Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§1219 Statement of Origin of Disease or Injury: Limitations
Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART II — PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 61 — RETIREMENT OR SEPARATION FOR PHYSICAL DISABILITY › § 1219
Summary
Service members cannot be forced to sign statements about how an illness or injury started, happened, or got worse; any such signed statement that hurts them is not valid.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §1219
Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
A member of an armed force may not be required to sign a statement relating to the origin, incurrence, or aggravation of a disease or injury that he has. Any such statement against his interests, signed by a member, is invalid.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
1962 Act section 1218 and 1219 are restated, without substantive change, to conform to the style adopted for title 10.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1962—Pub. L. 87–651 substituted “Statement of origin of disease or injury: limitation” for “Statement against interest void” in section catchline, and “A member of an armed force may not be required to sign a statement relating to the origin, incurrence, or aggravation of a disease or injury that he has. Any such statement against his interests, signed by a member, is invalid” for “No person in the Armed Forces may be required to sign a statement of any nature relating to the origin, incurrence, or aggravation of any disease or injury he may have. Any such statement against his own interest, whenever signed, is of no force and effect.”
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective Jan. 1, 1958, see section 2301 of Pub. L. 85–56, 71 Stat. 172.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
10 U.S.C. § 1219
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102