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Title 37 — Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services

Chapter 11 — Payments to Mentally Incompetent Persons

§ 604. Determination of Secretary final

Statutory text

The determination as to the person authorized to receive a payment under section 602 of this title is final and is not subject to review by an official of the United States or a court.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 87–649 · 76 Stat. 451

    Enacted · 37 U.S.C. § 604

    Pub. L. 87–649, Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 484

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 87–649, Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 484

  2. Pub. L. 89–718 § 66 · 80 Stat. 1113

    Struck · 37 U.S.C. § 604

    Pub. L. 89–718 struck out “the” before “Secretary” in section catchline

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 89–718 struck out “the” before “Secretary” in section catchline.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 66. The catchline of section 604 of title 37, United States Code, 76 Stat. 484. is amended by striking out “the”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

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Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
60437:354.June 21, 1950, ch. 342, § 4, 64 Stat. 250.

The words “or persons” are omitted for the reasons stated in the revision note for section 602(a) of this revised title. The words “made by the respective secretaries, or by their duly designated subordinates” and the words “and conclusive” are omitted as surplusage.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1966—Pub. L. 89–718 struck out “the” before “Secretary” in section catchline.

Credits

1962–1966 · 2 acts
  1. 1962Pub. L. 87–649, , 76 Stat. 484
  2. 1966Pub. L. 89–718, § 66, , 80 Stat. 1123.
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(Pub. L. 87–649, , 76 Stat. 484; Pub. L. 89–718, § 66, , 80 Stat. 1123.)

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