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PUBLIC LAW 88-431-AUG. 14, 1964

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Public Law 88-431 AN ACT August 14, 1964 To amend section 406 of title 37, United States Code, with regard to the advance [H. R. 4739] movement of dependents and baggage and household effects of members of the uniformed services.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 406 of. uniformed servtitle 37, United States Code, is amended by adding the following new ^"^xravei and transsubsection at the end thereof: portation aiiow" (h) In the case of a member who is serving at a station outside the ances. United States or in Hawaii or Alaska, if the Secretary concerned 76 Stat. 473. determines it to be in the best interests of the member or his dependents and the United States, he may, when orders directing a change of permanent station for the member concerned have not been issued, or when they have been issued but cannot be used as authority for the transportation of his dependents, baggage, and household effects— " (1) authorize the movement of the member's dependents, baggage, and household effects at that station to an appropriate location in the United States or its possessions and prescribe transportation in kind, reimbursement therefor, or a monetary allowance in place thereof, as the case may be, as authorized under subsection (a) or (b) of this section; and "(2) authorize the transportation of one motor vehicle owned by the member and for his or his dependents' personal use to that location on a vessel owned, leased, or chartered by the United States or by privately owned American shipping services. If the member's baggage and household effects are in nontemporary storage under subsection (d) of this section, the Secretary concerned may authorize their movement to the location concerned and prescribe transportation in kind or reimbursement therefor, as authorized under subsection (b) of this section. For the purposes of this section, a member's unmarried child for whom the member received transportation in kind to his station outside the United States or in Hawaii or Alaska, reimbursement therefor, or a monetary allowance in place thereof and who became 21 years of age while the member was serving at that station shall be considered as a dependent of the member.' (b) The text of section 2634 of title 10, United States Code, is ^^ ^*^*- unamended to read as follows: "When a member of an armed force is ordered to make a permanent Motor vehicles. change of station, one motor vehicle owned by him and for his personal use may be transported to his new station at the expense of the United States— "(1) on a vessel owned, leased, or chartered by the United States; or "(2) by privately owned American shipping services; unless a motor vehicle owned by him was transported in advance of that permanent change of station under section 406(h) of title 37." (c)(1) Section 3(a) of the Act of August 10, 1956, ch. 1041, as amended (33 U.S.C. 857a(a)), is amended by adding the following ^^l^ll^^^g\^^'' new clause at the end thereof: " (11) Section 2634, Motor vehicles: for members on permanent change of station." 31-667 0-65—31

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