Volume 80
Public Law 89–360
To extend the statutory burial allowance to certain veterans whose deaths occur as a result of a service-connected disability.
Approved March 7, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To extend the statutory burial allowance to certain veterans whose deaths occur as a result of a service-connected disability.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 902(a)
Veterans.
Burial allowance.
of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
“(a) Where a veteran dies—
“(1) of a service-connected disability; or
“(2) who was (A) a veteran of any war; (B) discharged from the active military, naval, or air service for a disability incurred or aggravated in Tine of duty; or (C) in receipt of (or but for the receipt of retirement pay would have been entitled to) disability compensation;
the Administrator, in his discretion, having due regard to the circumstances in each case, may pay a sum not exceeding $250 to such person as he prescribes to cover the burial and funeral expenses of the deceased veteran and the expense of preparing the body and transporting it to the place of burial. For the purpose of this subsection, the term ‘veteran’ includes a person who died during a period deemed to be active military, naval, or air service under section 106(c) of this title.”
Approved March 7, 1966.