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[CITE: 24USC416]

 
                     TITLE 24--HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS
 
                CHAPTER 10--ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME
 
      SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF RETIREMENT HOME
 
Sec. 416. Duties of Retirement Home Board


(a) Overall operation of Retirement Home

    The Retirement Home Board shall be responsible for the overall 
operation of the Retirement Home. As part of such responsibilities, the 
Retirement Home Board shall perform the following duties:
        (1) Issue and ensure compliance with appropriate rules for the 
    operation of the Retirement Home.
        (2) Periodically visit, and inspect the operation of, the 
    facilities of the Retirement Home.
        (3) Periodically examine and audit the accounts of the 
    Retirement Home.
        (4) Establish such advisory bodies as the Retirement Home Board 
    considers to be necessary.

(b) Special duties of specific members

    The Retirement Home Board shall assign specific members of the 
Retirement Home Board appointed under section 415(b) of this title to 
oversee the operations of each facility of the Retirement Home 
maintained as a separate establishment of the Retirement Home for 
administrative purposes.

(c) Acquisition of real property

    The Retirement Home Board may acquire, for the benefit of the 
Retirement Home, property and facilities for inclusion in the Retirement 
Home.

(d) Limitation on disposal of real property

    (1) Real property of the Retirement Home may not be disposed of by 
the Retirement Home Board by sale or otherwise unless the disposal of 
the property is specifically authorized by law.
    (2) In any case in which any real property is sold by the Retirement 
Home Board, the Board shall deposit moneys received from the sale of the 
property in the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund.

(e) Gifts

    (1) The Retirement Home Board may accept gifts of money, property, 
and facilities on behalf of the Retirement Home.
    (2) Monies received as gifts, or realized from the disposition of 
property and facilities received as gifts, shall be deposited in the 
Fund.

(f) Annual report

    Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year, the 
Retirement Home Board shall submit to the Secretary of Defense, for 
transmission to Congress, a report describing the financial and other 
affairs of the Retirement Home for that fiscal year.

(Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, title XV, Sec. 1516, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 
1728.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective one year after Nov. 5, 1990, see section 1541(a) 
of Pub. L. 101-510, set out as a note under section 401 of this title.


Modernization of Facilities at United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home

    Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title III, Sec. 371(c), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 
Stat. 2735, provided that:
    ``(1) The Chairman of the Armed Forces Retirement Home Board shall 
carry out a study to identify and evaluate alternatives for 
modernization of the facilities at the United States Soldiers' and 
Airmen's Home.
    ``(2) The Chairman shall submit an interim report and a final report 
on the results of the study to the Committees on Armed Services of the 
Senate and House of Representatives. The Chairman shall submit the 
interim report not later than April 1, 1995, and the final report not 
later than December 31, 1995.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 424 of this title.
