[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 42CFR31.11]



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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. 31.11  Persons entitled to treatment.



    To the extent and under the circumstances prescribed in this part, 

the following persons shall be entitled to medical, surgical, and dental 

treatment and hospitalization by the Service: Lightkeepers, assistant 

lightkeepers, and officers and crews of vessels of the former Lighthouse 

Service, including any such persons who subsequent to June 30, 1939, 

have involuntarily been assigned to other civilian duty in the Coast 

Guard, who were entitled to medical relief at hospitals and other 

stations of the Service prior to July 1, 1944, and who are now or 

hereafter on active duty or who have been or may hereafter be retired 

under the provisions of section 6 of the act of June 20, 1918, as 

amended (33 U.S.C. 763).



(Sec. 610(b), 58 Stat. 714, as amended; 33 U.S.C. 763c)