Volume 56
Public Law 77–448
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional pay for personnel of the United States Navy assigned to duty on submarines and to diving duty”, to include additional pay for diving in depths of less than ninety feet under certain conditions, and for other purposes.
Approved June 27, 1942
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional pay for personnel of the United States Navy assigned to duty on submarines and to diving duty”, to include additional pay for diving in depths of less than ninety feet under certain conditions, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act
Navy.
Submarine and diving duty.
entitled “An Act to provide additional pay for personnel of the United States Navy assigned to duty on submarines and to diving duty”, approved April 9, 1928 (45 Stat. 412), as amended (49 Stat.
Post, p. 736.
1091; 34 U. S. C-, 886), be, and the same is hereby, further amended by striking out in line 20 thereof the words “as now provided by law” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “as now or hereafter provided by law”; and by striking out the proviso therein and inserting in lieu thereof a proviso to read as follows: “ Provided, That officers and
Additional pay for certain salvage and repair operations.
enlisted men employed as divers in actual salvage or repair operations in depths of over ninety feet, or in depths of less than ninety feet when the officer in charge of the salvage or repair operation shall find in accordance with instructions prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy that extraordinary hazardous conditions exist, shall, in addition to the foregoing, receive the sum of $5 per hour for each hour or fraction thereof so employed.”
Approved, June 27, 1942.