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.
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, § 758Pub. 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
- 1958Pub. L. 85–857, , 72 Stat. 1163, § 758
- 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.)