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[CITE: 10USC6201]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 563--HOSPITALIZATION AND MEDICAL CARE
 
Sec. 6201. Members of the naval service in other United States 
        hospitals
        
    (a) When appropriate naval hospital facilities are unavailable, the 
Secretary of the Navy may provide for the care and treatment of members 
of the naval service, entitled to treatment in naval hospitals, in other 
United States hospitals, if the agencies controlling the other hospitals 
consent. Expenses incident to such care and treatment are chargeable to 
the same appropriation as would be chargeable for care and treatment in 
a naval hospital.
    (b) The deduction authorized by section 4812 of the Revised Statutes 
(24 U.S.C. 16) shall be made from accounts of members hospitalized under 
this section.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 387; Pub. L. 85-861, Sec. 36B(19), 
Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1571; Pub. L. 96-513, title V, Sec. 513(14), 
Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2932.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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6201(a), (b)..........................  24 U.S.C. 31.                        Ja
n. 19, 1929, ch. 85, 45 Stat.
                                                                              1
090.
6201(c)...............................  34 U.S.C. 854f.                      Ju
ne 25, 1938, ch. 690, Sec.  207,
                                                                              5
2 Stat. 1180.
                                        34 U.S.C. 854 (note).                Ju
ly 9, 1952, ch. 608, Sec.  803
                                                                              (
3d sentence), 66 Stat. 505.
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    In subsection (a) the words ``members of the naval service'' are 
substituted for the words ``naval patients on the active or retired list 
and members of the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve''. The 
definition of ``member of the naval service'' makes the terms 
coextensive. Reference to St. Elizabeths Hospital is omitted in view of 
Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 201, 60 Stat. 1098, which 
transferred the functions of that hospital pertaining to members of the 
naval service to the Secretary of the Navy. For the purposes of this 
section, St. Elizabeths is now in the same category as other United 
States hospitals.
    In subsection (b) reference to R.S. 4813 (24 U.S.C. 6) is omitted 
because the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs held in Decision Number 
571 (July 27, 1944) that R.S. 4813 was repealed by implication. Since 
this decision is binding on the Secretary of the Navy (see 38 U.S.C. 
11a-2), the deductions from pension accounts authorized by R.S. 4813 may 
not be made.
    In subsection (c) the words ``each retired enlisted member of the 
naval service'' are substituted for the words ``retired enlisted men'' 
and the words ``is entitled to'' are substituted for the words ``shall 
receive'' to conform to terminology used throughout this title. The 
words ``equal in value to the hospital ration'' are substituted for the 
words ``prescribed by law for enlisted men of the Regular Navy'' to show 
that the amount of the allowance is the value of the hospital ration. 
The words ``for each day'' are inserted to make it clear that the ration 
allowance is credited on a daily basis. The words ``under this section'' 
are substituted for the words ``in a Federal hospital in accordance with 
law'' because this section is the only authority for the hospitalization 
of members of the Fleet Reserve and Fleet Marine Corps Reserve and 
retired enlisted members of the naval service in Federal hospitals, 
other than naval hospitals, under conditions entitling the members to a 
ration allowance. The subsistence of a member of the Fleet Reserve or 
Fleet Marine Corps Reserve or a retired enlisted member of the naval 
service while hospitalized in naval hospitals is covered by Sec. 6086 of 
this title.


                               Amendments

    1980--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96-513 substituted ``section 4812 of the 
Revised Statutes (24 U.S.C. 16)'' for ``section 16 of title 24''.
    1958--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 85-861 repealed subsec. (c) which related 
to a ration allowance for members of the Fleet Reserve of the Fleet 
Marine Corps Reserve and retired enlisted members of the naval service.


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 
701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96-513, set out as a note under section 101 of this 
title.
