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Title 24 — Hospitals and Asylums

Chapter 1 — Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others

§ 16a. Additional personnel for patients of Department of Veterans Affairs in naval hospitals

Statutory text

On and after , additional commissioned, warranted, appointed, enlisted, and civilian personnel of the Medical Department of the Navy, required for the care of patients of the Department of Veterans Affairs in naval hospitals, may be employed in addition to the numbers annually appropriated for.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 79–130 § 1 · 59 Stat. 201

    Enacted · 24 U.S.C. § 16a

    May 29, 1945, ch. 130, § 1, 59 Stat. 208

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    May 29, 1945, ch. 130, § 1, 59 Stat. 208

  2. Pub. L. 102–54 § 13(i)(1) · 105 Stat. 267

    Substituted · 24 U.S.C. § 16a

    Pub. L. 102–54 substituted “Department of Veterans Affairs” for “United States Veterans’ Administration”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 102–54 substituted “Department of Veterans Affairs” for “United States Veterans’ Administration”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) The Naval Appropriation Act, 1946 (59 Stat. 201 et seq.), is amended in the first proviso in the fourth paragraph under the heading “BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS” (24 U.S.C. 16a; 59 Stat. 208) by striking out “United States Veterans Administration” and inserting in lieu thereof “Department of Veterans Affairs”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is from act , popularly known as the Naval Appropriation Act, 1946.

Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–54 substituted “Department of Veterans Affairs” for “United States Veterans’ Administration”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Similar Provisions

Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts:

June 22, 1944, ch. 269, § 1, 58 Stat. 308.

June 26, 1943, ch. 147, § 101, 57 Stat. 204.

Credits

1945–1991 · 2 acts
  1. 1945May 29, 1945, ch. 130, § 1, 59 Stat. 208
  2. 1991Pub. L. 102–54, § 13(i)(1), , 105 Stat. 276.
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(May 29, 1945, ch. 130, § 1, 59 Stat. 208; Pub. L. 102–54, § 13(i)(1), , 105 Stat. 276.)

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