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Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits

Part II · Chapter 19 — Insurance

§ 1958. Statutory total permanent disability

Statutory text

Without prejudice to any other cause of disability, the permanent loss of the use of both feet, of both hands, or of both eyes, or of one foot and one hand, or of one foot and one eye, or of one hand and one eye, or the loss of hearing of both ears, or the organic loss of speech, shall be deemed total permanent disability for insurance purposes. This section shall be deemed to be in effect on and after , and shall apply only to automatic insurance, yearly renewable term insurance, and United States Government life insurance issued prior to .

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. 85–857 · 72 Stat. 1105

    Enacted · 38 U.S.C. § 1958

    Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1163, § 758

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1163, § 758

  2. Pub. L. 102–83 § 5(a) · 105 Stat. 378

    Changed · 38 U.S.C. § 1958

    Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 758 of this title as this section

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 758 of this title as this section.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) Redesignation of Sections to Conform to Chapter Numbers.— Each section contained in any of chapters 11 through 23 is redesignated by replacing the first digit of the section number with the number of the chapter containing that section. Each section contained in any of chapters 24 through 42 is redesignated so that the first two digits of the section number of that section are the same as the chapter number of the chapter containing that section.

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

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 758 of this title as this section.

Credits

1958–1991 · 2 acts
  1. 1958Pub. L. 85–857, , 72 Stat. 1163, § 758
  2. 1991renumbered § 1958, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), , 105 Stat. 406.
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(Pub. L. 85–857, , 72 Stat. 1163, § 758; renumbered § 1958, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), , 105 Stat. 406.)

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