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[CITE: 33USC765]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                         CHAPTER 16--LIGHTHOUSES
 
Sec. 765. Retirement for disability

    Any officer or employee to whom section 763 of this title applies, 
who has been in the active service of the Government fifteen years or 
more and who is found, after examination by a medical officer of the 
United States, to be disabled for useful and efficient service by reason 
of disease or injury not due to vicious habits, intemperance, or willful 
misconduct on his part, shall be retired under rules to be prescribed by 
the Secretary of Transportation on an annuity computed in the manner 
provided in said section.

(Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 523, Sec. 1, 43 Stat. 1261; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, 
Sec. 2(a), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1432; Pub. L. 89-
670, Sec. 6(b)(1), Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 938.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    The officers or employees to be retired refer to the officers and 
employees of the Lighthouse Service. The Lighthouse Service was under 
the Secretary of Commerce prior to the transfer and consolidation of the 
Bureau of Lighthouses, of which the Lighthouse Service was a part, with 
the Coast Guard which was under the Secretary of the Treasury by Reorg. 
Plan No. II, Sec. 2(a), set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees. Subsequently, the functions of the Secretary 
of the Treasury relating to the Coast Guard were transferred to the 
Secretary of Transportation by section 6(b)(1) of Pub. L. 89-670. See 
section 108 of Title 49, Transportation.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 766 of this title.
