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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part B · Chapter 6A — Public Health Service

§ 238i. Memorials and other acknowledgments for contributions to health of Nation

Statutory text

The Secretary may provide for suitably acknowledging, within the Department (whether by memorials, designations, or other suitable acknowledgments), (1) efforts of persons who have contributed substantially to the health of the Nation and (2) gifts for use in activities of the Department related to health.

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. 90–574 title V § 503(a) · 82 Stat. 1005

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 238i

    July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 240, formerly title V, § 512, as added Pub. L. 90–574, title V, § 503(a), Oct. 15, 1968, 82 Stat. 1012

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 240, formerly title V, § 512, as added Pub. L. 90–574, title V, § 503(a), Oct. 15, 1968, 82 Stat. 1012

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) Title V of the Public Health Service Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “Sec. 512. “memorials and other acknowledgments The Secretary may provide for suitably acknowledging, within the Department (whether by memorials, designations, or other suitable acknowledgments), (1) efforts of persons who have contributed substantially to the health of the Nation and (2) gifts for use in activities of the Department related to health.”

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 300aaa–9 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 103–43, to section 300cc–11 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 100–607, to section 300aa–11 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 99–660, and to section 229a of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 98–24.

Credits

1944–1993 · 7 acts
  1. 1944July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 240, formerly title V, § 512, as added Pub. L. 90–574, title V, § 503(a), , 82 Stat. 1012
  2. 1983renumbered title XXI, § 2112, Pub. L. 98–24, § 2(a)(1), , 97 Stat. 176
  3. 1986renumbered title XXIII, § 2312, Pub. L. 99–660, title III, § 311(a), , 100 Stat. 3755
  4. 1988renumbered title XXV, § 2510, Pub. L. 100–607, title II, § 201(1), (3), , 102 Stat. 3062, 3063
  5. 1988renumbered title XXVI, § 2610, Pub. L. 100–690, title II, § 2620(a), , 102 Stat. 4244
  6. 1990renumbered title XXVII, § 2710, Pub. L. 101–381, title I, § 101(1), (2), , 104 Stat. 576
  7. 1993renumbered title II, § 240, Pub. L. 103–43, title XX, § 2010(a)(1)–(3), , 107 Stat. 213.
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(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 240, formerly title V, § 512, as added Pub. L. 90–574, title V, § 503(a), , 82 Stat. 1012; renumbered title XXI, § 2112, Pub. L. 98–24, § 2(a)(1), , 97 Stat. 176; renumbered title XXIII, § 2312, Pub. L. 99–660, title III, § 311(a), , 100 Stat. 3755; renumbered title XXV, § 2510, Pub. L. 100–607, title II, § 201(1), (3), , 102 Stat. 3062, 3063; renumbered title XXVI, § 2610, Pub. L. 100–690, title II, § 2620(a), , 102 Stat. 4244; renumbered title XXVII, § 2710, Pub. L. 101–381, title I, § 101(1), (2), , 104 Stat. 576; renumbered title II, § 240, Pub. L. 103–43, title XX, § 2010(a)(1)–(3), , 107 Stat. 213.)

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