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PUBLIC LAW 9 3 - J U N E 22, 1955 CHAPTER 175

AN ACT To extend the time for filing application by certain disabled veterans for payment on the purchase price of an automobile or other conveyance, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled., That section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize payments by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs on the purchase of automobiles or other conveyances by certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes", enacted October 20, 1951 (Public Law 187, Eighty-second Congress), is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 5. The benefits provided in this Act shall not be available to any veteran who has not made application for such benefits to the Administrator within five years after October 20, 1951, or within five years after the date of the veteran's discharge or release from active service if the veteran is not discharged or released until on or after October 20, 1951; except that in the case of any veteran whose loss or permanent loss of use of one or both feet, or one or both hands, or permanent impairment of vision, as specified in section 1, shall have occurred subsequent to his discharge or release from active service, application may be made within three years after the occurrence of such disability. Notwithstanding the foregoing time limits, no otherwise eligible veteran shall be denied the benefits of this Act who makes application within one year from the date on which his entitlement to compensation for loss or permanent loss of use of one or both feet, or one or both hands, or permanent impairment of vision, as specified in section 1, shall have been determined." Approved June 21, 1955. Public Law 93

June 21. 1955 [H. R. 5089]

Automobiles tat disabled veterans..

65 Stat. 575. 38 USC 252e. T i m e limitation for application.

CHAPTER 187

AN ACT To amend the Act of September 30, 1950 (64 Stat. 1096), to provide for the conveyance of certain real property to the city of Richmond, California.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Bcpresentatives of the United States of America in Congress ossemMed^ That the Act of September 30, 1950 (64 Stat, 1096), to provide for the conveyance of certain real property to the city of Richmond, California, is amended by the repeal of sections 3, 4, and 5 thereof, and the substitution of the following: "SEC. 3. The conveyance authorized herein shall include all right and title of the Secretary of Commerce in and to that certain personalty now installed wathin the bed of the said Central Drive, to wit: Approximately three thousand seven hundred feet of twelve-inch steel pipe, being a water main; and approximately five thousand and ninety feet of six-inch steel pipe, being a gas main. The city of Richmond may transfer or convey or otherwise dispose of the right, title, and interest in and to the aforesaid personalty, or permit the use thereof to others, whether by deed, lease, permit or otherwise, and grant as well a perpetual easement, any other provision of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, over the lands the conveyance of which is authorized in section 1 hereof, so as to permit the replacement, maintenance, operation, renewal, and repair of said personalty: Provided, That as long as the property presently occupied by the said MaritimeRichmond Yard Numbered 3 is held by the United States, the city

June 22, 1955 [H. R. 4359]

Richmond, Calif. Conveyance,

W a t e r and g a i mains.

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