 FR 5087, Aug. 12, 1954]