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PUBLIC LAW 86-260-SEPT. 14, 1959
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Public Law 86-260 AN ACT
O. K.. .n=o September 14, 1959
To revise eligibility requirements for burial in national cemeteries, and for other purposes.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of te^fg'""^^ cemeMay 14, 1948 (ch. 289, 62 Stat. 234), is amended to read as follows: Burial eiigi" (a) Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Army may, 24^USC 28inote. with the approval of the Secretary of Defense, prescribe, the remains of the following persons may be buried in national cemeteries: "(1) Any member or former member of the Armed Forces who served on active duty (other than for training) and whose last such service terminated honorably. "(2) Any member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces, and any member of the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard, whose death occurs under honorable conditions while he is— " (A) on active duty for training, or performing full-time service under section 316, 503, 504, or 505 of title 32, United 7OA Stat. eos. States Code; eio, en. " (B) performing authorized travel to or from that duty or service; " (C) on authorized inactive duty training, including training performed as a member of the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard; or " (D) hospitalized or undergoing treatment, at the expense of the United States, for injury or disease contracted or incurred under honorable conditions while he is— " (i) on that duty or service; "(ii) performing that travel or inactive duty training; or "(iii) undergoing that hospitalization or treatment at the expense of the United States. "(3) Any member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the Army, Navy, or Air Force whose death occurs under honorable conditions while he is— " (A) attending an authorized training camp or on an authorized practice cruise; " (B) performing authorized travel to or from that camp or cruise; or " (C) hospitalized or undergoing treatment, at the expense of the United States, for injury or disease contracted or incurred under honorable conditions while he is— "(i) attending that camp or on that cruise; "(ii) performing that travel; or "(iii) undergoing that hospitalization or treatment at the expense of the United States. " (4) Any citizen of the United States who, during any war in which the United States is or has been engaged, served in the armed forces of any government allied with the United States during that war, and whose last such service terminated honorably. "(5) The wife, husband, surviving spouse, minor child, and, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, unmarried adult child of any of the persons listed in clauses (1) - (4).
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