Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 15A — Reciprocal Fire Protection Agreements
§ 1856c. Service in line of duty
Statutory text
Any service performed under section 1856a or section 1856b of this title, by any officer or employee of the United States or any member of any armed force of the United States shall constitute service rendered in line of duty in such office, employment, or force. The performance of such service by any other individual shall not constitute such individual an officer or employee of the United States for the purposes of subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5.
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. 84–105 § 4 · 69 Stat. 188
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1856c
(May 27, 1955, ch. 105, § 4, 69 Stat. 67.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 27, 1955, ch. 105, § 4, 69 Stat. 67.)
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Editorial Notes
Codification
“Subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5” substituted for “the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act, as amended” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), , 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Credits
(May 27, 1955, ch. 105, § 4, 69 Stat. 67.)