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PUBLIC LAW 88-364-JULY 7, 1964

[78 STAT.

Public Law 88-364 July 7, 1964 [H. R. 6777]_

Veterans. Insurance premiums, waiver. 72 Stat. 1150.

AN ACT To amend section 712 of title 38 of the United & rates Code to provide for waiver of premiums for certain veterans holding national service life insurance policies who become or have become totally disabled before their sixty-fifth birthday.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That effective January 1, 1965, subsection (a) of section 712 of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: " (a) Upon application by the insured and under such regulations as the Administrator may promulgate, payment of premiums on insurance may be waived during the continuous total disability of the insured, which continues or has continued for six or more consecutive months, if such disability began (1) after the date of his application for insurance, (2) while the insurance was in force under premiumpaying conditions, and (3) before the insured's sixty-fifth oirthday^. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in any case m which the total disability of the insured commenced on or after his sixtieth birthday but before his sixty-fifth birthday, the Administrator shall not grant waiver of any premium becoming due prior to January 1, 1965.^' Approved July 7, 1964.

Public Law 88-365 July 9, 1964 [S. 6]

Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964.

AN ACT To authorize the Housing and Home Finance Administrator to provide additional assistance for the development of comprehensive and coordinated mass transportation systems,.both public and private, in metropolitan and other urban areas, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964". F I N D I N G S A N D PURPOSES

SEC. 2. (a) The Congress finds— (1) that the predominant part of the Nation's population is located in its rapidly expanding metropolitan and other urban areas, which generally cross the boundary lines of local jurisdictions and often extend into two or more States; (2) that the welfare and vitality of urban areas, the satisfactory movement of people and goods within such areas, and the effectiveness of housing, urban renewal, highway, and other federally aided programs are being jeopardized by the deterioration or inadequate provision of urban transportation facilities and services, the intensification of traffic congestion, and the lack of coordinated transportation and other development planning on a comprehensive and continuing basis; and (3) that Federal financial assistance for the development of efficient and coordinated mass transportation systems is essential to the solution of these urban problems.

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