# Prohibition of Interment or Memorialization in National Cemeteries and Certain State Cemeteries Due to Commission of Capital Crimes
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2002-10-08 · Effective 2002-11-07 · 67 FR 62642
## Document
- **Document number:** 02-25493
- **Category:** va-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 67 FR 62642
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 1
- **Publication date:** 2002-10-08
- **Effective date:** 2002-11-07
## Abstract

This final rule amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulations governing eligibility for interment or memorialization in national cemeteries and in State cemeteries receiving State cemetery grants from VA. The final rule concerns statutory provisions designed to ensure that the remains of certain persons who committed Federal or State capital crimes are not interred in such cemeteries and that the memory of such persons is not memorialized in such cemeteries.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/10/08/02-25493/prohibition-of-interment-or-memorialization-in-national-cemeteries-and-certain-state-cemeteries-due)
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