Pub. L. 92-328, tit. I, sec. 104

Sec. 104. (a) Subsection (a) of section 3203 of title 38, United States Code, is repealed. (b) Subsection (d) of such section 3203 is redesignated as subsection (a) of such section 3203. (c) Paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (b) of such section 3203 are redesignated as paragraph (1) and as so redesignated are amended to read as follows: “(b) (1) In any case in which a veteran having neither wife nor child is being furnished hospital treatment, institutional or domiciliary care without charge or otherwise by the United States, or any political subdivision thereof, is rated by the Veterans’ Administration in accordance with regulations as being incompetent by reason of mental illness, and his estate from any source equals or exceeds $1,500, further payments of pension, compensation, or emergency officers’ retirement pay shall not be made until the estate is reduced to $500. The am cunt which would be payable but for this paragraph shall be paid to the veteran in a lump sum; however, no payment of a lump sum herein authorized shall tie made to the veteran until after the expiration of six months following a finding of competency and in the event of the veteran’s death before payment of such lump sum no part thereof shall be payable.” (d) Paragraphs (3) and (4) of subsection (b) of such section 3203 are redesignated as paragraphs (2) and (3) respectively; and the references in said redesignated paragraph (2) to “paragraph (2)” 86 Stat. 395and “Paragraph (2)” are changed to “paragraph (1)” and “Paragraph (1)”, respectively. (e) Subsection (c) of such section 3203 is amended by deleting “(a) or”. (f) Subsection (e) of such section 3203 is amended by deleting “, compensation, or retirement pay”; and as so amended is redesignated as subsection (d). (g) Subsection (f) of such section 3203 is redesignated as subsection (e).