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PUBLIC LAW 85-857-SEPT. 2, 1958

[72 S T A T.

PART VI. ACQUISITION A N D DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY CHAPTER

Sec.

81. Acquisition and Operation of Hospital and Domiciliary Facilities; Procurement and Supply . 5001 83. Acceptance of Gifts and Bequests 5101 85. Disposition of Deceased Veterans' Personal Property 5201

PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS CHAPTER

Sec.

1. General 3. Veterans' Administration; Officers and Employees

101 201

CHAPTER 1 ~ GENERAL Sec.

101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111.

Definitions. Dependent parents and dependent husbands. Special provisions relating to marriages. Approval of educational institutions. Line of duty and misconduct. Certain service deemed to be active service. Certain service deemed not to be active service. Seven-year absence presumption of death. Benefits for discharged members of allied forces. Preservation of total disability ratings. Travel expenses.

§ 101. Definitions For the purposes of this title— (1) The term "Administrator" means the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. (2) The term "veteran" means a person who served in the active military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable. (3) The term "widow" means (except for purposes of chapter 19 of this title) a woman who was the wife of a veteran at the time of his death, and who lived with him continuously from the date of marriage to the date of his death (except where there was a separation which was due to the misconduct of, or procured by, the veteran without the fault of the wife) and who has not remarried (unless the purported remarriage is void). (4) The term "child" means (except for purposes of chapter 19 of this title and section 5202(b) of this title) a person who is unmarried and— (A) who is under the a^e of eighteen years; (B) who, before attaining the age of eighteen years, became permanently incapable of self-support; or (C) who, after attaining the age of eighteen years and until completion of education or training (but not after attaining the age of twenty-one years), is pursuing a course of instruction at an approved educational institution; and who is a legitimate child, a legally adopted child, a stepchild who is a member of a veteran's household or was a member at the time of the veteran's death, or an illegitimate child but, as to the alleged father, only if acknowledged in writing signed by him, or if he has been judicially ordered to contribute to the child's support or has been, before his death, judicially decreed to be the father of such child, or if he is otherwise shown by evidence satisfactory to the Administrator to be the father of such child. (5) The term "parent" means (except for purposes of chapter 10 of this title) a father, a mother, a father through adoption, a mother through adoption, or an individual who for a period of not less than one year stood in the relationship of a parent to a veteran at any time

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