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PUBLIC LAW 8 6 - 7 4 0 - S E P T. 13, 1960

[74 S T A T.

Public Law 86-740 September 13. 1960

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AN ACT

To amend title 32, United States Code, to authorize the payment of certain claims against the National Guard.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the f%''y^mi^nf% United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 7 of claims against - . - title 32, United States Code, is amended— U.' S (1) by adding the following new section at the end thereof: "§ 715. Property loss; personal injury or death: activities under certain sections of this title " (a) Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Army or Secretary of the Air Force may prescribe, he or, subject to appeal to him, the Judge Advocate General of the armed force under his jurisdiction, if designated by him, may settle, and pay in an amount not more than $5,000 a claim against the United States for— "(1) damage to, or loss of, real property, including damage or loss incident to use and occupancy; "(2) damage to, or loss of, personal property, including property bailed to the United States or the National Guard and including registered or insured mail damaged, lost, or destroyed by a criminal act while in the possession of the National Guard; or "(3) personal injury or death; either caused by a member of the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard, as the case may be, while engaged in training or duty under section 316, 502, 503, 504, or 505 of this title or any other provision of law for which he is entitled to pay under 63 Stat. 825. section 301 of title 37, or for which he has waived that pay, and acting within the scope of his employment; caused by a person 70A Stat. 614. employed under section 709 of this title acting within the scope of his employment; or otherwise incident to noncombat activities of the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard, as the case may be, under one of those sections. " (b) A claim may be allowed under subsection (a) only if— " (1) it is presented in writing within two years after it accrues, except that if the claim accrues m time of war or armed conflict or if such a war or armed conflict intervenes within two years after it accrues, and if good cause is shown, the claim may be presented not later than two years after the war or armed conflict is terminated; ^72 Stat. 1461; 62 «/g) it is uot covered by section 2734 of title 10 or section 2672 ^'^ of title 28; " (3) it is not for personal injury or death of such a member or a 70A Stat. 614. persou employed under section 709 of this title, whose injury or death is incident to his service; "(4) the damage to, or loss of, property, or the personal injury or death, was not caused wholly or partly by a negligent or wrongful act of the claimant, his agent, or his employee; and "(5) it is substantiated as prescribed in regulations of the Secretary concerned. For the purposes of clause (1), the dates of the beginning and end of an armed conflict are the dates established by concurrent resolution of Congress or by a determination of the President. "(c) Payment may not be made under this section for reimbursement for medical, hospital, or burial services furnished at the expense of the United States or of any State or the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico.

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