94 STAT. 2906
PUBLIC LAW 96-513—DEC. 12, 1980 REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES IN CONNECTION WITH CERTAIN MESS OPERATIONS
37 USC 1011.
SEC. 413. Chapter 19 of title 37, United States Code, relating to administration of pay and allowances, is amended by adding after section 1010 (as added by section 403) the following new section: "§ 1011. Mess operation: reimbursement of expenses "(a) The Secretary of Defense shall, by regulation, establish rates for meals sold at messes to officers, civilians, or enlisted members entitled to a per diem transportation allowance determined under section 404(d)(2) of this title. Such rates shall be established at a level sufficient to provide reimbursement of operating expenses and food costs to the appropriations concerned, but members of the uniformed services and civilians in a travel status receiving a per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence shall be charged at a rate of not less than $2.50 per day. "(b) For the purposes of this section, payment for meals at the rates established under this section may be made in cash or, in the case of enlisted members or civilian employees, by deduction from pay. Members of organized nonprofit youth groups sponsored at either the national or local level, when extended the privilege of visiting a military installation and permitted to eat in the general mess by the commanding officer of the installation, shall pay the commuted ration cost of such meal or meals.". REPEAL OF PROVISIONS OF TITLE 37, UNITED STATES CODE, SUPERSEDED BY SECTION 805 OF THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS ACT
SEC 414. (a) Sections 302c and 313 of title 37, United States Code, relating to special pay for medical officers of the Public Health Service, are repealed. (b)(l) Section 311(a) of such title, relating to continuation pay for dentists, is amended by striking out paragraph (2) and redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2). (2) The heading of such section is amended to read as follows: "§311. Special pay: continuation pay for dentists in the armed forces". SPECIAL PAY FOR RESERVE MEDICAL OFFICERS
SEC. 415. Section 302 of title 37, United States Code, relating to special pay for medical officers, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(h)(1) Any reserve officer who is an officer of the Medical Corps of the Army or the Navy or an officer of the Air Force designated as a medical officer— "(A) who has served on active duty as a medical officer for not less than one year; and "(B) is not on active duty under a call or order to active duty for a period of not less than one year; is entitled to special pay in accordance with this subsection. "(2) An officer described in paragraph (1) of this subsection is entitled to specisd pay at the rate of— "(A) $100 a month for each month of active duty, if he has not completed two years of active duty; or "(B) $350 a month for each month of active duty, if he has completed at least two years of active duty.".
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