Volume 63 · 903
Public Law 81–723
To increase the allowance for equipment maintenance of rural carriers by 1 cent per mile per day for each scheduled mile or major fraction thereof.
Approved October 25, 1949
Statutory text
AN ACT
To increase the allowance for equipment maintenance of rural carriers by 1 cent per mile per day for each scheduled mile or major fraction thereof.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (e) of section 17 of the Act of July 6, 1945, as amended (Public Law 134, Seventy-ninth Congress), is amended to read as follows:
“(e) In addition to the salaries provided in this section, each carrier in the rural delivery service shall be paid for equipment maintenance a sum equal to 8 cents per mile per day for each mile or major fraction of a mile scheduled. Payments for equipment and maintenance as provided herein shall be at the same periods and in the same manner as payments for regular compensation to rural carriers.”
Sec. 2.
The amendment made by this Act shall take effect on the
Effective date.
first day of the first calendar month beginning after the date of enactment of this Act.
Approved October 25, 1949.