Volume 84
Public Law 91–210
To amend title 37, United States Code, to provide entitlement to round trip transportation to the home port for a member of the Uniformed Services on permanent duty aboard a ship overhauling away from home port whose dependents are residing at the home port.
Approved March 13, 1970
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 37, United States Code, to provide entitlement to round trip transportation to the home port for a member of the Uniformed Services on permanent duty aboard a ship overhauling away from home port whose dependents are residing at the home port.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That chapter 7 of
Uniformed Services.
Travel allowances.
76 Stat. 469; 77 Stat. 217, 475.
title 37, United States Code, is amended as follows:
The following new section is inserted after section 406a:
Ҥ 406b. Travel and transportation allowances: members of the Uniformed Services attached to a ship overhauling away from home port
“Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned, a member of the Uniformed Services who is on permanent duty aboard a ship which is being overhauled away from its home port and whose dependents are residing at the home port of the ship is entitled to transportation, transportation in kind, reimbursement for personally procured transportation, or an allowance for transportation as provided in section 404(d) (3) of this chapter for round trip travel from
the port of overhaul to the home port on or after the thirty-first, ninety-first, and one hundred and fifty-first calendar day after the date on which the ship enters the overhaul port or after the date on which the member becomes permanently attached to the ship, whichever date is later: Provided, however, That in no event shall the amount of reimbursement for personally procured transportation or allowance for transportation exceed the cost of Government-procured commercial round trip air travel.”
The following new item is inserted in the analysis:
Approved March 13, 1970.