Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part A · Chapter 6A — Public Health Service
§ 216. Regulations
Statutory text
Prescription by President: appointments, retirement, etc.
The President shall from time to time prescribe regulations with respect to the appointment, promotion, retirement, termination of commission, titles, pay, uniforms, allowances (including increased allowances for foreign service), and discipline of the commissioned corps of the Service.
Promulgation by Surgeon General; administration of Service
The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, unless specifically otherwise provided, shall promulgate all other regulations necessary to the administration of the Service, including regulations with respect to uniforms for employees, and regulations with respect to the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property of the Service.
Preference to school of medicine
No regulation relating to qualifications for appointment of medical officers or employees shall give preference to any school of medicine.
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. 78–373 · 58 Stat. 682
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 216
July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 215, 58 Stat. 690
Source evidence
Code source credit
July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 215, 58 Stat. 690Public Law not identified
Struck · 42 U.S.C. § 216(b)
Subsec. (b). Act Oct. 12, 1949, struck out references to travel and transportation of household goods and effects
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (b). Act Oct. 12, 1949, struck out references to travel and transportation of household goods and effects.
0 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1949—Subsec. (b). Act , struck out references to travel and transportation of household goods and effects.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” in subsec. (b) pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
Effective Date of 1949 Amendment
Amendment by act , effective , see section 533(a) of act , set out as a note under section 854a of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public Health Service, and all other officers and employees of Public Health Service, and functions of all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. , 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, set out as a note under section 202 of this title.
Functions of Federal Security Administrator transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and all agencies of Federal Security Agency transferred to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by section 5 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953, set out as a note under section 3501 of this title. Federal Security Agency and office of Administrator abolished by section 8 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953.
Delegation of Functions
Functions of President delegated to Secretary of Health and Human Services, see Ex. Ord. No. 11140, , 29 F.R. 1637, as amended, set out as a note under section 202 of this title.
Credits
1944–1953 · 3 acts
- 1944July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 215, 58 Stat. 690
- 1949Oct. 12, 1949, ch. 681, title V, § 521(f), 63 Stat. 835
- 19531953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §§ 5, 8, eff. , 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631.
Show as published
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 215, 58 Stat. 690; Oct. 12, 1949, ch. 681, title V, § 521(f), 63 Stat. 835; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §§ 5, 8, eff. , 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631.)