An Act to grant emergency officers retirement benefits to certain persons who did not qualify therefore because their applications were not submitted before May 25, 1929
PL 87-875 (H.R.8517), enacted 10/24/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-875-OCT. 24, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
Chicot County, 
Ark. 
Bridge replace-
ment authorized. 
58 Stat. 894i 
W. Kerr Scott 
Dam and Reser-
Designation. 
60 Stat. 645. 
Short title. 
Waimea River, Kokee Area, Kauai, Hawaii, for multiple purposes. 
Waipio River, Kohala-Hamakua coast, Island of Hawaii, for mul-
tiple purpose development. 
lao River, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii. 
SEC. 210. The Secretary of the Army acting through the Corps of 
Engineers is hereby authorized to replace with adequate floodway 
capacity the bridge over Boeuf River, Chicot County, Arkansas, 
approximately three miles north of the county line, and the bridge over 
Big Bayou, Chicot County, Arkansas, approximately two miles 
upstream from its confluence with the Boeuf River which were altered 
as part of the project for Boeuf and Tensas Rivers and Bayou Macon, 
authorized by the Flood Control Act of December 22,1944, and which 
were recently destroyed by floods, at an estimated cost of $115,000. 
SEC. 211. The Wilkesboro Reservoir flood control project, Yadkin 
River, North Carolina, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1946, 
shall hereafter be known and designated as the W. Kerr Scott Dam 
and Reservoir, in honor of the late Senator W. Kerr Scott of North 
Carolina. 
Any law, regulation, document, or record of the United 
States in which such project is designated or referred to shall be held 
and considered to refer to such project by the name of the W. Kerr 
Scott Dam and Reservoir. 
SEC. 212. Title I I of this Act may be cited as the "Flood Control Act 
of 1962". 
Approved October 23, 1962. 
October 24, 1962 
[H. R. 8517] 
Public Law 87-875 
AN ACT 
To grant emergency officer s retirement benefits to certain persons who 
did not qualify therefor because their applications were not submitted before 
May 25,1929. 
Veterans. 
Officer's re-
tirement benefits. 
72 Stat. 1263. 
38 u s e prec. 
pt. 1 notes. 
48 Stat. 10. 
54 Stat. 760. 
72 Stat. 1216. 
38 u s e 1901-
1905. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 11 of 
Public Law 85-857 is amended (1) by inserting " ( a ) " immediately 
after "SEC. 11,"; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"(b) Any individual who, upon application therefor before May 25, 
1929, would have been granted emergency officer's retirement pay 
based upon 30 per centum or more disability under the Act of May 24, 
1928 (45 Stat. 735), and who would have been entitled to continue to 
receive such pay under section 10 of Public Numbered 2, Seventy-third 
Congress, or under section 1 of Public Numbered 743, Seventy-sixth 
Congress, and who upon being placed on the emergency officer's 
retired list would have been paid retired pay at a monthly rate lower 
than the monthly rate of disability compensation then payable, shall, 
upon application made therefor after the date of enactment of this 
subparagraph to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, be placed 
upon the appropriate emergency officer's retired list, and thereafter 
shall be entitled to all rights, privileges, and benefits of retired emer-
gency officers of World War I." 
The limitations of time contained in section 1905 of title 38, United 
States Code, are hereby waived in favor of Walter J. Johnson (Veter-
ans' Administration claim numbered C-6048500), and his application 
for benefits under chapter 39 of title 38, United States Code, shall be 
acted upon under the remaining provisions of such chapter if he 
applies for such benefits within the six-montli period which begins on 
the date of enactment of this Act. 
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Approved October 24, 1962.