Volume 68 · 471
Public Law 83–487
To provide for the disposal of paid postal-savings certificates.
Approved July 14, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the disposal of paid postal-savings certificates.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
all claims for payment or any postal-savings certificate, or other evidence of deposit in the postal-savings depository system, including duplicates, which certificate or evidence of deposit, including duplicates, are shown by the records of the Post Office Department to have been duly paid, shall be barred if not presented to the Postmaster General within six years from the date on which such records show that they were paid.
Final determination as to whether payment properly has been made on postal-savings certificates or other evidences of deposit in the postal-savings depository system, including duplicates, shall be based upon the official records of the Post Office Department.
Sec. 2.
The Postmaster General may, under such regulations as he
Disposal.
may prescribe, destroy, or otherwise dispose of, all postal-savings certificates, or other evidences of deposit in the postal-savings depository system, including duplicates, after the expiration of six years from the date payment thereon has been made as shown by the records of the Post Office Department.
Sec. 3.
This Act shall take effect on the first day of the sixth calendar
Effective date.
month following the date of its enactment.
Approved July 14, 1954.