PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Navy and Marine Corps dependents and the people listed in section 34 may get hospital care only for sudden or serious medical or surgical needs. It does not cover nervous, mental, contagious, or long-term custodial care. Routine dental care, except dentures and braces, for those people follows the rules in section 34.

Title 24, §35

Hospitals and Asylums, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Hospitalization of the dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel and of the persons outside the naval service mentioned in section 34 of this title shall be furnished only for acute medical and surgical conditions, exclusive of nervous, mental, or contagious diseases or those requiring domiciliary care. Routine dental care, other than dental prosthesis and orthodontia, may be furnished to such persons who are outside the naval service under the same conditions as are prescribed in section 34 of this title for hospital and dispensary care for such persons.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–251 amended second sentence generally. Prior to amendment, second sentence read as follows: “Dental treatment shall be administered only as an adjunct to inpatient hospital care and shall not include dental prosthesis or orthodontia.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Partial Repeal;

Effective Date

Act

June 7, 1956, ch. 374, § 306(2), 70 Stat. 254, repealed this section except insofar as it relates to persons outside the Naval Service mentioned in section 34 of this title. section 307 of act

June 7, 1956, ch. 374, 70 Stat. 254, provided that such repeal was effective six months after

June 7, 1956.

§35 Limitation of Medical, Surgical or Hospital Services