[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 42CFR31.5]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 31--MEDICAL CARE FOR CERTAIN PERSONNEL OF THE COAST GUARD, NATIONAL OCEAN SURVEY, PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, AND FORMER LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 31.5  Application for treatment; active duty personnel.

    (a) An applicant for medical relief who is on active duty shall 
furnish a certificate identifying him. Such certificate, in the case of 
Coast Guard personnel, shall be signed by an officer of the Coast Guard, 
and in the case of National Ocean Survey personnel, shall be signed by 
an officer of the National Ocean Survey. Commissioned officers of any of 
the services mentioned in Sec. 31.2 and officers in charge of units may 
sign their own certificates. In an emergency, the officer in charge of a 
medical relief station, or a designated physician or designated dentist, 
may accept other evidence of status satisfactory to him.
    (b) A temporary member of the Coast Guard Reserve except when on 
active duty or a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary shall, when 
applying for medical relief, furnish a statement signed by a responsible 
superior officer setting forth the facts and circumstances giving rise 
to the need for medical relief. In emergencies, such statement shall be 
furnished promptly after the member has received the immediately 
required care and treatment. Such statement shall be presumptive 
evidence of the facts stated, but if investigation indicates that the 
injury, sickness, or disease was not incurred or contracted in the 
manner stated, further treatment may be denied.

(Sec. 326, 58 Stat. 697, as amended; 42 U.S.C. 253)