5 U.S.C. § 6321 — Absence of veterans to attend funeral services
submitted 60 years ago by Pub. L. 89-554 to r/title-5-GOVERNMENT-ORGANIZATION-AND-EMPLOYEES · 117 words · no verdicts yet
A qualifying war or campaign veteran, or member of a qualifying veterans’ honor group, may be excused from work for certain funeral duties. The time needed may not exceed four hours in one day and causes no pay or annual-leave loss.
An Executive-agency employee who is a war veteran, a veteran of a campaign or expedition with an authorized campaign badge, or a member of an honor or ceremonial group of such veterans may be excused without lost pay or annual-leave deduction for time needed, up to 4 hours in one day, to serve as an active pallbearer, firing-squad member, or guard of honor at the funeral of an armed-forces member whose remains return from abroad for final interment in the United States.
An employee in or under an Executive agency who is a veteran of a war, or of a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized, or a member of an honor or ceremonial group of an organization of those veterans, may be excused from duty without loss of pay or deduction from annual leave for the time necessary, not to exceed 4 hours in any one day, to enable him to participate as an active pallbearer or as a member of a firing squad or a guard of honor in a funeral ceremony for a member of the armed forces whose remains are returned from abroad for final interment in the United States.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 521.)
- 1966Enacted · Pub. L. 89-554 · 80 Stat. 521
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