Pub. L. 92-540, tit. V, sec. 504

Sec. 504. The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 501 et seq.), is amended as follows: (1) Section 101(1) (50 U.S.C. App. 511(1)) is amended by striking out “The term ‘persons in military service’” and inserting in lieu thereof “The term ‘person in the military service’, the term ‘persons in military service’,”. (2) The following new section is inserted after section 700: “Sec. 701. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a power of attorney which— (1) was duly executed by a person in the military service who is in a missing status (as defined in section 551(2) of title 37, United States Code); (2) designates that person’s spouse, parent, or other named relative as his attorney in fact for certain specified, or all, purposes; and (3) expires by its terms after that person entered a missing status, and before or after the effective date of this section; shall be automatically extended for the period that the person is in a missing status. “(b) No power of attorney executed after the effective date of this section by a person in the military service may be extended under subsection (a) if the document by its terms clearly indicates that the 86 Stat. 1099power granted expires on the date specified even though that person, after the date of execution of the document, enters a missing status. “(c) This section applies only to persons in military service who executed powers of attorney during the Vietnam era (as defined in section 101(29) of title 38, United States Code).”