An Act to amend section 8 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended
PL 82-555 (S.2968), enacted 07/16/1952

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PUBLIC LiAW 555-JULY 16, 1952 
[66 S T A T . 
60 Stat. 237. 
5 u s e 1001 note. 
47 u s e 409. 
47 u s e 410. 
Joint board. 
62 Stat. 763. 
Effective date. 
Ante, p. 718. 
"(d) To the extent that the foregoing provisions of this section are 
in conflict with provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, such 
provisions of this section shall be held to supersede and modify the 
provisions of that Act." 
(b) Subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), and (j) of 
section 409 are hereby redesignated as subsections (e), (f), (g), (h), 
(i)^5 (J), (k), (l),and (m),respectively. 
SEC. 17. Section 410 (a) of such Act is amended by striking out the 
first sentence thereof, and by inserting in lieu of such sentence the fol-
lowing : "Except as provided in section 409, the Commission may refer 
any matter arising in the administration of this Act to a joint board 
to be composed of a member, or of an equal number of members, as 
determined by the Commission, from each of the States in which the 
wire or radio communication affected by or involved in the proceeding 
takes place or is proposed. 
For purposes of acting upon such matter 
any such board shall have all the jurisdiction and powers conferred by 
law upon the Commission, and shall be subject to the same duties and 
obligations." 
SEC. 18. (a) Title 18, United States Code, "Crimes and Criminal 
Procedure", is amended by adding the following new section immedi-
ately after section 1342: 
"§ 1343. Fraud by wire, radio, or television. 
"Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or 
artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of 
false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits 
or causes to be transmitted by means of interstate wire, radio, or tele-
vision communication, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds 
for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined not 
more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both." 
(b) The analysis of chapter 63 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new item: 
"1343. Fraud by wire, radio, or television." 
SEC. 19. This Act shall take effect on the date of its enactment, but— 
(1) Insofar as the amendments made by this Act to the Com-
munications Act of 1934 provide for procedural changes, require-
ments imposed by such changes shall not be mandatory as to any 
agency proceeding (as defined in the Administrative Procedure 
Act) with respect to which hearings have been commenced prior 
to the date of enactment of this Act. 
(2) The amendments made by this Act to section 402 of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (relating to judicial review of orders 
and decisions of the Commission) shall not apply with respect to 
any action or appeal which is pending before any court on the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved July 16, 1952. 
July 16, 1952 
2968] 
Public Law 555 
CHAPTER 880 
AN ACT 
To amend section 8 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, 
as amended. 
Civil Service Re-
t i r e me nt 
A c t , 
amendments. 
46 Stat. 475. 
A n n u i t y 
in-
crease. 
Be it enctcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 8 of 
the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended (5 
U. S. C. 736c), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"(c) (1) The annuity of any retired employee or of any survivor 
of a deceased or retired employee who, before the date of enactment 
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of this amendment, was receiving or entitled to receive an annuity 
from the civil-service retirement and disability fund, shall be increased, 
effective on the first day of the second month following enactment of 
this amendment, by $36 for each full six-month period elapsed between 
the commencing date of annuity and October 1, 1952: Provided^ That 
such increase in annuity shall not exceed the lesser of $324 or 25 per 
centum of the present annuity: Provided further, That no annuity 
shall be increased to an amount in excess of $2,160 by reason of the 
enactment of this amendment: And 
provided 
further, 
That the 
increases to retired employees provided by this subsection shall not 
operate to increase the annuities of their survivors. 
"(2) The increases in annuity provided by this subsection shall be 
paid from the civil-service retirement and disability fund, and shall 
terminate, without subsequent resumption, on June 30, 1955, or on an 
earlier date under any one of the following conditions, whichever may 
first occur: 
"(A) At the end of the second month following the third con-
secutive month for which the Consumers' Price Index of the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics is less than 169.9, the index for the 
month of April 1948. In the event that the Bureau of Labor 
Statistics revises the basis of calculating the Consumers' Price 
Index, it shall immediately furnish to the Commission a con-
version factor designed to adjust to the new basis the index figure 
of 169.9 described herein, and such adjusted index shall be used 
for the purposes of this subsection. 
"(B) On June 30, 1954, unless an appropriation is made to the 
civil-service retirement and disability fund in the applicable 
annual appropriation Act, for the fiscal year 1955, or in any prior 
appropriation Act, for the specific purpose of compensating said 
fund for the cost, as determined by the Commission, of increases 
provided by this subsection during the fiscal years 1954 and 1955." 
SEC. 2. (a) There is hereby created a body to be known as the 
Committee on Retirement Policy for Federal Personnel, which shall 
be composed of a chairman appointed by the President and, ex officio, 
the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman 
of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Director 
of the Bureau of the Budget, and the Chairman of the Civil Service 
Commission. 
(b) The Committee shall make a comparative study of all retire-
ment systems for all Federal personnel and report to the Congress 
not later than December 31, 1953. Its report, including findings and 
recommendations, shall include the following: 
(1) the types and amounts of retirement and other related 
benefits provided to Federal personnel, including their role in 
the compensation system as a whole; 
(2) the necessity for special benefit provisions for selected 
employee groups, including overseas personnel and employees in 
hazardous occupations; 
(3) the relationships of these retirement systems to one 
another, to the Federal employees' compensation system, and to 
such general systems as old-age and survivors insurance; and 
(4) the current financial status of the several systems, the 
most desirable methods of cost determination and funding, the 
division of costs between the Government and the members of 
the systems, and the policies that should be followed in meeting 
the Government's portion of the cost of the various systems. 
(c) The Chairman of said Committee, under such rules and regu-
lations as the President may prescribe, is authorized to procure 
services pursuant to section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 
Restriction. 
Termination. 
Conditions. 
C o m m i t t e e on 
Retirement Policy 
for F e d e r a l Pei^ 
sonnel. 
Duties. 
R eport. 
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PUBLIC L|AW 556-JULY 16, 1952 
[66 S T A T . 
60 Stat. 810. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071note. 
Appropriation. 
46 Stat. 476. 
Waiver. 
55a), and subject to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act 
of 1949, as amended, to appoint and fix the compensation of such 
attorneys and other personnel as may be necessary to carry out the 
provisions of this section. 
There are hereby authorized to be appro-
priated to the President such sums as may be necessary to carry out 
the provisions of this section. 
. 
SEC. 3. Section 13 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 
1930, as amended (5 U. S, C, 716), is amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following paragraph: 
"An^ person entitled to annuity from the civil-service retirement 
and disaoility fund may decline to accept all or any part of such 
annuity by a waiver signed and filed with the Commission, 
Such 
waiver may be revoked in writing at any time, but no payment of 
the annuity waived shall be made covering the period during which 
such waiver was in effect." 
• 
Approved July 16, 1952. 
July 16, 1952 
[S. 3161] 
Public Law 556 
CHAPTER 881 
AN ACT 
To amend part I of the Interstate Commei-ce Act to provide for filing of equip-
ment trust agreements and other documents evidencing or relating to the lease, 
mortgage, conditional sale, or bailment of railroad equipment. 
Interstate C o m -
merce Act, amend-
ment. 
24 Stat. 379. 
49 u s e ch. 1. 
R a i Ir oad e quip-
ment. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That part I of the 
Interstate Commerce Act, as amended (U. S. C, title 49), is hereby 
amended by inserting, after section 20b, the following new section: 
"SEC. 20c. Any mortgage, lease, equipment trust agreement, condi-
tional sale agreement, or other instrument evidencing the mortgage, 
lease, conditional sale, or bailment of railroad cars, locomotives, or 
other rolling stock, used or intended for use in connection with inter-
state commerce, or ajiy assignriient of rights or interest under any such 
instrument, or any supplement or amendment to any such instrument 
or assignment (including any release, discharge or satisfaction thereof, 
in whole or in part), may be filed with the Commission, provided such 
instrument, assignment, supplement or amendment is in writing, exe-
cuted by the parties thereto, and acknowledged or verified in accord-
ance with such requirements as the Commission shall prescribe; and 
any such instrument or other document, when so filed with the Com-
mission, shall constitute notice to and shall be valid and enforceable 
against all persons including, without limitation, any purchaser from, 
or mortgagee, creditor, receiver, or trustee in bankruptcy of, the 
mortgagor, buyer, lessee or bailee of the equipment covered thereby, 
from and after the time such instrument or other document is so filed 
with the Commission; and such instrument or other document need 
not be otherwise filed, deposited, registered or recorded under the 
provisions of any other law of the United States of America, or of any 
State (or political subdivision thereof), territory, district or possession 
thereof, respecting the filing, deposit, registration or recordation of 
such instruments or documents. The Commission shall establish and 
maintain a system for the recordation of each such instrument or 
document, filed pursuant to the provisions of this section, and shall 
cause to be marked or stamped thereon, a consecutive number, as w^ell 
as the date and hour of such recordation, and shall maintain, open to 
public inspection, an index of all such instruments or documents, 
including any assignment, amendment, release, discharge or satisfac-