Volume 74
Public Law 86–511
To amend chapter 561 of title 10, United States Code, to provide that the Secretary of the Navy shall have the same authority to remit Indebtedness of enlisted members upon discharge as the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force have.
Approved June 11, 1960
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend chapter 561 of title 10, United States Code, to provide that the Secretary of the Navy shall have the same authority to remit Indebtedness of enlisted members upon discharge as the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force have.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
chapter
Navy.
Enlisted members, indebtedness.
561 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
Ҥ 6161. Remission of indebtedness of enlisted members upon discharge.
“If he considers it in the best interest of the United States, the Secretary of the Navy may have remitted or canceled any part of an enlisted member’s indebtedness to the United States or any of its instrumentalities remaining unpaid before, or at the time of, that member’s honorable discharge.”
The analysis of such chapter 561 is amended by adding at the foot thereof the following:
Approved June 11, 1960.