24 U.S.C. § 14 — Establishment of Navy hospitals

This section is a single, undivided provision. The Secretary of the Navy must find suitable sites for Navy hospitals. If a site doesn't already have the needed buildings, the Secretary must have them built. In choosing designs, the Secretary must favor economy — plans that cost the least and still allow the hospital to be added onto later, when money and need allow it. At one of these hospital sites, the Secretary must also set up a permanent home for Navy officers, sailors, and marines who are disabled or worn out from service. However, no site can be acquired and no hospital building — including any addition to an existing hospital — can be built unless Congress authorizes it first.