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PUBLIC LAW 85-217-AUG. 29, 1957
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Public Law 85-217 AN ACT To amend further and m a k e permanent the Missing Persons Act, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Missing Persons Act (56 Stat. 143), as amended, is further amended as follows: (a) Section 1(a)(3) is amended to read as follows: " (3) Civilian officers and employees of the departments, exclusive of part time or intermittent employees or native labor casually hired on an hourly or per diem basis, wiio are citizens or nationals of the United States, or who are aliens who have been admitted to the United States for permanent residence, except that the following categories of civilian officers and employees shall be covered only upon a determination by the head of the department concerned that such status is the proximate result of employment by the department: " (i) persons who enter any status listed in section 2 of this Act within the continental limits of the United States and "(ii) persons who enter any status listed in section 2 of this Act who are residents at or in the vicinity of their places of employment in the Territories and possessions or in foreign countries and who were not living there solely as a result of their employment." (b) Section 2 is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. (a) Any person who is in the active service, or is performing full-time training duty, other full-time duty, or inactive duty training and who is officially determined to be absent in a status of missing, missing in action, interned in a foreign country, captured by a hostile force, beleaguered by a hostile force, or besieged by a hostile force shall, for the period he is officially carried or determined to be in any such status, be entitled to receive or to have credited to his account the same basic pay, special pay, incentive pay, basic allowance for quarters, basic allowance for subsistence, and station per diem allowances for not to exceed ninety days, to which he was entitled at the beginning of such period of absence or may become entitled thereafter, except that the pay and allowances for a person who is performing full-time training duty or other full-time duty without pay, or inactive duty training with or without pay, shall be that to which he would have been entitled if he had been performing full-time active duty with pay, and entitlement to pay and allowances shall terminate upon the date of receipt by the department concerned of evidence that the person is dead or upon the date of death prescribed or determined under provisions of section 5 of this Act. Such entitlement to pay and allowances shall not terminate upon the expiration of a term of service during absence and, in case of death during absence, shall not terminate earlier than the dates herein prescribed. There shall be no entitlement to pay and allowances for any period during which such person may be officially determined absent from his post of duty without authority and he shall be indebted to the Government for any payments from amounts credited to his account for such period. Persons performing full-time training duty, or inactive duty training shall be entitled to the benefits of this section only when such persons are officially determined to be absent in a status of missing, missing in action, interned in a foreign country, captured by a hostile force, beleaguered by a hostile force, or besieged by a hostile force as a result of the performance of prescribed duty ordered by competent authority:
August 29, 1957 [H. R. 5807]
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