42 U.S.C. § 214 — Presentation of United States flag upon retirement
submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 106-65 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 113 words · no verdicts yet
When a Public Health Service officer retires from active duty, the Secretary of Health and Human Services must give them a U.S. flag. An officer can only get this flag once, even if some other law also provides one. The flag costs the officer nothing.
Upon the release of an officer of the commissioned corps of the Service* from active commissioned service for retirement, the Secretary* of Health and Human Services shall present a United States flag to the officer.
An officer is not eligible for presentation of a flag under subsection (a) if the officer has previously been presented a flag under this section or any other provision of law providing for the presentation of a United States flag incident to release from active service for retirement.
The presentation of a flag under this section shall be at no cost to the recipient.
Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 213, as added Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title VI, § 652(b), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 665.)
- 1944Enacted · Pub. L. 106-65 · 113 Stat. 665
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