42 U.S.C. § 3796D
Section 3796d · Purposes
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case State v. Manypenny (2003)
Most recently applied in State v. Manypenny (June 2003)
The purposes of this part are—
(1) to enhance the appeal of service in public safety agencies;
(2) to extend the benefits of higher education to qualified and deserving persons who, by virtue of the death of or total disability of an eligible officer, may not be able to afford it otherwise; and
(3) to allow the family members of eligible officers to attain the vocational and educational status which they would have attained had a parent or spouse not been killed or disabled in the line of duty.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
1998—Par. (1). Pub. L. 105–390 substituted “public safety” for “civilian Federal law enforcement”.