Volume 90 · 3012
Private Law 94–138
For the relief of Jeanette Green, as mother of the minor child, Kicky Baker, deceased, and as widow and administratrix of the estate of Enoch Odell Baker, deceased: and for the relief of Mary Jane Baker Nolan, individually, and as widow and administratrix, of the estate of John William Baker, deceased.
Approved October 17, 1976
Statutory text
An Act
For the relief of Jeanette Green, as mother of the minor child, Kicky Baker, deceased, and as widow and administratrix of the estate of Enoch Odell Baker, deceased: and for the relief of Mary Jane Baker Nolan, individually, and as widow and administratrix, of the estate of John William Baker, deceased.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House, of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding the limitations of section 745 of title 46 of the United States Code, or any other statute of limitations, suits filed within one year of the effective date of this Act in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia by Jeanette Green as mother of the minor child. Ricky Baker, deceased, and as widow and administratrix of the estate of Enoch Odell Baker, deceased, for the deaths of Ricky Baker, a minor, and Enoch Odell Baker, and by Mary Jane Baker Nolan, individually, and as administratrix of the estate of John William Baker for the death of John William Baker and for injuries to Mary Jane Baker Nolan, arising from a boating accident that occurred on or about June 24, 1972, near the George Andrews Dam on the Chatta-hoochee River, near Columbia, Alabama, shall be held to be timely suits, and shall be received, considered, settled, and if meritorious, paid in accordance with the otherwise applicable provisions of sections 741 through 752 of title 46 of the United States Code. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia to receive, hear, and render judgment upon any suits filed with that court under the preceding provisions of this Act. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as inference of liability on the part of the United States.
Approved October 17, 1976.