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Payment of benefits.

5 USC 2258.

PUBLIC LAW 86-714-SEPT. 6, 1960

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(5) I n subsection (e) by striking out "(1) shall be paid an annuity equal to one-half of the deferred annuity of such Member beginning the first day of the month following the death of such Member and terminating upon the death or remarriage of such surviving wife or husband" and inserting in lieu thereof "(1) shall be paid an annuity equal to 50 per centum of the Member's deferred annuity commencing on the day after the Member's death and terminating on the last day of the month before death or remarriage of such surviving wife or husband". (b) Subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 14 of the Civil Service Ketirement Act (70 Stat. 757; 5 U.S.C. 2264) are amended to read as follows: " (a) Each annuity is stated as an annual amount, one-twelfth of which, fixed at the nearest dollar, constitutes the monthly rate payable on the first business day of the month after the month or other period for which it has accrued. "(b) Except as otherwise provided, the annuity 6f an employee or Member shall commence on the day after separation from the service, or on the day after salary ceases and the employee or Member meets the service and the age or disability requirements for title thereto. The annuity of an employee or Member under section 8 shall commence on the day after the occurrence of the event on which payment thereof is based. An annuity otherwise payable from the fund allowed on or after date of enactment of this Act shall commence on the day after the occurrence of the event on which payment thereof is based. "(c) The annuity of a retired employee or Member shall terminate on the day death or any other terminating event provided in this Act occurs. An annuity otherwise payable from the fund on or after date of enactment of this Act shall terminate (1) in the case of a retired employee or Member, on the day death or any other terminating event occurs, or (2) in the case of a survivor, on the last day of the month before death or any other terminating event occurs." SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, benefits payable by reason of the amendments made by the first section of this Act shall be paid from the civil service retirement and disability fund. Approved September 6, 1960. Public Law 86-714

September 6, 1960 [H. R. 2178]

GrEpevine R e servoir, Tex.Road elevation.

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Army to make certain changes in the road at Whites Branch, Grapevine Reservoir, Texas. Be it enacted ly the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized and directed to elevate, relocate, or make such other changes as may be necessary to insure that the road at Whites Branch, Grapevine Keservoir, Texas, will at all times be above elevation 565.0 feet above mean sea level. SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such funds as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act. Approved September 6, 1960.

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