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title: "5 U.S.C. § 5944"
description: "Repealed. Pub. L. 98164, title I, § 127(b)(1), Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 1027]"
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# 5 U.S.C. § 5944 - Repealed. Pub. L. 98164, title I, § 127(b)(1), Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 1027]
## Notes
Section, Pub. L. 89554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 513, authorized head of Executive department or military department which maintained a permanent staff of employees in foreign countries to pay burial expenses and expenses in connection with last illness and death of a native employee of his department in a country in which Secretary of State determined it was customary for employers to pay these expenses, and in foreign countries in which custom did not exist, on finding that immediate family of deceased was destitute, he could pay such of expenses as employee in charge of the office abroad in which deceased was employed considered proper. See section 3968(a)(1) of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.