An Act to amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 in order to authorize free or reduced-rate transportation for certain additional persons
PL 86-627 (H.R.4049), enacted 07/12/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-627-JULY 12, 1960 
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SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of 
the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or agency in-
cluded in this Act, shall be used to pay the compensation of any em-
ployee engaged in personnel work in excess of the number that would 
be provided by a ratio of one such employee to one hundred and thirty-
five, or a part thereof, full-time, part-time, and intermittent employees 
of the corporation or agency concerned: Provided^ That for purposes 
of this section employees shall be considered as engaged in personnel 
work if they spend halftime or more in personnel administration con-
sisting of direction and administration of the personnel program; 
employment, placement, and separation; job evaluation and classifica-
tion ; employee relations and services; wage administration; and proc-
essing, recording, and reporting. 
SEC. 303. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or 
of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or agency 
included in this Act, shall be used for construction of fallout shelters 
in Government-owned or leased buildings except where specifically 
provided. 
This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Appropriation 
Act, 1961". 
Approved July 12, 1960. 
Personnel work. 
Fallout shelters. 
Short title. 
Public Law 86-627 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 in order to authorize free or reduced-
rate transportation for certain additional persons. 
Be it eviacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 403(b) 
of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 is amended by striking out the 
second sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
"Nothing in this Act shall prohibit such air carriers or foreign air 
carriers, under such terms and conditions as the Board may prescribe, 
from issuing or interchanging tickets or passes for free or reduced-rate 
transportation to their directors, officers, and employees (including 
retired directors, officers, and employees who are receiving retirement 
benefits from any air carrier or foreign air carrier), the parents and 
immediate families of such officers and employees, and the immediate 
families of such directors; widows, widowers, and minor children of 
employees who have died as a direct result of personal injury sustained 
while in the performance of duty in the service of such air carrier or 
foreign air carrier; witnesses and attorneys attending any legal in-
vestigation in which any such air carrier is interested; persons injured 
in aircraft accidents and physicians and nurses attending such persons; 
immediate families, including parents, of persons injured or killed in 
aircraft accidents where the object is to transport such persons in con-
nection with such accident; and any person or property with the object 
of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence, or other 
calamitous visitation; and, in the case of overseas or foreign air 
transportation, to such other persons and under such other circum-
stances as the Board may by regulations prescribe." 
Approved July 12, 1960. 
July 12, 1960 
[H. R, 4049] 
Federal Aviation 
Act of 
1 9 5 8, 
amendment. 
72 Stat. 759. 
49 use 1373.