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Timestamp: 2020-03-29 05:44:04
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1160', '§1', '§360', '§3', '§404', '§702', '§109', '§1160', '§4', '§103', '§102', '§5', '§109']

[USC02] 38 USC 1160: Special consideration for certain cases of loss of paired organs or extremities
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38 USC 1160: Special consideration for certain cases of loss of paired organs or extremities Text contains those laws in effect on March 28, 2020
(a) Where a veteran has suffered-
(1) impairment of vision in one eye as a result of service-connected disability and impairment of vision in the other eye as a result of non-service-connected disability not the result of the veteran's own willful misconduct and-
(Added Pub. L. 87–610, §1, Aug. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 406 , §360; amended Pub. L. 89–311, §3(a), (b), Oct. 31, 1965, 79 Stat. 1155 ; Pub. L. 94–433, title IV, §404(22), Sept. 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 1379 ; Pub. L. 98–160, title VII, §702(3), Nov. 21, 1983, 97 Stat. 1009 ; Pub. L. 99–576, title I, §109(a)(1), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3253 ; renumbered §1160 and amended Pub. L. 102–83, §§4(b)(1), (2)(E), 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404–406 ; Pub. L. 107–330, title I, §103, Dec. 6, 2002, 116 Stat. 2821 ; Pub. L. 110–157, title I, §102, Dec. 26, 2007, 121 Stat. 1831 .)
2007-Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 110–157 substituted "impairment of vision" for "blindness" in two places and "misconduct and-" for "misconduct;" and added subpars. (A) and (B).
2002-Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 107–330 substituted "deafness compensable to a degree of 10 percent or more in one ear" for "total deafness in one ear" and "deafness in the other ear" for "total deafness in the other ear".
1991-Pub. L. 102–83, §5(a), renumbered section 360 of this title as this section.
1986-Pub. L. 99–576 amended section generally, substituting "loss of paired organs or extremities" for "blindness or bilateral kidney involvement or bilateral deafness" in section catchline. Prior to amendment, text of section read as follows: "Where any veteran (1) has suffered blindness in one eye as a result of service-connected disability and has suffered blindness in the other eye as a result of non-service-connected disability not the result of such veteran's own willful misconduct, or (2) has suffered the loss or loss of use of one kidney as a result of service-connected disability, and has suffered severe involvement of the other kidney such as to cause total disability, as a result of non-service-connected disability not the result of such veteran's own willful misconduct, or (3) has suffered total deafness in one ear as a result of service-connected disability and has suffered total deafness in the other ear as the result of non-service-connected disability not the result of such veteran's own willful misconduct, the Administrator shall assign and pay to the veteran concerned the applicable rate of compensation under this chapter as if such veteran's blindness in both eyes or such bilateral kidney involvement were the result of service-connected disability."
1983-Pub. L. 98–160 substituted "(1) has suffered" for "has suffered (1)".
1976-Pub. L. 94–433 substituted "such veteran's" for "his" wherever appearing.
1965-Pub. L. 89–311 added cl. (3) referring to total deafness in one ear as a result of service-connected disability and total deafness in the other ear as the result of non-service-connected disability not the result of his own willful misconduct, inserted reference to total deafness in both ears and, in section catchline, inserted reference to bilateral deafness.
Pub. L. 99–576, title I, §109(c), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3253 , provided that: