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PUBLIC LAW 239-AUG. 8, 1953
Pacific Islands, and (2) the word 'Territorial' shall reflect such inclusion." SEC. 6. The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the first day of the third month which begins more than ten days after the date of enactment of this Act. Approved August 8, 1953. Public Law 239
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^ ^ -^^^ To permit members of the uniformed services to elect certain contingency options, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and' House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Uniformed Services Contingency Option Act of 1953". SEC. 2. As used in this Act— (a) The term "uniformed services" means the Army of the United States, Navy, United States Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service, including all components and members thereof. (b) The term "member" means a commissioned officer, commissioned warrant officer, warrant officer, nurse, flight officer, or a person in an enlisted grade (including an aviation cadet), of any of the uniformed services and a person entitled to retainer pay in the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve with credit for sixteen or more years of naval service. (c) The term "active member" means a member on the active list of a regular or reserve component of a vmiformed service or member of a reserve component of a uniformed service, who has completed twenty satisfactory years in his uniformed service, as defined in section 302 of the Army and Air Force Vitalization and Retirement Equalization Act of 1948. (d) The term "retired member" means a member or former member of a uniformed service, who is or has been awarded retired, retirement, or retainer pay or equivalent pay as a result of service in one of the uniformed services. (e) The term "widow" includes a widower and refers only to the spouse at the date of retirement of an active member or to the spouse at the effective date of this Act in the case of a retired member at the effective date of this Act. (f) The term "child" means a legitimate child, a stepchild in fact dependent upon the member for support, or a legally adopted child, who is under eighteen years of age and unmarried, or a child over eighteen years of age and unmarried who is incapable of self-support because of being mentally defective or physically incapacitated if that condition existed prior to reaching age eighteen and refers only to an active member's child who was born and is living at the date of retirement of the active member or to a retired member's child who was born and is living at the effective date of this Act in the case of a I'etired member at the effective date of the Act. (g) The term "retired pay" includes retirement pay, equivalent pay, and retainer pay. (h) The term "department concerned" means (A) the Department of the Army with respect to the Army, (B) the Department of the Navy with respect to the Navy and Marine Corps, (C) the Department of the Air Force with respect to the Air Force, (D) the Treasury Department with respect to the Coast Guard, (E) the Department
August 8, 1953 [H. R. 5304]
Uniformed Services Contingency Option Act of 1953. Definitions.
62 Stat. 1087. 10 USC 1036a,
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