24 USC § 16a - Additional personnel for patients of Department of Veterans Affairs in naval hospitals

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title: "24 USC § 16a - Additional personnel for patients of Department of Veterans Affairs in naval hospitals"
title_number: 24
title_name: "HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS"
section_number: "16a"
section_name: "Additional personnel for patients of Department of Veterans Affairs in naval hospitals"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NAVY HOSPITALS, ARMY AND NAVY HOSPITAL, AND HOSPITAL RELIEF FOR SEAMEN AND OTHERS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-09-29"
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source_credit: "(May 29, 1945, ch. 130, § 1, 59 Stat. 208; Pub. L. 102–54, § 13(i)(1), June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 276.)"
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# § 16a. Additional personnel for patients of Department of Veterans Affairs in naval hospitals

May 29, 1945

On and after , additional commissioned, warranted, appointed, enlisted, and civilian personnel of the Medical Department of the Navy, required for the care of patients of the Department of Veterans Affairs in naval hospitals, may be employed in addition to the numbers annually appropriated for.

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**Source Credit**: (May 29, 1945, ch. 130, § 1, 59 Stat. 208; Pub. L. 102–54, § 13(i)(1), June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 276.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is from act , popularly known as the Naval Appropriation Act, 1946.

### Amendments

1991— substituted “Department of Veterans Affairs” for “United States Veterans’ Administration”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Similar Provisions

Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts:

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