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[CITE: 38USC8102]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
            PART VI--ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY
 
   CHAPTER 81--ACQUISITION AND OPERATION OF HOSPITAL AND DOMICILIARY 
FACILITIES; PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY; ENHANCED-USE LEASES OF REAL PROPERTY
 
      SUBCHAPTER I--ACQUISITION AND OPERATION OF MEDICAL FACILITIES
 
Sec. 8102. Acquisition of medical facilities

    (a) The Secretary shall provide medical facilities for veterans 
entitled to hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care or medical 
services under this title.
    (b) No medical facility may be constructed or otherwise acquired or 
altered except in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.
    (c) In carrying out this subchapter, the Secretary--
        (1) shall provide for the construction and acquisition of 
    medical facilities in a manner that results in the equitable 
    distribution of such facilities throughout the United States, taking 
    into consideration the comparative urgency of the need for the 
    services to be provided in the case of each particular facility; and
        (2) shall give due consideration to excellence of architecture 
    and design.

    (d) In considering the need for any project for the construction, 
alteration, or acquisition (other than by exchange) of a medical 
facility which is expected to involve a total expenditure of more than 
$2,000,000, the Secretary shall give consideration to the sharing of 
health-care resources with the Department of Defense under section 8111 
of this title as an alternative to all or part of such project.

(Added Pub. L. 96-22, title III, Sec. 301(a), June 13, 1979, 93 Stat. 
55, Sec. 5002; amended Pub. L. 99-576, title II, Sec. 221(a), Oct. 28, 
1986, 100 Stat. 3259; renumbered Sec. 8102 and amended Pub. L. 102-40, 
title IV, Sec. 402(b)(1), (d)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238, 239; Pub. 
L. 102-54, Sec. 14(f)(2), June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 287; Pub. L. 102-83, 
Sec. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404, 405.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-40, Sec. 402(b)(1), renumbered section 5002 of 
this title as this section.
    Subsecs. (a), (c). Pub. L. 102-83 substituted ``Secretary'' for 
``Administrator''.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 102-83 substituted ``Secretary'' for 
``Administrator''.
    Pub. L. 102-54 amended subsec. (d) as in effect immediately before 
the enactment of Pub. L. 102-40 by substituting ``section 5011'' for 
``section 5001''.
    Pub. L. 102-40, Sec. 402(d)(1), amended subsec. (d), as amended by 
Pub. L. 102-54, by substituting ``8111'' for ``5011''. See above.
    1986--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 99-576 added subsec. (d).
