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42 U.S.C. § 250 — Medical care and treatment of Federal prisoners
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The Service shall supervise and furnish medical treatment and other necessary medical, psychiatric, and related technical and scientific services, authorized by [section 4005 of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section4005&num=0&edition=prelim), in penal and correctional institutions of the United States.
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The Service shall supervise and furnish medical treatment and other necessary medical, psychiatric, and related technical and scientific services, authorized by [section 4005 of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section4005&num=0&edition=prelim), in penal and correctional institutions of the United States.
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When used in this chapter—
**(a)** The term “Service” means the Public Health Service;
**(b)** The term “Surgeon General” means the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service;
**(c)** Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
**(d)** The term “regulations”, except when otherwise specified, means rules and regulations made by the Surgeon General with the approval of the Secretary;
**(e)** The term “executive department” means any executive department, agency, or independent establishment of the United States or any corporation wholly owned by the United States;
**(f)** Except as provided in sections 246(g)(4)(B),11 See References in Text note below. 247c(c)(1),1 254d(h)(3),1 263c(5),1 264(d), 292a(9),1 300a(c), 300f(13), and 300n(1) 1 of this title, the term “State” includes, in addition to the several States, only the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
**(g)** The term “possession” includes, among other possessions, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands;
**(h)** Repealed. Pub. L. 97–35, title IX, § 986(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 603.
**(i)** The term “vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water, exclusive of aircraft and amphibious contrivances;
**(j)** The term “habit-forming narcotic drug” or “narcotic” means opium and coca leaves and the several alkaloids derived therefrom, the best known of these alkaloids being morphia, heroin, and codeine, obtained from opium, and cocaine derived from the coca
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**(a)** Upon request of the Attorney General and to the extent consistent with the Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997, the Federal Security Administrator shall detail regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, pharmacists, acting assistant surgeons, and other employees of the Public Health Service to the Department of Justice for the purpose of supervising and furnishing medical, psychiatric, and other technical and scientific services to the Federal penal and correctional institutions.
**(b)** The compensation, allowances, and expenses of the personnel detailed under this section may be paid from applicable appropriations of the Public Health Service in accordance with the law and regulations governing the personnel of the Public Health Service, such appropriations to be reimbursed from applicable appropriations of the Department of Justice; or the Attorney General may make allotments of funds and transfer of credit to the Public Health Service in such amounts as are available and necessary, for payment of compensation, allowances, and expenses of personnel so detailed, in accordance with the law and regulations governing the personnel of the Public Health Service.
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 250
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General
of Public Health Service, and all other officers and em-
ployees of Public Health Service, and functions of all
agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred to
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg.
Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat.
1610, set out as a note under section 202 of this title.
Functions of all other officers of Department of Jus-
tice and functions of all agencies and employees of such
Department transferred, with a few exceptions, to At-
torney General, with power vested in him to authorize
their performance or the performance of any of his
functions by any of such officers, agencies, and employ-
ees, by sections 1 and 2 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1950, eff.
May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3173, 64 Stat. 1261, which were re-
pealed by Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 662.
Immigration and Naturalization Service, referred to in
this section, was a bureau in Department of Justice.
§ 250. Medical care and treatment of Federal
prisoners
The Service shall supervise and furnish med-
ical treatment and other necessary medical,
psychiatric, and related technical and scientific
services, authorized by section 4005 of title 18, in
penal and correctional institutions of the United
States.
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 323, 58 Stat. 697.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
‘‘Section 4005 of title 18’’ substituted in text for ‘‘the
Act of May 13, 1930, as amended (U.S.C., 1940 edition,
title 18, secs. 751, 752)’’ on authority of act June 25, 1948,
ch. 645, 62 Stat. 684, the first section of which enacted
Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
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