1995 U.S. Code
Title 24 - HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS
CHAPTER 10 - ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME
SUBCHAPTER I - ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF RETIREMENT HOME
Sec. 421 - Payment of residents for services

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§421. Payment of residents for services (a) Authority

The Chairman of the Armed Forces Retirement Board is authorized to accept for the Armed Forces Retirement Home the part-time or intermittent services of a resident of the Retirement Home, to pay the resident for such services, and to fix the rate of such pay.

(b) Employment status

A resident receiving pay for services authorized under subsection (a) of this section shall not, by reason of performing such services and receiving pay for such services, be considered as—

(1) receiving the pay of a position or being employed in a position for the purposes of section 5532 of title 5; or

(2) being an employee of the United States for any other purpose.

(c) “Position” defined

In subsection (b)(1) of this section, the term “position” has the meaning given that term in section 5531 of title 5.

(Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title XV, §1521, as added Pub. L. 102–484, div. A, title III, §385(a), Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2394.)

Forgiveness of Indebtedness

Section 385(b) of Pub. L. 102–484 provided that: “The Chairman of the Armed Forces Retirement Board is authorized to cancel the indebtedness of any resident of the Armed Forces Retirement Home for repayment to the United States of amounts paid the resident for services provided to the Retirement Home before the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 23, 1992] if the Chairman determines that it would be in the interest of the United States to do so and against equity and good conscience to require the repayment.”