§557 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture can give Forest Service workers food, buy their personal gear and supplies, and take the cost out of their pay or other money due them. The Secretary can also pay for medical care for workers who are in remote places, move them to a hospital if needed, and, if a worker dies, move the body to the nearest place for preparation for burial or shipment. If a person without a permanent home or someone temporarily hired becomes sick or hurt while working and the problem was not caused by the job, the Forest Service can provide hospital care, other needed medical treatment, meals, and lodging for up to 15 days. The cost must be paid from Forest Service funds that apply to the work the person was doing.

Title 16, §557

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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to furnish subsistence to employees of the Forest Service, to purchase personal equipment and supplies for them, and to make deductions therefor from moneys appropriated for salary payments or otherwise due such employees. He is also authorized, in his discretion, to provide out of moneys appropriated for the general expenses of the Forest Service medical attention for employees of the Forest Service located at isolated situations, including the moving of such employees to hospitals or other places where medical assistance is available, and in case of death to remove the bodies of deceased employees to the nearest place where they can be prepared for shipment or for burial: Provided, That when a transient without permanent residence, or any other person while away from his place of residence, is temporarily employed by the Forest Service and while so employed becomes disabled because of injury or illness not attributable to official work, he may be provided hospitalization and other necessary medical care, subsistence, and lodging for a period of not to exceed fifteen days during such disability, the cost thereof to be payable from any funds available to the Forest Service applicable to the work for which such person is employed.

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1950—Act Apr. 24, 1950, inserted proviso to provide medical care for temporary employees.

§557 Employees of Forest Service; Subsistence Furnished To; Personal Equipment; Supplies, and Medical Attention

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Title 16, §557

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