Volume 65 · 701
Public Law 82–246
To amend the Public Health Service Act, as amended, so as to provide for equality of grade, pay, and allowance between certain officers of the Public Health Service and comparable officers of the Army, and for other purposes.
Approved October 31, 1951
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Public Health Service Act, as amended, so as to provide for equality of grade, pay, and allowance between certain officers of the Public Health Service and comparable officers of the Army, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first sentence of subsection (a) of section 206 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended (42 U. S. C. 207; 58 Stat. 684), is hereby amended to read as follows:
“(a) The Surgeon General, during the period of his appointment as such, shall be of the same grade, with the same pay and allowances, as the Surgeon General of the Army; the Deputy Surgeon General while assigned as such, shall have the grade corresponding with the grade of major general, with the pay and allowances thereof; and the Chief Dental Officer, while assigned as such, shall have the grade, with the same pay and allowances, as is prescribed by law for the officer of the Dental Corps selected and appointed as Assistant Surgeon General of the Army.”
Approved October 31, 1951.