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§1616q Exemption From Payment of Certain Fees

Title 25 › Chapter 18— INDIAN HEALTH CARE › Subchapter I— INDIAN HEALTH PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL › § 1616q

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Tribal health and urban Indian program employees do not have to pay federal agency fees like Public Health Service officers do.

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Title 25, §1616q

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Employees of a tribal health program or urban Indian organization shall be exempt from payment of licensing, registration, and any other fees imposed by a Federal agency to the same extent that officers of the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service and other employees of the Service are exempt from those fees.

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Editorial Notes

Codification section 124 of Pub. L. 94–437 is based on section 113 of title I of S. 1790, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, as reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate in Dec. 2009, which was enacted into law by section 10221(a) of Pub. L. 111–148.

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25 U.S.C. § 1616q

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Apr 5, 2026

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