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DRAFT OF BILL TO ESTABLISH A RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR AIR LINE PILOTS

AN ACT

To establish a retirement system for air line pilots and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.

DEFINITIONS

Section 1. That for the purposes of this Act --

(a) The term "employer" shall mean any common carrier by air engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, and any carrier by air transporting mail or under contract with the United States Government.

(b) The term "pilot" shall mean any individual who shall be, on the date of enactment here of or thereafter, in the service of one or more employers for compensation. Any individual who, during the thirty-six months ending at the end of the month in which this act was enacted, was in the service of one or more employers in all or part of not less than eight calendar months shall be deemed to have been a pilot on the date of enactment of this act.

(c) An individual is in the services of an employer if

(i) he is subject to the continuing authority of the employer to supervise and direct the manner of rendition of his server, and

(ii) his duties include (A) the command of aircraft while underway, or (B) responsibility for the manipulation of or the manipulation of flight controls of aircraft while underway, including take-off and landing of such a aircraft, or (C) assistance in or relief to the individual responsible for such manipulation of flight controls, and

(iii) he holds a certificate issues by the appropriate agency of the United States Government pursuant to Section 602 of the Civil Aeronautics Act, as amended, authorizing him to serve as a pilot in the scheduled air transportation.

(d) "Interstate and foreign commerce" shall mean the carriage by aircraft of persons of property as a common carrier for compensation or hire under a certificate issued pursuant to Section 401 of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, or the carriage of mail by aircraft, in commerce between respectively --

A place in any State of the United States, or District of Columbia, and a place in any other State of the United States, or between places in the same State of the United States through the air space of any place outside thereof; or between places in the same territory or or possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia;