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Timestamp: 2020-02-17 04:34:10
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 602', '§516', '§1621', '§645', '§2', '§1', '§645']

[USC02] 37 USC 602: Payments: designation of person to receive amounts due
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37 USC 602: Payments: designation of person to receive amounts due Text contains those laws in effect on February 15, 2020
From Title 37-PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICESCHAPTER 11-PAYMENTS TO MENTALLY INCOMPETENT PERSONS
(a) Active duty pay and allowances, amounts due for accrued or accumulated leave, or retired or retainer pay, that are otherwise payable to a member to whom this chapter applies and who is mentally incapable of managing his affairs, may be paid for that member's use or benefit to-
(b) An individual may not be designated under subsection (a)(3) to receive payments unless a board consisting of at least three qualified medical officers or physicians, one of whom is specially qualified in the treatment of mental disorders, determines that the member is mentally incapable of managing the member's affairs. Any such board shall be appointed from available medical officers or physicians under his jurisdiction by the head of whichever of the following is providing medical treatment for the member, or by a person designated by that head-
( Pub. L. 87–649, Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 483 ; Pub. L. 96–513, title V, §516(17), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2939 ; Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title XVI, §1621(b)(1), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1604 ; Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title VI, §645, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2167 .)
June 21, 1950, ch. 342, §§2, 3 (less 1st 28 words), 64 Stat. 249 ; Aug. 7, 1959, Pub. L. 86–145, §1, 73 Stat. 297 .
2016-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 114–328, §645(1), struck out ", in the opinion of a board of medical officers or physicians," after "and who" and substituted "use or benefit to-
1989-Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 101–189 substituted "Department of Veterans Affairs" for "Veterans' Administration".
1980-Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 96–513 substituted "Department of Health and Human Services" for "Department of Health, Education, and Welfare".