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PUBLIC LAW 91-199-FEB. 26, 1970
[84 STAT,
Public Law 91-199 February 26, 1970 [H. R. 8664]
U.S. Navy. Selection Dosrd
AN ACT To authorize an increase in the number of flag officers who may serve on certain selection boards in the Navy and in the number of officers of the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve who are eligible to serve on selection boards considering Reserves for promotion.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 6701 of •
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officers, increase, title 10, Uiiited States Code, is amended by— 70A Stat. 336. (J) amending subsBction (a)(3) to read as follows: " (3) A board to recommend captains for promotion to the grade of rear admiral and a board to recommend commanders for promotion to the grade of captain, each consisting of not less than nine officers serving in the grade of rear admiral or above."; and (2) adding the following sentence at the end of subsection (c): "When a board convened under subsection (a)(3) consists of more than nine members, only nine officers may act upon the case of any officer designated for engineering duty, aeronautical engineering duty, or special duty; namely, the three alternate members of the same designation as the officer under consideration (or the lesser available number of such officers) plus the number of the most senior members not restricted in the performance of duty necessary to make a total of nine.". Corps Reserve Navai^and Marine S?:c. 2. The secoud seuteiice of section 5893(b) of title 10, United 72 Stat. 1500. '"°°°"°"° States Code, is amended to read as follows: "All members of each board must be serving in a grade above the grade in which the officers that are to be considered by the board are serving.". Approved February 26, 1970. Public Law 91-200 February 26, 1970 [H. R. 9485]
Uniformed services. Prisoners of war, e t c. Savings d e posits. 80 Stat. 347. 80 Stat. 625. 37 USC 5 5 1.
AN ACT To remove the $10,000 limit on deposits under section 1035 of title 10, United States Code, in the case of any member of a uniformed service who is a prisoner of war, missing in action, or in a detained status during the Vietnam conflict.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amenca in Congress assembled, That section 1035(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended as follows: (1) By inserting ", except that such limitation shall not apjjly to deposits made on or after September 1, 1966, in the case of those members in a missing status, as defined in section 551(2) of title 37, during the Vietnam conflict" after "$10,000" in the second sentence. (2) By adding the following new sentence at the end: "For purposes of this subsection, the Vietnam conflict begins on February 28, 1961, and ends on the date designated by the President by Executive order as the date of the termination of combatant activities in Vietnam." Approved February 26, 1970.
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