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Title 24 — Hospitals and Asylums

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

§ 35. Limitation of medical, surgical or hospital services

Statutory text

Hospitalization of the dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel and of the persons outside the naval service mentioned in section 34 of this title shall be furnished only for acute medical and surgical conditions, exclusive of nervous, mental, or contagious diseases or those requiring domiciliary care. Routine dental care, other than dental prosthesis and orthodontia, may be furnished to such persons who are outside the naval service under the same conditions as are prescribed in section 34 of this title for hospital and dispensary care for such persons.

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. 78–95 § 5 · 57 Stat. 80

    Enacted · 24 U.S.C. § 35

    May 10, 1943, ch. 95, § 5, 57 Stat. 81

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    May 10, 1943, ch. 95, § 5, 57 Stat. 81

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. Hospitalization of the dependents of naval and Marine Treatment, restrictions. Corps personnel and of the persons outside the naval service mentioned in section 4 of this Act shall be furnished only for acute medical and surgical conditions, exclusive of nervous, mental, or contagious diseases or those requiring domiciliary care. Dental treatment shall be administered only as an adjunct to inpatient hospital care and shall not include dental prosthesis or orthodontia.

  2. Federal Employees Benefits Improvement Act of 1986

    Pub. L. 99–251 title III § 304 · 100 Stat. 14

    Amended · 24 U.S.C. § 35

    Pub. L. 99–251 amended second sentence generally. Prior to amendment, second sentence read as follows: “Dental treatment shall be administered only as an adjunct to inpatient hospital care and shall not include dental prosthesis or orthodontia.”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 99–251 amended second sentence generally. Prior to amendment, second sentence read as follows: “Dental treatment shall be administered only as an adjunct to inpatient hospital care and shall not include dental prosthesis or orthodontia.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 304. DENTAL CARE IN GOVERNMENT MEDICAL FACULTIES OVERSEAS. The second sentence of section 5 of the Act of May 10, 1943 (24 U.S.C. 35; 57 Stat. 81) is amended to read as follows: “Routine dental care, other than dental prosthesis and orthodontia, may be furnished to such persons who are outside the naval service under the same 24 USC 34. conditions as are prescribed in section 4 of this Act for hospital and dispensary care for such persons.”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–251 amended second sentence generally. Prior to amendment, second sentence read as follows: “Dental treatment shall be administered only as an adjunct to inpatient hospital care and shall not include dental prosthesis or orthodontia.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Partial Repeal; Effective Date

Act June 7, 1956, ch. 374, § 306(2), 70 Stat. 254, repealed this section except insofar as it relates to persons outside the Naval Service mentioned in section 34 of this title. Section 307 of act June 7, 1956, ch. 374, 70 Stat. 254, provided that such repeal was effective six months after .

Credits

1943–1986 · 2 acts
  1. 1943May 10, 1943, ch. 95, § 5, 57 Stat. 81
  2. 1986Pub. L. 99–251, title III, § 304, , 100 Stat. 26.
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(May 10, 1943, ch. 95, § 5, 57 Stat. 81; Pub. L. 99–251, title III, § 304, , 100 Stat. 26.)

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