Title 24 — Hospitals and Asylums
Chapter 1 — Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others
§ 37. Manufacture of products by patients at naval hospitals; ownership of products
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to furnish materials for the manufacture or production by patients of products incident to the convalescence and rehabilitation of such patients in naval hospitals and other naval medical facilities, and ownership thereof shall be vested in the patients manufacturing or producing such products, except that the ownership of items manufactured or produced specifically for the use of a naval hospital or other naval medical facility shall be vested in the Government and such items shall be accounted for and disposed of accordingly.
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. 79–756 § 27 · 60 Stat. 853
Enacted · 24 U.S.C. § 37
(Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 27, 60 Stat. 856.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 27, 60 Stat. 856.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 27. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to furnish materials for the manufacture or production by patients of products incident to the convalescence and rehabilitation of such patients in Ownership. naval hospitals and other naval medical facilities, and ownership thereof shall be vested in the patients manufacturing or producing such products, except that the ownership of items manufactured or produced specifically for the use of a naval hospital or other naval medical facility shall be vested in the Government and such items shall be accounted for and disposed of accordingly.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Delegation of Powers and Authority
Act Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 39, 60 Stat. 858, authorized Secretary of the Navy to delegate to such persons in Naval Establishment and to such extent as he may deem proper, with or without authority to make successive redelegations, authority conferred upon Secretary by this section, except authority to prescribe regulations. Such section 39 was repealed by act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 53, 70A Stat. 641, less its applicability to this section and section 21a of this title.
Credits
(Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 27, 60 Stat. 856.)