24 U.S.C. § 37 — Manufacture of products by patients at naval hospitals; ownership of products

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The Secretary of the Navy may give patients at naval hospitals materials to make products as part of their recovery. Patients own what they make. But if an item was made specifically for the hospital's own use, the government owns it instead.

This section lets the Secretary of the Navy supply materials so that patients at naval hospitals and other naval medical facilities can manufacture or produce products as part of their convalescence and rehabilitation. Ownership of those products normally belongs to the patients who make them. The one exception: if an item was manufactured or produced specifically for the use of a naval hospital or other naval medical facility, ownership belongs to the Government instead, and such items must be accounted for and disposed of accordingly.

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The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to furnish materials for the manufacture or production by patients of products incident to the convalescence and rehabilitation of such patients in naval hospitals and other naval medical facilities, and ownership thereof shall be vested in the patients manufacturing or producing such products, except that the ownership of items manufactured or produced specifically for the use of a naval hospital or other naval medical facility shall be vested in the Government and such items shall be accounted for and disposed of accordingly.

Source credit: (Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 27, 60 Stat. 856.)

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1946Enacted · Act of Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756 · 60 Stat. 856

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 756 on 1946-08-02.

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