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[CITE: 22USC2522]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                       CHAPTER 34--THE PEACE CORPS
 
Sec. 2522. Definitions

    (a) The term ``abroad'' means any area outside the United States.
    (b) The term ``United States'' means the several States and the 
District of Columbia.
    (c) The term ``function'' includes any duty, obligation, right, 
power, authority, responsibility, privilege, discretion, activity, and 
program.
    (d) The term ``health care'' includes all appropriate examinations, 
preventive, curative and restorative health and medical care, and 
supplementary services when necessary.
    (e) For the purposes of this chapter or any other Act, the period of 
any individual's service as a volunteer under this chapter shall 
include--
        (i) except for the purposes of section 2504(f) of this title, 
    any period of training under section 2507(a) of this title prior to 
    enrollment as a volunteer under this chapter; and
        (ii) the period between enrollment as a volunteer and the 
    termination of service as such volunteer by the President or by 
    death or resignation.

    (f) The term ``United States Government agency'' includes any 
department, board, wholly or partly owned corporation, or 
instrumentality, commission, or establishment of the United States 
Government.
    (g) The word ``transportation'' in sections 2504(b), 2504(m), and 
2505(2) of this title includes transportation of not to exceed three 
hundred pounds per person of unaccompanied necessary personal and 
household effects.

(Pub. L. 87-293, title I, Sec. 26, formerly Sec. 25, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 
Stat. 624; Pub. L. 89-572, Sec. 4, Sept. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 765; Pub. L. 
91-352, Sec. 8, July 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 465; renumbered Sec. 26, Pub. L. 
99-83, title XI, Sec. 1105(a)(1), Aug. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 276.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in subsec. (e), was in the original ``this 
Act'', meaning Pub. L. 87-293, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 612, as amended, 
known as the Peace Corps Act. For complete classification of this Act to 
the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2501 of this title 
and Tables.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 26 of Pub. L. 87-293 was renumbered section 27 and 
is classified to section 2523 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1970--Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 91-352 inserted reference to section 
2504(m) of this title.
    1966--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 89-572 struck out territories from 
definition of ``United States''.
