[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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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)