Chapter 523. To provide for retirement for disability in the Lighthouse Service
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CHAP. 523.— An Act To provide for retirement for disability in the Lighthouse Service. March 4, 1925.[[S. 3613](/us/bill/68/s/3613).][[Public, No. 598](/us/pl/68/598).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Lighthouse Service.Field service officers, etc., to be retired for disability.Vol. 40, p. 608. That hereafter any officer or employee to whom section 6 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize aids to navigation and for other works in the Light-house Service, and for other purposes,” approved June 20, 1918, as amended, applies, who has been in the active service of the Government fifteen years or more and who is found, after examination by1262 a medical officer of the United States, to be disabled for useful and efficient service by reason of disease or injury not clue to vicious habits, intemperance, or willful misconduct on his part, shall beAnnuity. retired under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce on an annuity computed in the manner provided in such Act.
Sec. 2. Return to active duty if recovering before retirement age. Any such officer or employee may. upon recovery, be restored to active duty, and shall from time to time, before reaching the age at which he may be retired under such Act, be reexamined by a medical officer of the United States upon the request of the Secretary of Commerce. Approved, March 4, 1925.