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PUBLIC LAW 4 9 5 - J U L Y 15, 1954
Public Law 495
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STAT.
CHAPTER 507 AN ACT
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To provide for the recovery, care, aud disposition of the remains of members of the uniformed services and certain other personnel, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Overseas United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary sonnel. Remains* of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereafter in this Act individually and severally referred to as the Secretary) are hereby respectively granted the powers and authorities hereafter in this Act enumerated and defined. Recoveryf care, SEC. 2, The Secretary is authorized to provide for the recovery, care and disposition. and disposition of the remains of persons within the classes enumerated in section 3 hereof and, incident thereto, to pay the necessary expenses incurred for (a) notification to the next of kin or other appropriate person; (b) recovery and identification of remains; (c) preparation of remains for burial (including cremation of remains, upon request of the person recognized as the one to direct the disposition of the remains); (d) furnishing of a casket or urn, or both, with outside box; (e) hearse service; (f) funeral director'services; (g) transportation of remains and an escort of one person, including round-trip transportation and prescribed allowances for such escort, to the town or city, or national or other cemetery, designated by the person recognized as the person to direct the disposition of the remains or, in the absence of such designation, to a national or other cemetery designated by the Secretary in which burial of the decedent is authorized; (h) furnishing of a uniform or other articles of clothing; (i) presentation of a flag of the United States to the person recognized as the one to direct the disposition of the remains, except that the presentation of a flag shall not be authorized in the case of a military prisoner who dies while in his custody and whose sentence includes a discharge other than honorable; and (j) interment of remains. SEC. 3. The expenses authorized by section 2 hereof may be incurred Military by the Secretary in respect of (a) military personnel, including comnel* missioned officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Public Reserve Health Service, who die while on active duty; (b) members of a nents. reserve component of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service, of the federally recognized National Guard or Air National Guard (in respect of duty for which they are entitled by law to receive pay from the Federal Government), or of the National Guard or Air National Guard of the United States, who die while on active duty, active duty for training, or while performing authorized travel to or from such service, or who die while on inactive duty training pursuant to proper authority, or who die while hospitalized or undergoing treatment at Government expense, as authorized by law, for injuries, illness, or disease contracted or incurred while on such service or inactive duty training or such authorized travel; (c) members of a ROTC. Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the Army, Navy, and Air Force who die while attending training camps or on authorized practice cruises, pursuant to proper authority, or while performing authorized travel to or from such camps or cruises or while hospitalized or undergoing treatment at Government expense, as authorized by law, for injury, disease or illness contracted or incurred while attending such camps or on such cruises or authorized travel; (d) accepted appliAccepted listees* cants for enlistment in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, Hospitalized j^^d Coast GuardI (e) former enlisted members of the Army, Navy former e n l i s t e e s.
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