Volume 69
Public Law 84–290
To amend title 14, United States Code, so as to provide for compensatory absence of Coast Guard military personnel serving at isolated aids to navigation, and for other purposes.
Approved August 9, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 14, United States Code, so as to provide for compensatory absence of Coast Guard military personnel serving at isolated aids to navigation, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 432 (f) of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting the words “as amended” following the words “Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945”.
Sec. 2.
Section 432 (g) of title 14, United States Code, is amended by amending the first sentence thereof to read as follows: “The head of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, under regulations prescribed by him, may regulate the hours of duty and the pay of civilian keepers of lighthouses and civilians employed’ on lightships and other vessels of the Coast Guard, but such personnel may be called upon for duty in emergency circumstances or otherwise at any time or all times”.
Sec. 3.
The analysis of chapter 13 of title 14, United States Code,
is amended by inserting in such analysis the. following item:
Sec. 4.
Chapter 13 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting a new section as follows:
Ҥ 511. Compensatory absence of military personnel at isolated aids to navigation.
“The head of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, under regulations prescribed by him, may grant compensatory absence from duty to military personnel of the Coast Guard serving in lightships and at lighthouses and other isolated aids to navigation of the Coast Guard when conditions of duty result in confinement because of isolation or in long periods of continuous duty.”
Approved August 9, 1955.