Volume 75
Public Law 87–145
To amend the Career Compensation Act of 1949 with respect to special pay for diving duty, and for other purposes.
Approved August 17, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Career Compensation Act of 1949 with respect to special pay for diving duty, 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 205 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as amended (37 U.S.C. 236), is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 205.
(a) Members of the uniformed services entitled to receive basic pay and assigned by competent orders to the duty of diving shall be entitled to receive, in addition to basic pay, special pay at a rate not to exceed $110 per month for periods during which diving duty is actually performed, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary concerned.
“(b) No member of the uniformed services shall be entitled to receive the special pay authorized pursuant to this section in addition
to incentive pay authorized pursuant to section 204 of this Act.
“(c) The President may, in time of war, suspend the payment of diving-duty pay.”
Sec. 2.
Section 204(a) of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as amended (37 U.S.C. 235(a)), is further amended—
by striking out clauses (8), (9), and (12), and the word “and” at the end of clause (12);
by redesignating clauses (10), (11), and (13) as “(8)”, “(9)”, and “(10)”, respectively; and
by adding the word “and” after the semicolon at the end of clause (9).
Sec. 3.
Section 204(c) of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as amended (37 U.S.C. 235 (c)), is further amended by striking out “(13)” and inserting “(10)” in lieu thereof.
Approved August 17, 1961.