Title 24, Hospitals and AsylumsRelease 119-102
§14 Establishment of Navy Hospitals
Title 24 › CHAPTER 1 — NAVY HOSPITALS, ARMY AND NAVY HOSPITAL, AND HOSPITAL RELIEF FOR SEAMEN AND OTHERS › § 14
Summary
Secretary of the Navy must get sites for hospitals and build needed buildings. Plans must be economical and easy to expand as funds and need permit. One hospital must provide a permanent home for disabled, aged Navy officers, seamen, and marines. No work may proceed without Congress’ approval.
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Title 24, §14
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The Secretary of the Navy shall procure at suitable places proper sites for Navy hospitals, and if the necessary buildings are not procured with the site, shall cause such to be erected, having due regard to economy, and giving preference to such plans as with most convenience and least cost will admit of subsequent additions, when the funds permit and circumstances require; and shall provide, at one of the establishments, a permanent asylum for disabled and decrepit Navy officers, seamen, and marines: Provided, That no sites shall be procured or hospital buildings erected or extensions to existing hospitals made unless authorized by Congress.
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Codification R.S. § 4810 derived from acts Feb. 26, 1811, ch. 26, § 3, 2 Stat. 650; July 10, 1832, ch. 194, § 5, 4 Stat. 573.
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24 U.S.C. § 14
Title 24, Hospitals and Asylums
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102