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[CITE: 10USC6086]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                          CHAPTER 557--RATIONS
 
Sec. 6086. Subsistence in hospital messes: hospital ration

    (a) Enlisted members of the naval service on duty in hospitals and 
enlisted members of the naval service, including retired members and 
members of the Fleet Reserve and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, when 
sick in hospitals, may be subsisted in hospital messes. When subsistence 
is furnished under this subsection, the appropriation chargeable with 
the maintenance of the hospital mess shall be credited at the rate 
prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy as the value of the hospital 
ration.
    (b) Under such regulations as the Secretary prescribes, officers in 
the Nurse Corps may be subsisted in hospital messes. Each officer so 
subsisted shall pay for her subsistence at the rate fixed by the 
regulations.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 380.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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6086..................................  34 U.S.C. 901a (less 1st and 2d      Au
g. 2, 1946, ch. 756, Sec.  17(a)
                                         sentences).                          (
less 1st and 2d sentences), 60
                                                                              S
tat. 855.
                                        34 U.S.C. 43h(a) (1st 21 words of    Ap
r. 16, 1947, ch. 38, Sec.  208(a)
                                         2d proviso).                         (
1st 25 words of 2d proviso), 61
                                                                              S
tat. 50.
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    In subsection (a) the words ``active duty'' before the words 
``enlisted personnel'' are omitted as surplusage since there is no 
authority to hospitalize an enlisted member in a naval hospital under 
conditions where he would not be entitled to a hospital ration. The 
words ``active and inactive'' before the words ``retired enlisted 
personnel'' are omitted as surplusage. The word ``members'' is 
substituted for the word ``personnel'' for uniformity. The words ``the 
Fleet Marine Corps Reserve'' are inserted for clarity since the term 
``Fleet Reserve'' in the source statute is used in a generic sense and 
includes members of the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve.
    In subsection (b) the words ``that nothing contained in this section 
shall deprive such nurses of allowances for subsistence now or after 
August 2, 1946, provided by law'' are omitted as surplusage. Section 301 
of the Career Compensation Act of 1949 (37 U.S.C. 251) authorizes a 
basic allowance for subsistence for all officers entitled to basic pay.
