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[CITE: 38USC8507]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
            PART VI--ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY
 
     CHAPTER 85--DISPOSITION OF DECEASED VETERANS' PERSONAL PROPERTY
 
           SUBCHAPTER I--PROPERTY LEFT ON DEPARTMENT FACILITY
 
Sec. 8507. Payment of small shipping charges

    Upon receipt of a proper claim for such property under the 
provisions of this subchapter the Secretary is hereby authorized, in the 
Secretary's discretion and in accordance with regulations prescribed by 
the Secretary, to pay mailing or shipping charges not to exceed $25 in 
the case of each deceased veteran as hereinabove defined.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1259, Sec. 5207; Pub. L. 99-
576, title VII, Sec. 701(98), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3300; renumbered 
Sec. 8507, Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, Sec. 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 
Stat. 238; Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 
404, 405.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-40 renumbered section 5207 of this title as this 
section.
    Pub. L. 102-83 substituted ``Secretary'' for ``Administrator'' in 
two places and ``Secretary's'' for ``Administrator's''.
    1986--Pub. L. 99-576 substituted ``the Administrator's'' for ``his'' 
and ``prescribed by the Administrator'' for ``by him promulgated''.
