42 U.S.C. § 238f — Availability of appropriations

submitted 82 years ago by ch. 373 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 178 words · no verdicts yet

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This law lists specific things Service appropriations can pay for, from staff salaries and rent to school transportation for children at isolated posts. It also covers chasing escaped patients, work uniforms, replacing damaged employee property, and maintaining NIH buildings.

Appropriations for carrying out the purposes of this chapter can be spent on: personal services and rent at the seat of government; books of reference, periodicals, and exhibits; printing and binding; transporting, in government-owned vehicles, children of personnel to and from school, when those personnel have quarters for their families at stations the Surgeon General has determined to be isolated stations; expenses of pursuing, identifying, and returning prisoners who escape from a Service hospital, institution, or station, or from an officer's or employee's custody, including rewards for capturing them; providing, repairing, and cleaning the work clothing the Surgeon General prescribes for employees on official duty; reimbursing officers and employees, under the Secretary's regulations, for the cost of repairing or replacing personal belongings that patients damage or destroy while the employee is on official duty; and maintaining buildings of the National Institutes of Health.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Appropriations for carrying out the purposes of this chapter shall be available for expenditure for personal services and rent at the seat of Government; books of reference, periodicals, and exhibits; printing and binding; transporting in Government-owned automotive equipment, to and from school, children of personnel who have quarters for themselves and their families at stations determined by the Surgeon General to be isolated stations; expenses incurred in pursuing, identifying, and returning prisoners who escape from any hospital, institution, or station of the Service or from the custody of any officer or employee of the Service, including rewards for the capture of such prisoners; furnishing, repairing, and cleaning such wearing apparel as may be prescribed by the Surgeon General for use by employees in the performance of their official duties; reimbursing officers and employees, subject to regulations of the Secretary, for the cost of repairing or replacing their personal belongings damaged or destroyed by patients while such officers or employees are engaged in the performance of their official duties; and maintenance of buildings of the National Institutes of Health.

Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 237, formerly title V, § 509, 58 Stat. 711; June 16, 1948, ch. 481, § 6(b), 62 Stat. 469; June 25, 1948, ch. 654, § 7, 62 Stat. 1018; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §§ 5, 8, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; renumbered title XXI, § 2109, Pub. L. 98–24, § 2(a)(1), Apr. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 176; renumbered title XXIII, § 2309, Pub. L. 99–660, title III, § 311(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3755; renumbered title XXV, § 2507, Pub. L. 100–607, title II, § 201(1), (3), Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3062, 3063; renumbered title XXVI, § 2607, Pub. L. 100–690, title II, § 2620(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4244; renumbered title XXVII, § 2707, Pub. L. 101–381, title I, § 101(1), (2), Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 576; renumbered title II, § 237, Pub. L. 103–43, title XX, § 2010(a)(1)–(3), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 213.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1944Enacted · Act of July 1, 1944, ch. 373 · 58 Stat. 711
1948Amended · Act of June 16, 1948, ch. 481 · 62 Stat. 469
1948Amended · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 654 · 62 Stat. 1018
1983Amended · Pub. L. 98-24 · 97 Stat. 176
1986Amended · Pub. L. 99-660 · 100 Stat. 3755
1988Amended · Pub. L. 100-607 · 102 Stat. 3062, 3063
1988Amended · Pub. L. 100-690 · 102 Stat. 4244
1990Amended · Pub. L. 101-381 · 104 Stat. 576
1993Amended · Pub. L. 103-43 · 107 Stat. 213

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