Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 1 Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others
§31 Care of naval patients in other Government hospitals where naval hospital facilities are not available; members of Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve included
The Secretary of the Navy may provide for the care and treatment of naval patients on the active or retired list and members of the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve entitled to treatment in naval hospitals in other Government hospitals when appropriate naval hospital facilities are not available and the Government agencies having control of such other hospitals consent thereto. All expenses incident to such care and treatment received by naval patients in other Government hospitals, excepting Saint Elizabeths Hospital, shall be chargeable to the same appropriation or fund as would be chargeable with the care and treatment of such patients in a naval hospital: Provided, That the deductions authorized by sections 6 and 16 of this title, shall apply to such are and treatment in other Government hospitals, except Saint Elizabeths Hospital, and shall be credited to said appropriation or fund.
(Jan. 19, 1929, ch. 85, 45 Stat. 1090, Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, §53, 70A Stat. 641; See section 6201 of Title 10, Armed Forces)