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PUBLIC LAW 88.-222-DEC. 21, 1963

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Public Law 88-222 AN ACT

December 21, 1963

For the relief of certiiiu persous involved in Mie iieyoriation of forf:e<l or fnimlnleiit (iovenuuent cherks issued at P a r k s Air Force Base. C'alifcM'iiia.

[H. R. 4839]

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(1) to be liable to the I nited htates by reason ot the ne^o- persons. tiation, or presentment for payment, of any forged or fraudulent check which, during the period beginning 'July 1, 1955, and ending March 81, 1958, botli dates inclusive, was drawn on the Treasury of the United States and issued or procured as a result of fraud at Parks Air Force Base, California; and (2) to have negotiated such check or presented it for payment, without actual knowledge of any fact which would constitute notice of an infiniiity in such check or defect in the title of the person negotiating it; is hereby relieved of liability to the United States arising out of his negotiation of such check, or his presentment of such check for payment. SEC. 2. (a) In the case of any person who has paid to the United States, on aceomit of any check referred to in the tirst section of this Act, any amount for which the liability of such person would have been relieved by such first section if this Act had been in effect when such amount was paid to the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to such i3erson, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount equal io all such amounts so paid to the United States by such person. reduced by any amounts recoxered by such person from any prior endorser of such check. (b) 111 the case of any person who has paid to a subsequent endorser of a check referred to in the first section of this Act any amount for which the liability of such person to the Ignited States would haA^e been relieved by such first section if such liability had required payment to the United States and this Act had been in effect when such amount was paid, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to such person, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount equal to all such amounts so paid to any subsequent endorser, reduced by any amounts recovered by such person from any prior endorser of such check. SEC. 3. In the audit and settlement of the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer of the Ignited States, full credit shall he, given for all amounts for which liability is relieved by the first section of this Act, but nothing in this section shall precliule the recovery from any such certifying or disbursing officer of the amount of any loss incurred by the United States because of fraud or criminality on the part of such officer. SEC. 4. Xothing in this Act shall be construed to relieve any person of liability to refund to the Ignited States any amount receixed by him by reason of fraud or bad faith on the part of such person in connection with the negotiation of the checks referred to in paragraph (1) of the first section of this Act.

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