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 762 September 30, 1944 [S. 2015] [Public Law 452] National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, amendments. 54 Stat. 1010. 38 U. S.C.. 802 (a). Restriction on pay- ments to heirs, etc. Payment of excess reserve and dividends to estate of insured. 56 Stat. 657. 38 U. S.C., Supp. III, 802 (d) (3) (A). Total disability in line of duty. 38 Stat. 711; 43 Stat. 607. 38 U.S.C. It 287, 357, 502 575, 421; Supp. IHi, ch. i0. 54 Stat. 1009. 38 U. ..C. 80 Supp. in, 802. Death prior to con- tinuance of total dis- ability for 6 months. 68Stat. 658 . 38 U. S. C., Supp ml 1802 (n). P. 76.M AN ACT To liberalize certain provisions of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (j) of section 602 of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "(j) No installments of such insurance shall be paid to the heirs or legal representatives as such of the insured or of any beneficiary, and in the event that no person within the permitted class survives to receive the insurance or any part thereof no payment of the unpaid installments shall be made, except that if the reserve of a contract of converted national service life insurance, together with dividends accumulated thereon, less any indebtedness under such contract exceeds the aggregate amount paid to beneficiaries, the excess shall be paid to the estate of the insured unless the estate of the insured would escheat under the laws of his place of residence, in which event no payment shall be made." SEO. 2 . That portion of subsection (3) (A) of section 602 (d) of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended, which precedes the first proviso is hereby amended to read as follows: "(3) (A) Any person in the active service who on or after Octo- ber 8, 1940, and prior to April 20, 1942, becomes totally disabled as a result of injury or disease incurred in line of duty and such dis- ability continues without interruption for a period of six months or until death intervening prior to the end of such six months' period without having in force at time of incurrence of such disability at least $5,000 insurance issued under the War Risk Insurance Act, as amended, or the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, or this Act, shall be deemed to have applied for and to have been granted effective as of the commencement of such total disability, national service life insurance ip an amount which together with any such insurance then in force shall aggregate $5,000 and such gratuitous insurance shall continue in force without payment of premiums until six months after the insured ceases to be totally disabled or until one year after the date of enactment of this amendatory Act, whichever is the earlier date:". SEc. 3. Section 602 of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940 is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection (r) to read as follows: "(r) In any case in which premiums are not waived under sub- section (n) hereof solely because the insured died prior to the con- tinuance of total disability for six months, and proof of such facts, satisfactory to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, is filed by the beneficiary with the Veterans' Administration within one year after the enactment of this amendment, or one year after the PUBLIC LAWS--CHS. 453, 454 -SEPT. 30, 1944 [58 STAT. nants, uniforms, and insignia shall be furnished by the Coast Guard at actual cost, and the proceeds received therefor shall be credited to current appropriations from which replacements are purchased. Any person who shall without proper authority, fly from any build- ing, aircraft, motorboat, yacht, or other vessel, any flag or pennant or display any identifying insignia or wear any insignia of the auxiliary or Reserve, or wear any uniform of the auxiliary shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500." Approved September 30, 1944. rCFAPTER 4541 ,; A ........

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