Title 24 — Hospitals and Asylums
Chapter 1 — Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others
§ 34. Hospitalization of persons outside continental limits of United States; persons entitled; availability of other facilities; rate of charges; disposition of payments
Statutory text
In addition to those persons, including the dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel, now authorized to receive hospitalization at naval hospitals, hospitalization and dispensary service may be provided at naval hospitals and dispensaries outside of the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska, to the officers and employees of any department or agency of the Federal Government, to employees of a contractor with the United States or his subcontractor, to the dependents of such persons, and in emergencies to such other persons as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe: Provided, That such hospitalization and dispensary service to other than the dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel shall be permitted only where facilities are not otherwise available in reasonably accessible and appropriate non-Federal hospitals. The charge for hospitalization or dispensary service for persons other than dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel as specified in this section shall be at such rates as the President shall from time to time prescribe, and shall be deposited as provided in section 32 1 of this title.
Footnotes
- 1 See References in Text note below.
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.
Pub. L. 78–95 § 4 · 57 Stat. 80
Enacted · 24 U.S.C. § 34
(May 10, 1943, ch. 95, § 4, 57 Stat. 81.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 10, 1943, ch. 95, § 4, 57 Stat. 81.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. In addition to those persons, including the dependents of Civilian employees, etc., outside U. S. naval and Marine Corps personnel, now authorized to receive hospitalization at naval hospitals, hospitalization and dispensary service may be provided at naval hospitals and dispensaries outside of the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska, to the officers and employees of any department or agency of the Federal Government, to employees of a contractor with the United States or his subcontractor, to the dependents of such persons, and in emergencies to such other persons as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe: Provided, That such hospitalization and dispensary service to other than the dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel shall be permitted only where facilities are not otherwise available in reasonably accessible and appropriate non-Federal hospitals. The Rates. charge for hospitalization or dispensary service for persons other than dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel as specified in this section shall be at such rates as the President shall from time to time prescribe, and shall be deposited as provided in section 2.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 32 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by act June 7, 1956, ch. 374, § 306(2), 70 Stat. 254. See section 1071 et seq. of Title 10, Armed Forces.
Executive Documents
Delegation of Functions
Authority of President under this section to prescribe from time to time uniform rates of charges for hospitalization and dispensary services delegated to Secretary of Defense, provided, that authority hereby delegated may not be redelegated to any officer in Department of the Navy, Department of the Air Force, or Department of the Army, see Ex. Ord. No. 11609, § 5, , 36 F.R. 13747, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.
Executive Order No. 11116
Ex. Ord. No. 11116, , 28 F.R. 8075, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 11230, , 30 F.R. 8447, which provided rates of charges for hospitalization and dispensary services, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 12553, , 51 F.R. 7237.
Credits
(May 10, 1943, ch. 95, § 4, 57 Stat. 81.)