United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
Title 33. NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS |
Chapter 16. LIGHTHOUSES |
§ 771. Benefits for surviving spouses of Lighthouse Service employees; death of employee during retirement; amount of payment
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Where— (1) any former employee of the Lighthouse Service has died or shall hereafter die at a time when that employee was receiving or was entitled to receive retirement pay under section 763 of this title, as amended and supplemented, and (2) the surviving spouse of the former employee was married to the former employee prior to the retirement of the former employee from the Lighthouse Service and has not remarried— the surviving spouse, so long as the surviving spouse does not remarry, shall be paid $100 per month by the Secretary of Transportation.
Amendments
1984—Pub. L. 98–557 substituted references to surviving spouse for references to widow.
1967—Pub. L. 90–167 struck out provision which exempted from coverage of this section widows of employees whose positions were classified in one of the grades of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, or a comparable grade of the Classification Act of 1949, or who performed duties of a position comparable to a position so classified after the enactment of law requiring the classification of such positions.
Pub. L. 90–163 substituted “$100 per month” for “$75 per month”.
1958—Pub. L. 85–351 substituted “$75 per month” for “$50 per month”.
Effective Date Of Amendment
Pub. L. 90–167, § 2,
Pub. L. 90–163, § 1,
Pub. L. 85–351, § 2,
Effective Date
Act Aug. 19, 1950, ch. 761, § 6, 64 Stat. 466, provided that:
Transfer Of Functions
Bureau of Lighthouses, of which Lighthouse Service was a part, transferred and consolidated with Coast Guard under Secretary of the Treasury by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, § 2(a), eff.
For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of
Miscellaneous
Pub. L. 94–170,
Pub. L. 90–163, § 2,