Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 63 Part 1.djvu/854

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[63 STAT. PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 681-OCT. 12, 1949 PERSONAL MONEY ALLOWANCE Lieutenant general, SE. 304. (a) Officers entitled to receive basic pay shall, while serv- vice admiral. ing in the grade of lieutenant general, vice admiral, or in an equivalent grade or rank, in addition to any other pay or allowance authorized by this Act, be entitled to receive a personal money allowance of $500 per annum. General, admiral. (b) Officers entitled to receive basic pay shall, while serving in the grade of general, admiral, or in an equivalent grade or rank, in addi- tion to any other pay or allowance authorized by this Act, be entitled to receive a personal money allowance of $2,200 per annum. Chief of Staff of (C) Officers entitled to receive basic pay shall, while serving as the Army, etc. Chief of Staff of the Army, as the Chief of Naval Operations, as the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, as the Commandant of the Marine Corps, or as the Commandant of the Coast Guard, in lieu of any other personal money allowance authorized by this section, but in addition to any other pay or allowance authorized by this Act, be entitled to receive a personal money allowance of $4,000 per annum. TITLE IV-PROVISIONS RELATING TO RETIREMENT, RETIREMENT PAY, SEPARATION, AND SEVERANCE PAY FOR PHYSICAL DISABILITY ESTABLISHMENT OF A TEMPORARY DISABILITY RETIRED LIST SEC. 401. (a) Any member of the uniformed services found to be unfit to perform the duties of his office, rank, grade, or rating by reason of physical disability and who otherwise qualifies as herein- after provided may be retired or separated subject to the provisions of this title. (b) The Secretary concerned shall establish for his uniformed service a temporary disability retired list, upon which shall be placed the names of all members of his service entitled to such placement pursuant to the provisions of this title. Such list shall be published annually in the official register or other official publication of the service concerned. TEMPORARY DISABILITY RETIREMENT, PHYSICAL DISABILITY RETIREMENT, AND DISABILITY RETIREMENT PAY Temporary disabil- ity retired list. Post, p. 818. Permanent disabil- ity. SEC. 402. (a) Upon a determination by the Secretary concerned (1) that a member of a Regular component of the uniformed services en- titled to receive basic pay, or a member of a Reserve component of the uniformed services entitled to receive basic pay who has been called or ordered to extended active duty for a period in excess of thirty days, is unfit to perform the duties of his office, rank, grade, or rating, by reason of physical disability incurred while entitled to receive basic pay; (2) that such disability is not due to the intentional misconduct or willful neglect of such member and that such disability was not incurred during a period of unauthorized absence of such member; (3) that such disability is 30 per centum or more in accordance with the standard schedule of rating disabilities in current use by the Vet- erans' Administration; (4) that such disability was the proximate result of the performance of active duty; and (5) that accepted medical principles indicate that such disability may be of a permanent nature, the name of such member shall be placed upon the temporary disability retired list of his service by the Secretary concerned and such member shall be entitled to receive disability retirement pay as prescribed in subsection (d) of this section: Provided,That if condition (5) above is met by a finding that such disability is of a permanent nature, such 816