An Act to amend title 37, United States Code, to authorize payment of special allowances to dependents of members of the uniformed services to offset expenses incident to their evacuation, and for other purposes
PL 89-26 (H.R.3043), enacted 05/22/1965

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PUBLIC LAW 89-26-MAY 22, 1965 
[79 STAT. 
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Approved May 22, 1965. 
May 22, 1965 
[H. R. 3043] 
Public Law 89-26 
AN ACT 
To amend title 37, United States Code, to authorize payment of special allow-
ances to dependents of members of the uniformed services to offset expenses 
incident to their evacuation, and for other purposes. 
Uniformed Serv-
ices. 
Dependents, 
evacuation allow-
ances. 
76 Stat. 473. 
Definition. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That title 37, United 
States Code, is amended as follows: 
(1) The following new section is inserted after section 405: 
"§ 405a. Travel and transportation allowances: evacuation allow-
ances 
"(a) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretaries concerned, 
when dependents of members of the uniformed services are ordered 
evacuated by competent authority from places outside the United 
States to places inside the United States, they may be authorized 
such allowances as the Secretary concerned determines necessary to 
offset the expenses incident to the evacuation. Allowances authorized 
by this section are in addition to those authorized by any other section 
of this title. For the purposes of this section, a dependent 'ordered 
evacuated by competent authority' includes— 
"(1) a dependent who is present at or in the vicinity of the 
member's duty station when the evacuation of dependents is 
ordered by competent authority and who actually moves to an 
authorized safe haven designated by that authority, whether such 
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safe haven is at or in the vicinity of the member's duty station or 
elsewhere; 
"(2) a dependent who established a household at or in the 
vicinity of the member's duty station but who is temporarily 
absent therefrom for any reason when evacuation of dependents 
is ordered by competent authority; and 
"(3) a dependent who was authorized to join the member and 
who departed from his former place of residence incident to join-
ing the member but who, as a result of the evacuation of depend-
ents, is diverted to a safe haven designated by competent authority 
or is authorized to travel to a place the dependent may designate, 
even though he was in the United States when the evacuation 
was ordered. 
"(b) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretaries concerned, each f^'^h-^^°''*^"°" 
member whose dependents are covered by subsection (a) of this section ° 
is entitled to have one motor vehicle owned by him and for his personal 
use, or the use of the dependents, transported at the expense of the 
United States to a designated place for the use of the dependents. 
When the dependents are permitted to rejoin the member, the vehicle 
may be transported at the expense of the United States to his perma-
nent duty station." 
(2) The analysis of chapter 7 is amended by inserting the following 
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new item: 
"405a. Travel and transportation allowances: evacuation allowances." 
(3) Section 407(a) is amended by inserting the words ", or whose 
dependents are covered by section 405a (a) of this title" after the 
word "station". 
(4) Section 407(b) is amended— 
(A) by striking out the word "or" at the end of clause (1); 
(B) by striking out the period at the end of clause (2) and 
inserting the word "; or" in place thereof; and 
(C) by adding the following after clause (2): 
"(3) the member's dependents are covered by section 405a(a) 
of this title." 
(5) Section 411 (a) is amended by inserting the figure "405a," after 
the figure "405,". 
(6) Section 1006 is amended— 
waiver.""'' ''^''''' 
(A) by adding the following sentence at the end of subsection 
(c) : "The Secretary concerned or his designee may waive any right 
of recovery of not more than one month's basic pay advanced 
under this subsection if he finds that recovery of the advance 
would be against equity and good conscience or against the public 
interest."; and 
(B) by adding at the end: 
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" (g) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned, the 
dislocation allowance authorized by section 407 of this title for a mem-
ber of a uniformed service whose dependents are covered by section 
405a(a) of this title may be paid in advance of the evacuation of the 
dependents and to the dependents designated by the member." 
SEC. 2. This Act becomes effective on February 1, 1965, and termi-
nates on June 30,1966. 
Approved May 22, 1965. 
Effective and 
termination dates.