Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§211c Promotion credit for medical officers in assistant grade

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › Part Part A— - Administration › § 211c

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Gives promotion credit to Regular Corps medical officers who are or will be appointed to the assistant grade and who have completed (or will have completed) a medical internship by the date of that appointment.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §211c

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Any medical officer of the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service who—

(1)(A)was appointed to the assistant grade in the Regular Corps and whose service in such Corps has been continuous from the date of appointment or (B) may hereafter be appointed to the assistant grade in the Regular Corps, and

(2)had or will have completed a medical internship on the date of such appointment,

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

For “the

Effective Date

of this section”, referred to in text, see section 7 of act Apr. 30, 1956, which provided in part that this section shall become effective the first day of the month following the day of enactment, Apr. 30, 1956.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public Health Service, and all other officers and employees of Public Health Service, and functions of all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, set out as a note under section 202 of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 211c

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73