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[CITE: 38USC1958]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
                          CHAPTER 19--INSURANCE
 
         SUBCHAPTER II--UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE
 
Sec. 1958. Statutory total permanent disability

    Without prejudice to any other cause of disability, the permanent 
loss of the use of both feet, of both hands, or of both eyes, or of one 
foot and one hand, or of one foot and one eye, or of one hand and one 
eye, or the loss of hearing of both ears, or the organic loss of speech, 
shall be deemed total permanent disability for insurance purposes. This 
section shall be deemed to be in effect on and after April 6, 1917, and 
shall apply only to automatic insurance, yearly renewable term 
insurance, and United States Government life insurance issued prior to 
December 15, 1936.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1163, Sec. 758; renumbered 
Sec. 1958, Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 758 of this title as this 
section.
