Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§8742 Physical Examination: Employees Engaged in Hazardous Occupations
Title 10 › Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps › PART IV — GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 871 — CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES › § 8742
Summary
The Navy Secretary may hire and pay civilian doctors to examine workers in dangerous jobs when Navy medical staff aren’t available, and may let others in the department pass that power on.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8742
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(a)The Secretary of the Navy may provide for physical examination by civilians of employees engaged in hazardous occupations, where the professional services of the Medical Department are not available. The Secretary may compensate these civilians for their services, on a contract or fee basis, at the rates customary in the locality.
(b)The Secretary, to the extent he considers proper, may delegate the authority conferred by this section to any person in the Department of the Navy, with or without the authority to make successive redelegations.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 74725 U.S.C. 415c.Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 2, 60 Stat. 853. 5 U.S.C. 412a.Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 39, 60 Stat. 858. In subsection (b) the words “except the authority to prescribe
Regulations
” are omitted, since 5 U.S.C. 415c contains no authority for the Secretary of the Navy to prescribe
Regulations
for the administration of that section.
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 8742 was renumbered section 9272 of this title.
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7472 of this title as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of
Amendments
and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8742
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102