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Public Law 87–252
To make the Panama Canal Company immune from attachment or garnishment of salaries owed to its employees, and to amend the Shipping Act, 1916.
Approved September 16, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To make the Panama Canal Company immune from attachment or garnishment of salaries owed to its employees, and to amend the Shipping Act, 1916.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That paragraph
Panama Canal Company.
Garnishment of salaries.
(d) of section 248 of title 2, Canal Zone Code, as added by section 2 of the Act of June 29, 1948 (62 Stat. 1078), is amended to read as follows:
“(d) May sue and be sued in its corporate name, but no attachment, garnishment, or similar process shall be issued against salaries or other moneys owed by the Company to its employees”.
Sec. 2.
That section 2 of the Act of August 12, 1958, as amended,
Shipping.
Dual rate contract agreements.
46 USC 812 note.
is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 2.
This Act shall be effective immediately upon enactment and shall cease to be effective on and after October 15, 1961: Provided, however, That contracts in effect midnight September 14, 1961, shall remain in effect until midnight October 15, 1961, unless such contracts terminate earlier by their own terms, or are rendered illegal under the terms of the first section of this Act.”
Approved September 16, 1961.