An Act to extend the time for filing application by certain disabled veterans for payment on the purchase price of an automobile or other conveyance, and for other purposes
PL 84-92 (H.R.5089), enacted 06/21/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 93-JUNE 22, 1955 
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Public Law 92 
CHAPTER 175 
AN ACT 
To extend the time for filing application by certain disabled veterans for 
payment on the purchase price of an automobile or other conveyance, and 
for other purposes. 
June 21. 1955 
[H. R. 5089] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled., That section 5 of tlie 
Act entitled "An Act to authorize payments by the Administrator of 
Veterans' Affairs on the purchase of automobiles or other conveyances 
by certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes", enacted October 
20,1951 (Public Law 187, Eighty-second Congress), is hereby amended 
to read as follows: 
"SEC. 5. The benefits provided in this Act shall not be available to 
any veteran who has not made application for such benefits to the 
Administrator within five years after October 20, 1951, or within five 
years after the date of the veteran's discharge or release from active 
service if the veteran is not discharged or released until on or after 
October 20, 1951; except that in the case of any veteran whose loss or 
permanent loss of use of one or both feet, or one or both hands, or 
permanent impairment of vision, as specified in section 1, shall have 
occurred subsequent to his discharge or release from active service, 
application may be made within three years after the occurrence of such 
disability. 
Notwithstanding the foregoing time limits, no otherwise 
eligible veteran shall be denied the benefits of this Act who makes 
application w^ithin one year from the date on which his entitlement 
to compensation for loss or permanent loss of use of one or both feet, 
or one or both hands, or permanent impairment of vision, as specified in 
section 1, shall have been determined." 
Approved June 21, 1955. 
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disabled veterans.. 
65 Stat. 575. 
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T i m e limitation 
for application. 
Public Law 93 
CHAPTER 187 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of September 30, 1950 (64 Stat. 1096), to provide for the 
conveyance of certain real property to the city of Richmond, California. 
June 22, 1955 
[H. R. 4359] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Bcpresentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress ossemMed^ That the Act of Sep-
tember 30, 1950 (64 Stat, 1096), to provide for the conveyance of cer-
tain real property to the city of Richmond, California, is amended by 
the repeal of sections 3, 4, and 5 thereof, and the substitution of the 
following: 
"SEC. 3. The conveyance authorized herein shall include all right 
and title of the Secretary of Commerce in and to that certain person-
alty now installed wathin the bed of the said Central Drive, to wit: 
Approximately three thousand seven hundred feet of twelve-inch steel 
pipe, being a water main; and approximately five thousand and ninety 
feet of six-inch steel pipe, being a gas main. 
The city of Richmond 
may transfer or convey or otherwise dispose of the right, title, and 
interest in and to the aforesaid personalty, or permit the use thereof 
to others, whether by deed, lease, permit or otherwise, and grant as 
well a perpetual easement, any other provision of this Act to the 
contrary notwithstanding, over the lands the conveyance of which 
is authorized in section 1 hereof, so as to permit the replacement, main-
tenance, operation, renewal, and repair of said personalty: Provided, 
That as long as the property presently occupied by the said Maritime-
Richmond Yard Numbered 3 is held by the United States, the city 
Richmond, Calif. 
Conveyance, 
W a t e r and g a i 
mains. 
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PUBLIC LAW 94-JUNE 28, 1955 
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Highway m a i n -
tenance, etc* 
of Riclimond shall bind itself, its successors and assigns, its lessees 
and permittees to provide service through said water main and gas 
main or through any replacement or relocation thereof to said Mari-
time-Richmond Yard Numbered 3 as is required of water and gas 
utilities under the laws of the State of California. 
"SEC. 4. In consideration of the conveyance authorized in section 
1 hereof, and in addition to the conditions set forth in section 2 
hereof, the city of Richmond will at all times maintain the said public 
highway to provide and permit perpetual access to the said Maritime-
Richmond Yard Numbered 3 via said highway for all purposes, and 
will bind itself and its successors, assigns, lessees, or permittees, as 
the case may be, to any of the said pipes and pipelines, to provide and 
permit such service of water and gas as is required of water and gas 
utilities under the laws of the State of California through said pipes 
and pipelines or through any replacement or relocation thereof to said 
yard, as long as the property presently occupied by said yard is held 
by the United States." 
Approved June 22, 1955. 
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$2,690 
2,960 
3,175 
3,415 
3,670 
4,080 
4,525 
4,970 
5,440 
5,915 
6,390 
7,570 
8,990 
10, 320 
11, 610 
12,900 
13, 975 
14,800 
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$2,775 
3,045 
3,260 
3,500 
3,805 
4,215 
4,660 
5,105 
5, 575 
6,050 
6,605 
7,785 
9,205 
10, 535 
11,880 
13,115 
14,190 
Per annum rates 
$2, 860 
3,130 
3,345 
3,585 
3,940 
4,350 
4,795 
5,240 
5, 710 
6,185 
6,820 
8,000 
9,420 
10, 750 
12,150 
13,330 
14, 405 
$2,945 
3, 215 
3,430 
3,670 
4,075 
4,485 
4,930 
5, 375 
5,845 
6,320 
7,035 
8,215 
9,635 
10, 965 
12, 420 
13, 545 
14, 620 
$3, 030 
3,300 
3,515 
3,755 
4,210 
4,620 
5,065 
5,510 
5,980 
6,455 
7,250 
8,430 
9,850 
11,180 
12, 690 
13, 760 
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$3,115 
3,385 
3,600 
3,840 
4,345 
4,755 
5,200 
5,645 
6,115 
6,590 
7,465 
8,645 
10,065 
11, 395 
$3,200 
3,470 
3,685 
3,925 
4,480 
4,890 
5,335 
5,780 
6,250 
6,725