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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 42 — Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation

§ 3402. State facilities and personnel for care and treatment; encouragement of adequate provision; benefit of experience of Surgeon General and Attorney General

Statutory text

The Surgeon General and the Attorney General are authorized to give representatives of States and local subdivisions thereof the benefit of their experience in the care, treatment, and rehabilitation of narcotic addicts so that each State may be encouraged to provide adequate facilities and personnel for the care and treatment of narcotic addicts in its jurisdiction.

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. Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act of 1966

    Pub. L. 89–793 title VI § 602 · 80 Stat. 1438

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 3402

    (Pub. L. 89–793, title VI, § 602, Nov. 8, 1966, 80 Stat. 1450.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 89–793, title VI, § 602, Nov. 8, 1966, 80 Stat. 1450.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 602. The Surgeon General and the Attorney General are authorized to give representatives of States and local subdivisions thereof the benefit of their experience in the care, treatment, and rehabilitation of narcotic addicts so that each State may be encouraged to provide adequate facilities and personnel for the care and treatment of narcotic addicts in its jurisdiction.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act of 1966, which is classified to subchapters II and III of this chapter, chapter 314 (§ 4251 et seq.) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and chapter 175 (§ 2901 et seq.) of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

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.

Credits

(Pub. L. 89–793, title VI, § 602, , 80 Stat. 1450.)

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