Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73
§285i Purpose of Institute
Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part Part C— - Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes › Subpart subpart 9— - national eye institute › § 285i
Summary
The National Eye Institute funds research, training, public information, and other programs about blindness, vision disorders, how vision works, and keeping sight. Under section 285i–1, the Director may give grants to nonprofit public or private vision research facilities.
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Title 42, §285i
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The general purpose of the National Eye Institute (hereafter in this subpart referred to as the “Institute”) is the conduct and support of research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to blinding eye diseases, visual disorders, mechanisms of visual function, preservation of sight, and the special health problems and requirements of the blind. Subject to section 285i–1 of this title, the Director of the Institute may carry out a program of grants for public and private nonprofit vision research facilities.
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1993—Pub. L. 103–43 substituted “Subject to section 285i–1 of this title, the Director” for “The Director” in second sentence.
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42 U.S.C. § 285i
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73