24 USC § 35 - Limitation of medical, surgical or hospital services

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identifier: "/us/usc/t24/s35"
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title: "24 USC § 35 - Limitation of medical, surgical or hospital services"
title_number: 24
title_name: "HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS"
section_number: "35"
section_name: "Limitation of medical, surgical or hospital services"
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"
format_version: "1.1.0"
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source_credit: "(May 10, 1943, ch. 95, § 5, 57 Stat. 81; Pub. L. 99–251, title III, § 304, Feb. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 26.)"
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# § 35. Limitation of medical, surgical or hospital services

section 34 of this titlesection 34 of this title

Hospitalization of the dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel and of the persons outside the naval service mentioned in  shall be furnished only for acute medical and surgical conditions, exclusive of nervous, mental, or contagious diseases or those requiring domiciliary care. Routine dental care, other than dental prosthesis and orthodontia, may be furnished to such persons who are outside the naval service under the same conditions as are prescribed in  for hospital and dispensary care for such persons.

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**Source Credit**: (May 10, 1943, ch. 95, § 5, 57 Stat. 81; Pub. L. 99–251, title III, § 304, Feb. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 26.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1986— amended second sentence generally. Prior to amendment, second sentence read as follows: “Dental treatment shall be administered only as an adjunct to inpatient hospital care and shall not include dental prosthesis or orthodontia.”

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Partial Repeal; Effective Date

, , repealed this section except insofar as it relates to persons outside the Naval Service mentioned in . Section 307 of , , provided that such repeal was effective six months after .