§ 763a–1. Retirement, exceptions for age and period of service

• (1) reach the age of sixty-four years prior to July 1, 1940 , or
• (2) be the occupant of an office or position abolished prior to July 1, 1940 , may in the discretion of the head of his executive department be retired with annual compensation as provided in said section: Provided, however , That no such officer or employee shall be retired hereunder unless he shall have been in the service of the Government not less than thirty years at the time of retirement. Any officer or employee to whom this section applies who is not retired hereunder prior to reaching the age of sixty-five years shall, upon reaching such age, become eligible for retirement in accordance with the provisions of said section 763 of this title , and may not be retired under the provisions of this section. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to affect the application of said section to any officer or employee of the Lighthouse Service to whom this section does not apply.

§ 763a–2. Application to persons of Coast Guard

The provisions of sections 763 and 763a–1 of this title shall not apply to persons of the Coast Guard other than officers and employees of the former Lighthouse Service who, on June 30, 1939 , met the requirements for retirement (except those relating to age and period of service) of said sections.

§ 717. Detail of Army engineers as construction aids

The President may detail officers of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army for consultation or to superintend the construction or repair of any aid to navigation authorized by Congress.

§ 725. Prohibition against officers and employees being interested in contracts for materials, etc.

No Commandant of the Coast Guard, superintendent of lighthouses, lightkeeper, or other person in any manner connected with the light-house service, shall be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract for labor, materials, or supplies for the light-house service, or in any patent, plan, or mode of construction or illumination, or in any article of supply for the light-house service.

§ 727. Lighthouse and other sites; necessity for cession by State of jurisdiction

No lighthouse, beacon, public piers, or landmark, shall be built or erected on any site until cession of jurisdiction over the same has been made to the United States.

§ 728. Sufficiency of cession by State; service of State process in lands ceded

A cession by a State of jurisdiction over a place selected as the site of a lighthouse, or other structure or work, shall be deemed sufficient within section 727 of this title , notwithstanding it contains a reservation that process issued under authority of such State may continue to be served within such place. And notwithstanding any such cession of jurisdiction contains no such reservation, all process may be served and executed within the place ceded, in the same manner as if no cession had been made.

§ 730a. Sites for pierhead beacons

The Secretary of Transportation is authorized whenever he shall deem it advisable, to acquire, by donation or purchase in behalf of the United States, the right to use and occupy sites for pierhead beacons the establishment of which has been, or shall hereafter be, authorized by Congress.

§ 735. Marking pierheads in certain lakes

The Commandant of the Coast Guard shall properly mark all pierheads belonging to the United States situated on the northern and northwestern lakes, whenever he is duly notified by the department charged with the construction or repair of pierheads that the construction or repair of any such pierheads has been completed.

§ 743. Lighthouse districts

The ocean, gulf, and lake coasts and the rivers of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the naval station in Cuba shall be arranged into not exceeding nineteen lighthouse districts.

§ 745a. Traveling expenses of new appointees to isolated posts outside United States

In all appropriations hereafter made for “General expenses, Coast Guard,” there is authorized to be made available not exceeding $1,500 in any fiscal year, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation, for paying the actual and necessary traveling expenses of new appointees from ports of embarkation in the United States to first post of duty at isolated light stations, in districts outside the continental limits of the United States.

§ 747b. Lighthouse keepers; traveling expenses incurred in obtaining medical attention

On and after February 25, 1929 , the appropriation, “General expenses, Coast Guard,” shall be available, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation, for paying the actual and necessary traveling expenses of lighthouse keepers at isolated stations incurred in obtaining medical attention.

§ 748. Teachers for children of lighthouse keepers

The appropriation, “General expenses, Coast Guard,” shall be available, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation, for the payment of traveling and subsistence expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses.

§ 748a. Transportation expenses for school children

In all appropriations hereafter made for “General expenses, Coast Guard” there is authorized to be made available not exceeding $2,500 in any fiscal year, for the transportation, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation, of the children of lighthouse keepers at isolated light stations where necessary to enable such children to attend school.

§ 754a. Purchase of commissary and quartermaster supplies

Officers and crews of vessels of the Lighthouse Service and light keepers and depot keepers of the Lighthouse Service shall be permitted to purchase commissary and quartermaster supplies from the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps at the price charged officers and enlisted members of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps.

§ 763. Retirement for age of officers and employees generally; retirement pay; waiver of retirement pay

• (1) shall have reached the age of fifty-five years, after having been thirty years in the active service of the Government,
• (2) shall have reached the age of sixty-two years, after having been twenty-five years in the active service of the Government, or
• (3) are involuntarily separated from further performance of duty, except by removal for cause on charges of misconduct or delinquency, after completing twenty-five years in the active service of the Government, or after completing twenty years of such service and after reaching the age of fifty years, may at their option be retired from further performance of duty; and all such officers and employees who shall have reached the age of seventy years shall be compulsorily retired from further performance of duty: Provided , That the annual compensation of persons so retired shall be a sum equal to one-fortieth of the average annual pay received for the last three years of service for each year of active service in the Lighthouse Service, or in a department or branch of the Government having a retirement system, not to exceed in any case thirty-fortieths of such average annual pay received: Provided further , That the retirement pay computed under the preceding proviso for any such officer or employee retiring under clause
• (3) shall be reduced by one-sixth of 1 per centum for each full month the officer or employee is under fifty-five years of age at the date of retirement: Provided further , That such retirement pay shall not include any amount on account of subsistence or other allowance: Provided further , That the retirement provisions and pay shall not apply to persons in the field service of the Lighthouse Service whose duties do not require substantially all their time. Any person entitled to retirement pay under this section may decline to accept all or any part of such retirement pay by a waiver signed and filed with the Secretary of the Treasury. Such waiver may be revoked in writing at any time, but no payment of the retirement pay waived shall be made covering the period during which such waiver was in effect.

§ 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.

§ 766. Restoration to active duty after retirement for disability

Any officer or employee retired under section 765 of this title may, upon recovery, be restored to active duty, and shall from time to time, before reaching the age at which he may be retired under section 763 of this title be reexamined by a medical officer of the United States upon the request of the Secretary of Transportation.

§ 770. Regulations for expenditure of moneys accruing from commutation of rations and provisions

Money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions for working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons on board of such tenders or vessels, after payment on proper vouchers to the officer in charge of the mess of such vessel or party, as provided by law, may be expended and accounted for pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation, notwithstanding the provisions of sections 1321 and 1322(a) of title 31.

§ 771. Benefits for surviving spouses of Lighthouse Service employees; death of employee during retirement; amount of payment

Where—

• (1) any former employee of the Lighthouse Service has died or shall hereafter die at a time when that employee was receiving or was entitled to receive retirement pay under section 763 of this title , as amended and supplemented, and
• (2) the surviving spouse of the former employee was married to the former employee prior to the retirement of the former employee from the Lighthouse Service and has not remarried—

§ 772. Death of employee due to non-service-connected causes after 15 years’ service; amount of payment

Where—

• (1) any employee of the Lighthouse Service has died or shall hereafter die from non-service-connected causes after fifteen or more years of employment in such service, and
• (2) the surviving spouse of the employee has not since remarried,

§ 773. Application for benefits

Application for the benefits of sections 771 to 775 of this title shall be made in such manner and form as the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe.

§ 774. Rules and regulations

The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall perform, or cause to be performed, such acts, and shall make such rules and regulations, as may be necessary or proper to carry out the provisions of sections 771 to 775 of this title.

§ 775. Payments nonassignable and exempt from process

No payment under sections 771 to 775 of this title shall be assignable, either in law or in equity, or be subject to execution, levy, lien, attachment, garnishment, or other legal process.

§ 776. Payment out of Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund

Annuities authorized by sections 771 to 775 of this title may, on and after December 23, 2011 , be paid out of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund.