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 PUBLIC LAW 100-322—MAY 20, 1988

102 STAT. 539

"(4) Discontinuance of payment of premiums by the veteran. "(j) Termination of life insurance under this section shall not affect the guaranty or insurance of the loan by the Administrator.". (2) The item relating to section 806 in the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 21 is amended to read as follows: "806. Veteran's mortgage life insurance.". (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by subsection (a) 38 USC 806 note.

shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) SAVINGS PROVISION.—Mortgage protection life insurance 38 USC 806 note. granted to any veteran under the former section 806 shall continue in force with the United States as insurer, subject to the terms of subsection (d). Nothing in that subsection shall impair any rights of any veteran or mortgage loan holder under the former section 806 that matured before the effective date specified in subsection (b). (d) DISCONTINUANCE OF CONTRACT PROGRAM.—(1) Effective as of

the effective date specified in subsection (b), the Administrator shall discontinue the policy of insurance purchased in accordance with the former section 806. (2) All premiums collected or received by the insurer on or after such effective date under a policy purchased under the former section 806 shall be promptly forwarded to the Administrator and shall be credited to the "Veterans Insurance and Indemnities" appropriation account. Any positive balance of the contingency reserve maintained by the insurer under such policy remaining after all charges have been made shall be payable to the Administrator and shall be deposited by the Administrator in such account, except that such balance may, upon the election of the insurer, be paid by the insurer in equal monthly installments over a period of not more than two years beginning on the date, after such effective date, that the Administrator specifies. (e) FORMER SECTION 806 DEFINED.—For the purpose of subsections (c) and (d), the term "former section 806" means section 806 of title 38, United States Code, as in effect on the day before the effective date specified in subsection O^)PART E—MEMORIAL AFFAIRS SEC, 341. NATIONAL CEMETERY GRAVE MARKERS.

Va) IN GENERAL.—Section 1004(c)(2) is amended— (1) by striking out "and" at the end of clause (A); (2) by striking out the period at the end and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon; and (3) by adding at the end the following new clauses: "(C) in the case of any cemetery located on the grounds of or adjacent to a Veterans' Administration health-care facility, the Administrator may provide for flat grave markers; and "(D) in the case of grave sites of cremated remains that are interred in the ground, the Administrator may provide for flat grave markers.". 0)) GRAVE MARKERS IN CERTAIN LOCATIONS.—Notwithstanding sec- State tion 1004(c)(2) of title 38, United States Code, the Administrator may ^^^\^. „„. provide for flat grave markers in the cases of the national ceme- note teries in Riverside, California; Bourne, Massachusetts; Augusta, Michigan; and Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania; and the proposed

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