Volume 69 · 171
Public Law 84–92
To extend the time for filing application by certain disabled veterans for payment on the purchase price of an automobile or other conveyance, and for other purposes.
Approved June 21, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To extend the time for filing application by certain disabled veterans for payment on the purchase price of an automobile or other conveyance, 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 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize payments by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs on the purchase of automobiles or other conveyances by certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes”, enacted October 20, 1951 (Public Law 187, Eighty-second Congress), is hereby amended
to read as follows:
“Sec. 5.
The benefits provided in this Act shall not be available to
Time limitation for application.
any veteran who has not made application for such benefits to the Administrator within five years after October 20, 1951, or within five years after the date of the veteran’s discharge or release from active service if the veteran is not discharged or released until on or after October 20, 1951; except that in the case of any veteran whose loss or permanent loss of use of one or both feet, or one or both hands, or permanent impairment of vision, as specified in section 1, shall have occurred subsequent to his discharge or release from active service, application may be made within three years after the occurrence of such disability. Notwithstanding the foregoing time limits, no otherwise eligible veteran shall be denied the benefits of this Act who makes application within one year from the date on which his entitlement to compensation for loss or permanent loss of use of one or both feet, or one or both hands, or permanent impairment of vision, as specified in section 1, shall have been determined.”
Approved June 21, 1955.