§ 765. — Retirement for disability.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC765]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 16--LIGHTHOUSES
Sec. 765. Retirement for disability
Any officer or employee to whom section 763 of this title applies,
who has been in the active service of the Government fifteen years or
more and who is found, after examination by a medical officer of the
United States, to be disabled for useful and efficient service by reason
of disease or injury not due to vicious habits, intemperance, or willful
misconduct on his part, shall be retired under rules to be prescribed by
the Secretary of Transportation on an annuity computed in the manner
provided in said section.
(Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 523, Sec. 1, 43 Stat. 1261; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II,
Sec. 2(a), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1432; Pub. L. 89-
670, Sec. 6(b)(1), Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 938.)
Transfer of Functions
The officers or employees to be retired refer to the officers and
employees of the Lighthouse Service. The Lighthouse Service was under
the Secretary of Commerce prior to the transfer and consolidation of the
Bureau of Lighthouses, of which the Lighthouse Service was a part, with
the Coast Guard which was under the Secretary of the Treasury by Reorg.
Plan No. II, Sec. 2(a), set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees. Subsequently, the functions of the Secretary
of the Treasury relating to the Coast Guard were transferred to the
Secretary of Transportation by section 6(b)(1) of Pub. L. 89-670. See
section 108 of Title 49, Transportation.
For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the
Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of
Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security,
and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d),
552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of
Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified,
set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 766 of this title.
