42 USC § 253b - Former Lighthouse Service employees; medical service eligibility

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title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
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section_name: "Former Lighthouse Service employees; medical service eligibility"
chapter_number: 6
chapter_name: "PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES"
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# § 253b. Former Lighthouse Service employees; medical service eligibility

June 30, 1939July 1, 1944section 763 of title 33

Subject to regulations of the President, lightkeepers, assistant lightkeepers, and officers and crews of vessels of the former Lighthouse Service, including any such persons who subsequent to , were involuntarily assigned to other civilian duty in the Coast Guard, who were entitled to medical relief at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service prior to , and who retired under the provisions of , shall be entitled to medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 93–353, title I, § 108(a), July 23, 1974, 88 Stat. 371.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as a part of Health Services Research, Health Statistics, and Medical Libraries Act of 1974, and also as a part of Health Services Research and Evaluation and Health Statistics Act of 1974, and not as a part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

> “Subsection (a) [enacting this section] shall be effective from
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> .”

, , , provided that:

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of , as modified, set out as a note under .