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[CITE: 42USC205]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
        SUBCHAPTER I--ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
                         Part A--Administration
 
Sec. 205. Appointment and tenure of office of Surgeon General; 
        reversion in rank
        
    The Surgeon General shall be appointed from the Regular Corps for a 
four-year term by the President by and with the advice and consent of 
the Senate. The Surgeon General shall be appointed from individuals who 
(1) are members of the Regular Corps, and (2) have specialized training 
or significant experience in public health programs. Upon the expiration 
of such term the Surgeon General, unless reappointed, shall revert to 
the grade and number in the Regular or Reserve Corps that he would have 
occupied had he not served as Surgeon General.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, Sec. 204, 58 Stat. 684; Pub. L. 97-25, 
title III, Sec. 303(a), July 27, 1981, 95 Stat. 145; Pub. L. 97-35, 
title XXVII, Sec. 2765(b), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 932.)


                               Amendments

    1981--Pub. L. 97-35 inserted reference to Reserve Corps and 
substituted provisions relating to appointment of an individual from the 
Regular Corps and with specialized training and significant experience, 
for provisions relating to appointment of an individual sixty-four years 
of age or older.
    Pub. L. 97-25 inserted provision that the President may appoint to 
office of Surgeon General an individual who is sixty-four years of age 
or older.

                          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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 209 of this title.
