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Title 38, Veterans' BenefitsRelease 119-102

§8114 Use of Federally Owned Facilities; Use of Personnel

Title 38 › PART VI — ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY › CHAPTER 81 — ACQUISITION AND OPERATION OF HOSPITAL AND DOMICILIARY FACILITIES; PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY; ENHANCED-USE LEASES OF REAL PROPERTY › SUBCHAPTER I — ACQUISITION AND OPERATION OF MEDICAL FACILITIES › § 8114

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary, with the President’s approval, can use U.S.-owned buildings, structures, and land that were owned on March 3, 1925 and are available, as medical facilities. If the Secretary asks, the President can transfer those places to the Department by Executive order. The President can order federal departments’ architects, engineers, builders, or other staff to help build or change medical facilities. The President can also hire private people or companies for that work and pay them what he thinks is reasonable.

Full Legal Text

Title 38, §8114

Veterans' Benefits, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary, subject to the approval of the President, may use as medical facilities such suitable buildings, structures, and grounds owned by the United States on March 3, 1925, as may be available for such purposes, and the President may by Executive order transfer any such buildings, structures, and grounds to the control and jurisdiction of the Department upon the request of the Secretary.
(b)The President may require the architectural, engineering, constructing, or other forces of any of the departments of the Government to do or assist in the construction and alteration of medical facilities, and the President may employ for such purposes individuals and agencies not connected with the Government, if in the opinion of the President such is desirable, at such compensation as the President may consider reasonable.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those comprising this section were contained in section 5001(e) of this title prior to the general revision of this subchapter by Pub. L. 96–22.

Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 5014 of this title as this section. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” in two places. Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(a)(3), (4), substituted “Department” for “Veterans’ Administration”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1979, but not applicable with respect to the acquisition,

Construction

, or alteration of any medical facilities if the acquisition,

Construction

, or alteration (not including exchange) was approved by the President before Oct. 1, 1979, see section 302 of Pub. L. 96–22, set out as a note under section 8101 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

38 U.S.C. § 8114

Title 38, Veterans' Benefits

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102