10 USC § 7714 - Collection of captured flags, standards, and colors

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s7714"
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title: "10 USC § 7714 - Collection of captured flags, standards, and colors"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "7714"
section_name: "Collection of captured flags, standards, and colors"
chapter_number: 775
chapter_name: "DISPOSITION OF EFFECTS OF DECEASED PERSONS; CAPTURED FLAGS"
part_number: "IV"
part_name: "SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 266, § 4714; renumbered § 7714, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(d), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1839.)"
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# § 7714. Collection of captured flags, standards, and colors

The Secretary of the Army shall have sent to him all flags, standards, and colors taken by the Army from enemies of the United States.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 266, § 4714; renumbered § 7714, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(d), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1839.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 4714 | 5:198. | R.S. 218. |

The words “from time to time”, “collected”, and “at the seat of government” are omitted as surplusage.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see , set out as a note preceding .