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 107 STAT. 1632 PUBLIC LAW 103-160—NOV. 30, 1993 to serve as attorney or agent for the facility in any probate proceeding in which the Retirement Home may have a legal interest as nominated fiduciary, testamentary legatee, escheat legatee, or in any other capacity. "(B) An attorney designated under this paragraph may, in the domiciliary jurisdiction of the deceased resident and in any ancillary jurisdiction, petition for appointment as fiduciary. The attorney shall have priority over any petitioners (other than the deceased resident's nominated fiduciary, named legatees, or heirs) to serve as fiduciary. In a probate proceeding in which the heirs of an intestate deceased resident cannot be located and in a probate proceeding in which the nominated fiduciary, legatees, or heirs of a testate deceased resident cannot be located, the attorney shall be appointed as the fiduciary of the deceased resident's estate. "(3) The designation of an employee or representative of a facility of the Retirement Home as personal representative of the estate of a resident of the Retirement Home or as a legatee under the will or codicil of the resident shall not disqualify an employee or staff member of that facility from serving as a competent witness to a will or codicil of the resident. "(4) After the end of the three-year period beginning on the date of the death of a resident of a facility, the Director of the facility shall dispose of all property of the deceased resident that is not otherwise disposed of under this subsection, including personal effects such as decorations, medals, and citations to which a right has not been established under subsection (a). Disposal may be made within the discretion of the Director by— "(A) retaining such property or effects for the facility; "(B) offering such items to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, a State, another military home, a museum, or any other institution having an interest in such items; or "(C) destroying any items determined by the Director to be valueless.". (0 APPLICABILITY. —Section 1541 of such Act (24 U.S.C. 401 note) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(d) APPLICABILITY. —Section 1520 of this Act shall apply to the estate of each resident of the Armed Forces Retirement Home, including the United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home and the Naval Home, who dies after November 29, 1989. ". SEC. 367. MODIFICATION OF RESTRICTION ON REPAIR OF CERTAIN VESSELS THE HOMEPORT OF WHICH IS PLANNED FOR REASSIGNMENT. Subsection (b) of section 7310 of title 10, United States Code, as inserted by section 824(b), is amended to read as follows: "(b) VESSEL CHANGING HOMEPORTS. — (1) In the case of a naval vessel the homeport of which is not in the United States (or a territory of the United States), the Secretary of the Navy may not diiring the 15-month period preceding the planned reassignment of the vessel to a homeport in the United States (or a territory of the United States) begin any work for the overhaul, repair, or maintenance of the vessel that is scheduled to be for a period of more than six months. "(2) In the case of a naval vessel the homeport of which is in the United States (or a territonr of the United States), the Secretary of the Navy shall during the 15-month period preceding the planned reassignment of the vessel to a homeport not in the

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