An Act to revise eligibility requirements for burial in national cemeteries, and for other purposes.
PL 86-260 (S.825), enacted 09/14/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-260-SEPT. 14, 1959 
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Public Law 86-260 
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September 14, 1959 
To revise eligibility requirements for burial in national cemeteries, and for 
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other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Re'presentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act of te^fg'""^^ ceme-
May 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^usc28inote. 
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 
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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 condi-
tions while he is— 
"(A) attending an authorized training camp or on an author-
ized 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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I n t e r m e n t and 
removal. 
"(b) The remains of any person listed in subsection (a) (5) may, in 
the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, be removed from a national 
cemetery proper and interred in the post section of a national cemetery 
or in a post cemetery if, upon death, the related person named in sub-
section (a) (l)-(4) is not buried in the same or an adjoining gravesite. 
However, the remains of a person listed in subsection (a) (5) may 
not be removed from a national cemetery proper if the related person 
is— 
" (1) lost or buried at sea; 
"(2) officially determined to be permanently absent in a status 
of missing or missing in action; 
"(3) officially determined to be dead for the purpose of ter-
minating his status of missing or missing in action; or 
" (4) one whose remains have not been recovered." 
Approved September 14, 1959. 
September 14, 1959 
[S. 53] 
Public Law 86-261 
AN ACT 
To amend the Acts approved April 16 and June 27, 1906 (34 Stat. 116 and 519), 
so as to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands on the 
Huntley reclamation project, Yellowstone County, Montana, to school district 
numbered 24, Huntley Project Schools, Yellowstone County, Montana. 
H u n t l e y recla-
mation 
p r o j e c t , 
Mont. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hou^e of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstand-
ing the provisions, terms, and conditions of any other Act of Con-
gress, the Secretary of the Interior shall, upon payment of $115 to 
the United States, cause to be conveyed without restriction, save as 
hereinafter set forth, to school district numbered 24, Huntley Project 
Schools, Yellowstone County, Montana, its successors and assigns, 
the following described land and premises located and situated in 
Yellowstone County, Montana: Lot 3 of block 3 of the original town-
site of Ballantine, Montana, block 14 of the original townsite of 
Pompeys Pillar, Montana, and block 15 of the original townsite of 
Huntley, Montana, subject to reservation from said land of a right-
of-way thereon for ditches and canals constructed by the authority 
of the United States in accordance with the provisions of the Act 
of August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 391), and any and all existing easements 
on said lands; reserving to the United States, and its assigns, all 
coal, oil, gas, and other minerals, including, without being limited by 
enumeration, sand, gravel, stone, clay and similar materials, together 
with the usual mining rights, powers, and privileges, includnig the 
right at any and all times to enter upon said land and use such part 
of the surface thereof as may be necessary in prospecting for, mining, 
saving, and removing said minerals and materials, upon payment of 
damages caused by said surface use to the owner thereof, or upon 
giving a good and sufficient bond or undertaking in an action instituted 
in any competent court to ascertain and fix said damages. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and 
empowered to execute and deliver to school district numbered 24, 
Huntley Project Schools, Yellowstone County, Montana, any docu-
mentary evidence which he may determine to be necessary to carry 
out the intent of this Act. 
Approved September 14, 1959.