Volume 78
Public Law 88–424
To provide medical care for certain persons engaged on board a vessel in the care, preservation, or navigation of such vessel.
Approved August 13, 1964
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide medical care for certain persons engaged on board a vessel in the care, preservation, or navigation of such vessel.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (a) of section 322 of the Public Health Service Act (42 US.C. 249) is amended by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (6), by striking out. the period at the end of paragraph (7) and inserting in lieu thereof “; and”, and by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:
“(8) Persons who own vessels registered, enrolled, or licensed under the maritime laws of the United States, who are engaged in commercial fishing operations, and who accompany such vessels on such fishing operations, and a substantial part of whose services in connection with such fishing operations are comparable to services performed by seamen employed on such vessel or on vessels engaged in similar operations.
Approved August 13, 1964.