Volume 69 · 167
Public Law 84–87
To lower the age requirements with respect to optional retirement of persons serving in the Coast Guard who served in the former Lighthouse Service.
Approved June 21, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To lower the age requirements with respect to optional retirement of persons serving in the Coast Guard who served in the former Lighthouse Service.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 6 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize aids to navigation and for other works in the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes”, approved June 20, 1918, as amended (33 U. S. C., sec. 763), is amended by
striking out “who shall have reached the age of sixty-five years, after having been thirty years in the active service of the Government,” and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “who (1) shall have reached the age of sixty years, after having been thirty years in the active service of the Government, or (2) shall have reached the age of sixty-two years, after having been twenty-five years in the active service of the Government,”.
Sec. 2.
This Act shall take effect on the first day of the second month
Effective date.
beginning after the date of enactment of this Act.
Approved June 21, 1955.