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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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[CITE: 42USC258]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
             Part E--Narcotic Addicts and Other Drug Abusers
 
Sec. 258. Employment; establishment of industries, plants, etc.; 
        sale of commodities; disposition of proceeds
        
    Narcotic addicts or other persons with drug abuse and drug 
dependence problems in hospitals of the Service designated for their 
care shall be employed in such manner and under such conditions as the 
Surgeon General may direct. In such hospitals the Surgeon General may, 
in his discretion, establish industries, plants, factories, or shops for 
the production and manufacture of articles, commodities, and supplies 
for the United States Government. The Secretary of the Treasury may 
require any Government department, establishment, or other institution, 
for whom appropriations are made directly or indirectly by the Congress 
of the United States, to purchase at current market prices, as 
determined by him or his authorized representative, such of the 
articles, commodities, or supplies so produced or manufactured as meet 
their specifications; and the Surgeon General shall provide for payment 
to the inmates or their dependents of such pecuniary earnings as he may 
deem proper. The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish 
a working-capital fund for such industries, plants, factories, and shops 
out of any funds appropriated for Public Health Service hospitals at 
which addicts or other persons with drug abuse and drug dependence 
problems are treated and cared for; and such fund shall be available for 
the purchase, repair, or replacement of machinery or equipment, for the 
purchase of raw materials and supplies, for the purchase of uniforms and 
other distinctive wearing apparel of employees in the performance of 
their official duties, and for the employment of necessary civilian 
officers and employees. The Surgeon General may provide for the disposal 
of products of the industrial activities conducted pursuant to this 
section, and the proceeds of any sales thereof shall be covered into the 
Treasury of the United States to the credit of the working-capital fund.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, Sec. 342, 58 Stat. 699; 1953 Reorg. 
Plan No. 1, Secs. 5, 8, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; 
Pub. L. 91-513, title I, Sec. 2(a)(2)(A), Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1240; 
Pub. L. 96-88, title V, Sec. 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)


                               Amendments

    1970--Pub. L. 91-513 inserted reference to persons with drug abuse 
and drug dependence problems.

                          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.
