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20 CFR § 725.231 - Domicile.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t20/s725.231"
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title: "20 CFR § 725.231 - Domicile."
title_number: 20
title_name: "Employees' Benefits"
section_number: "725.231"
section_name: "Domicile."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "FEDERAL COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, AS AMENDED"
part_number: "725"
part_name: "CLAIMS FOR BENEFITS UNDER PART C OF TITLE IV OF THE FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT, AS AMENDED"
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currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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authority: "5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174; 30 U.S.C. 901  902(f), 921, 932, 936; 33 U.S.C. 901  42 U.S.C. 405; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834."
regulatory_source: "65 FR 80054, Dec. 20, 2000, unless otherwise noted."
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# 725.231 Domicile.

(a) For purposes of this subpart, the term “domicile” means the place of an individual's true, fixed, and permanent home.

(b) The domicile of a deceased miner or surviving spouse is determined as of the time of death.

(c) If an individual was not domiciled in any State at the pertinent time, the law of the District of Columbia is applied.