Volume 53 · 1044
Public Law 76–286
To authorize the payment of burial expenses and expenses in connection with last illness and death of native employees who die while serving in offices abroad of executive departments of the United States Government.
Approved July 15, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the payment of burial expenses and expenses in connection with last illness and death of native employees who die while serving in offices abroad of executive departments of the United States Government.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the head of
Native employees serving in offices abroad of executive departments.
Payment of burial, etc., expenses in certain countries, authorized.
Limitation.
any executive department, which maintains permanent staffs of employees in foreign countries is hereby authorized to pay out of any appropriation available to the department concerned for miscellaneous or contingent expenses, burial expenses, and expenses in connection with last illness and death, not in excess of $100 in any one case, of the native employees of such department in those countries with respect to which the Secretary of State shall determine it is
Payments in certain destitute cases, authorized.
customary for employers to pay such expenses; and the head of any executive department, which maintains permanent staffs of employees in foreign countries where such custom does not exist, is authorized, upon finding that the immediate family of the deceased is destitute, to make such payments within the limitations prescribed above to the family, heirs-at-law, or persons responsible for the debts of the deceased, as the officer in charge of the office abroad in which the deceased was employed shall determine to be proper.
Approved, July 15, 1939.