42 U.S.C. § 285i — Purpose of Institute
submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 99-158 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 84 words · no verdicts yet
The National Eye Institute studies and supports research on blindness and eye disease. It funds training, research, and public health information about vision. The Institute's Director may also give grants to nonprofit vision research centers.
The general purpose of the National Eye Institute (hereafter in this subpart referred to as the “Institute”) is the conduct and support of research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to blinding eye diseases, visual disorders, mechanisms of visual function, preservation of sight, and the special health problems and requirements of the blind. Subject to section 285i–1 of this title, the Director* of the Institute may carry out a program of grants for public and private nonprofit vision research facilities.
Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 455, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 856; amended Pub. L. 103–43, title XI, § 1101(b), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 169.)
- 1944Enacted · Pub. L. 99-158 · 99 Stat. 856
- 1993Amended · Pub. L. 103-43 · 107 Stat. 169
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