Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 22 — Indian Hospitals and Health Facilities
§ 2005. Financial assistance by Surgeon General
Statutory text
Whenever the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, in carrying out his functions under subchapter I of this chapter with respect to the provision of health services to Indians in any particular area, determines, after consultation with such Indians, that the provision of financial assistance to one or more public or other nonprofit agencies or organizations for the construction of a community hospital constitutes a method of making needed hospital facilities available for such Indians which is more desirable and effective than direct Federal construction, he may provide such financial assistance from funds available for the construction of Indian health facilities for such Indians.
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. 85–151 § 1 · 71 Stat. 370
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 2005
(Pub. L. 85–151, § 1, Aug. 16, 1957, 71 Stat. 370.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 85–151, § 1, Aug. 16, 1957, 71 Stat. 370.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) which is operated in connection with a hospital, or
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Office of Surgeon General abolished by section 3 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. , 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, and functions thereof transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by section 1 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, set out as a note under section 202 of this title. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education. Office of Surgeon General reestablished within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, see Notice of Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, , 52 F.R. 11754.