25 USC § 1616q - Exemption from payment of certain fees

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identifier: "/us/usc/t25/s1616q"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "25 USC § 1616q - Exemption from payment of certain fees"
title_number: 25
title_name: "INDIANS"
section_number: "1616q"
section_name: "Exemption from payment of certain fees"
chapter_number: 18
chapter_name: "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "INDIAN HEALTH PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-07-14"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 94–437, title I, § 124, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)"
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# § 1616q. Exemption from payment of certain fees

Employees of a tribal health program or urban Indian organization shall be exempt from payment of licensing, registration, and any other fees imposed by a Federal agency to the same extent that officers of the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service and other employees of the Service are exempt from those fees.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 94–437, title I, § 124, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

is based on section 113 of title I of S. 1790, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, as reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate in Dec. 2009, which was enacted into law by .