Volume 71 · 366
Public Law 85–142
To amend section 6 of the Act of June 20, 1918, as amended, relating to the retirement pay of certain members of the former Lighthouse Service.
Approved August 14, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 6 of the Act of June 20, 1918, as amended, relating to the retirement pay of certain members of 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 and supplemented (33 U. S. C. 763), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: “Any
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person entitled to retirement pay under this section may decline to accept all or any part of such retirement pay by a waiver signed and filed with the Secretary of the Treasury. Such waiver may be revoked in writing at any time, but no payment of the retirement pay waived shall be made covering the period during which such waiver was in effect.”
Approved August 14, 1957.