Volume 75
Public Law 87–212
To authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to make emergency payments to persons who are injured or whose property is damaged as a result of aircraft or missile accidents, and for other purposes.
Approved September 8, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to make emergency payments to persons who are injured or whose property is damaged as a result of aircraft or missile accidents, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That chapter 163 of title 10, United States Code, is amended—
by adding the following new section at the end thereof:
“§ 2736. Property loss; personal injury or death: incident to aircraft or missile operation”
“(a) Under such regulations as the Secretary of a military department may prescribe, payment of an amount not in excess of $1,000 may be made in advance of the submission of a claim to or for any person, or his legal representatives, who was injured or killed, or whose property was damaged or lost, as the result of an accident involving an aircraft or missile under the control of that department for which allowance of a claim is authorized by law. Payments under this subsection are limited to those which would otherwise be payable under
section 2733 or 2734 of this title or section 715 of title 32.
“(b) Any amount paid under subsection (a) shall be deducted from any amount that may be allowed under any other provision of law to the person, or his legal representative, for injury, death, damage, or loss attributable to the accident concerned.
“(c) So far as practicable, regulations prescribed under this section shall be uniform for the military departments.
“(d) Payment of an amount under subsection (a) is not an admission by the United States of liability for the accident concerned.”; and
by adding the following new item at the end of the analysis:
“2736. Property loss; personal injury or death: incident to aircraft or missile operation.”
Approved September 8, 1961.