Volume 74
Public Law 86–627
To amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 in order to authorize free or reduced-rate transportation for certain additional persons.
Approved July 12, 1960
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 in order to authorize free or reduced-rate transportation for certain additional persons.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 403(b)
Federal Aviation Act of 1958, amendment.
of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 is amended by striking out the second sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “Nothing in this Act shall prohibit such air carriers or foreign air carriers, under such terms and conditions as the Board may prescribe, from issuing or interchanging tickets or passes for free or reduced-rate transportation to their directors, officers, and employees (including retired directors, officers, and employees who are receiving retirement benefits from any air carrier or foreign air carrier), the parents and immediate families of such officers and employees, and the immediate families of such directors; widows, widowers, and minor children of employees who have died as a direct result of personal injury sustained while in the performance of duty in the service of such air carrier or foreign air carrier; witnesses and attorneys attending any legal investigation in which any such air carrier is interested; persons injured in aircraft accidents and physicians and nurses attending such persons; immediate families, including parents, of persons injured or killed in aircraft accidents where the object is to transport such persons in connection with such accident; and any person or property with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence, or other calamitous visitation; and, in the case of overseas or foreign air transportation, to such other persons and under such other circumstances as the Board may by regulations prescribe.”
Approved July 12, 1960.