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[CITE: 10USC6160]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
             CHAPTER 561--MISCELLANEOUS RIGHTS AND BENEFITS
 
Sec. 6160. Pension to persons serving ten years

    (a) Every disabled person who has served in the Navy or Marine Corps 
as an enlisted member or petty officer, or both, for ten or more years, 
and has not been discharged for misconduct, may apply to the Secretary 
of the Navy for aid.
    (b) Upon receipt of an application under subsection (a), the 
Secretary of the Navy may convene a board of not less than three naval 
officers (one of whom shall be a surgeon) to examine into the condition 
of the applicant, and to recommend a suitable amount for his relief, and 
for a specified time. If the Secretary of the Navy approves the 
recommendation, he shall so certify to the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs, who shall pay a pension in such amount monthly to the 
applicant.
    (c) No naval pension under this section shall be paid at a rate in 
excess of the rate payable to a veteran of World War I for permanent and 
total non-service-connected disability, unless the applicant's 
disability is service-connected, in which case the naval pension payable 
to him shall not exceed the rate of disability compensation payable for 
total disability to a veteran of any war, or of peacetime service, as 
the case may be. In the case of any initial award of naval pension 
granted before July 14, 1943, where the person granted the naval pension 
is also entitled to pension or compensation under laws administered by 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, such naval pension shall not exceed 
one-fourth of such pension or compensation.

(Added Pub. L. 85-56, title XXII, Sec. 2201(31)(C), June 17, 1957, 71 
Stat. 161; amended Pub. L. 85-857, Sec. 13(v)(4), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 
Stat. 1268; Pub. L. 99-145, title XIII, Sec. 1301(c)(1), Nov. 8, 1985, 
99 Stat. 736; Pub. L. 101-189, div. A, title XVI, Sec. 1621(a)(2), Nov. 
29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1603; Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, title XIV, 
Sec. 1484(j)(4), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1719.)


                               Amendments

    1990--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101-510 substituted ``Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs'' for ``Veterans' Administration''.
    1989--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101-189 substituted ``Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs'' for ``Administrator of Veterans' Affairs''.
    1985--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99-145 substituted ``enlisted member'' 
for ``enlisted man''.
    1958--Pub. L. 85-857 limited naval pensions granted before July 14, 
1943 to not more than one-fourth of any pension or compensation which 
the person is entitled to receive under laws administered by the 
Veterans' Administration.


                    Effective Date of 1958 Amendment

    Section 13(v)(4) of Pub. L. 85-857 provided that the amendment made 
by that section is effective as of Jan. 1, 1958.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Jan. 1, 1958, see section 2301 of Pub. L. 85-56.
