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[CITE: 42USC2001]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
           CHAPTER 22--INDIAN HOSPITALS AND HEALTH FACILITIES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER I--MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION
 
Sec. 2001. Hospitals and health facilities transferred to Public 
        Health Service; restriction on closing hospitals
        
    (a) All functions, responsibilities, authorities, and duties of the 
Department of the Interior, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Secretary of 
the Interior, and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relating to the 
maintenance and operation of hospital and health facilities for Indians, 
and the conservation of the health of Indians, are transferred to, and 
shall be administered by, the Surgeon General of the United States 
Public Health Service, under the supervision and direction of the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Provided, That hospitals now in 
operation for a specific tribe or tribes of Indians shall not be closed 
prior to July 1, 1956, without the consent of the governing body of the 
tribe or its organized council.
    (b) In carrying out his functions, responsibilities, authorities, 
and duties under this subchapter, the Secretary is authorized, with the 
consent of the Indian people served, to contract with private or other 
non-Federal health agencies or organizations for the provision of health 
services to such people on a fee-for-service basis or on a prepayment or 
other similar basis.

(Aug. 5, 1954, ch. 658, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 674; Pub. L. 93-222, Sec. 6(a), 
Dec. 29, 1973, 87 Stat. 935; Pub. L. 96-88, title V, Sec. 509(b), Oct. 
17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)


                               Amendments

    1973--Pub. L. 93-222 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsec. (b).


                             Effective Date

    Section 6 of act Aug. 5, 1954, as amended by Pub. L. 86-121, Sec. 2, 
July 31, 1959, 73 Stat. 268, provided that: ``Sections 1 to 5, 
inclusive, of this Act [enacting this subchapter and repealing sections 
444 to 449 of Title 25, Indians] shall take effect July 1, 1959.''

                          Transfer of Functions

    Office of Surgeon General abolished by section 3 of Reorg. Plan No. 
3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, and 
functions thereof transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and 
Welfare by section 1 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, set out as a note 
under section 202 of this title. Secretary of Health, Education, and 
Welfare redesignated Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 
509(b) of Pub. L. 96-88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 
20, Education.
