Volume 76
Public Law 87–487
To amend title 39 of the United States Code to provide for payment for unused compensatory time owing to deceased postal employees, and for other purposes.
Approved June 19, 1962
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 39 of the United States Code to provide for payment for unused compensatory time owing to deceased postal employees, 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 3573
Postal employees.
Compensatory time.
of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph (5), as follows:
“(5) If an employee is entitled under this section to unused compensatory time at the time of his death, the Postmaster General shall pay at the rate prescribed in this section, but not less than a sum equal to the employee’s hourly basic compensation, for each hour of such unused compensatory time to the person or persons surviving at the date of such employee’s death. Such payment shall be made in the order of precedence prescribed in the first section of the Act of August 3, 1950 (5 U.S.C. 61f), and shall
be a bar to recovery by any other person of amounts so paid.”.
Approved June 19, 1962.