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[CITE: 38USC1719]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
    CHAPTER 17--HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME, DOMICILIARY, AND MEDICAL CARE
 
 SUBCHAPTER II--HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME, OR DOMICILIARY CARE AND MEDICAL 
                                TREATMENT
 
Sec. 1719. Repair or replacement of certain prosthetic and other 
        appliances
        
    The Secretary may repair or replace any artificial limb, truss, 
brace, hearing aid, spectacles, or similar appliance (not including 
dental appliances) reasonably necessary to a veteran and belonging to 
such veteran which was damaged or destroyed by a fall or other accident 
caused by a service-connected disability for which such veteran is in 
receipt of, or but for the receipt of retirement pay would be entitled 
to, disability compensation.

(Added Pub. L. 87-850, Sec. 1(a), Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1126, 
Sec. 619; amended Pub. L. 94-581, title II, Sec. 210(a)(6), Oct. 21, 
1976, 90 Stat. 2862; renumbered Sec. 1719 and amended Pub. L. 102-83, 
Secs. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404-406.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), renumbered section 619 of this 
title as this section.
    Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted ``Secretary'' for 
``Administrator''.
    1976--Pub. L. 94-581 substituted ``belonging to such veteran'' for 
``belonging to him''.


                    Effective Date of 1976 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 94-581 effective Oct. 21, 1976, see section 211 
of Pub. L. 94-581, set out as a note under section 111 of this title.


                             Effective Date

    Section 2 of Pub. L. 87-850 provided that: ``The amendment made by 
this Act [enacting this section] shall apply only with respect to the 
repair or replacement of artificial limbs, trusses, braces, hearing 
aids, spectacles, and similar devices damaged or destroyed after the 
date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 23, 1962].''
