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[CITE: 42USC253b]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
        Part C--Hospitals, Medical Examinations, and Medical Care
 
Sec. 253b. Former Lighthouse Service employees; medical service 
        eligibility
        
    Subject to regulations of the President, lightkeepers, assistant 
lightkeepers, and officers and crews of vessels of the former Lighthouse 
Service, including any such persons who subsequent to June 30, 1939, 
were involuntarily assigned to other civilian duty in the Coast Guard, 
who were entitled to medical relief at hospitals and other stations of 
the Public Health Service prior to July 1, 1944, and who retired under 
the provisions of section 763 of title 33, shall be entitled to medical, 
surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization at hospitals and 
other stations of the Public Health Service.

(Pub. L. 93-353, title I, Sec. 108(a), July 23, 1974, 88 Stat. 371.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as a part of Health Services Research, Health 
Statistics, and Medical Libraries Act of 1974, and also as a part of 
Health Services Research and Evaluation and Health Statistics Act of 
1974, and not as a part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises 
this chapter.


                             Effective Date

    Section 108(b) of Pub. L. 93-353 provided that: ``Subsection (a) 
[enacting this section] shall be effective from December 28, 1973.''
