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[CITE: 42USC209d]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
        SUBCHAPTER I--ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
                         Part A--Administration
 
Sec. 209d. Appointment of osteopaths as commissioned officers

    Graduates of colleges of osteopathy whose graduates are eligible for 
licensure to practice medicine or osteopathy in a majority of the States 
of the United States, or approved by a body or bodies acceptable to the 
Secretary, shall be eligible, subject to the other provisions of this 
Act, for appointment as commissioned medical officers in the Public 
Health Service.

(Feb. 28, 1948, ch. 83, Sec. 5(b), 62 Stat. 40; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, 
Secs. 5, 8, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is act Feb. 28, 1948, ch. 83, 62 
Stat. 38. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
Tables.

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as a part of the Public Health Service Act 
which comprises this chapter.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public Health 
Service, and all other officers and employees of Public Health Service, 
and functions of all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred 
to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 
1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, 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.
    Functions of Federal Security Administrator transferred to Secretary 
of Health, Education, and Welfare and all agencies of Federal Security 
Agency transferred to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by 
section 5 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953, set out as a note under section 
3501 of this title. Federal Security Agency and office of Administrator 
abolished by section 8 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953. Secretary and 
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated Secretary and 
Department of Health and Human Services by section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96-
88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20.
