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42 U.S.C. § 253b — Former Lighthouse Service employees; medical service eligibility
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Subject to regulations of the President, lightkeepers, assistant lightkeepers, and officers and crews of vessels of the former Lighthouse Service, including any such persons who subsequent to June 30, 1939, were involuntarily assigned to other civilian duty in the Coast Guard, who were entitled to medical relief at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service prior to July 1, 1944, and who retired under the provisions of [section 763 of title 33](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section763&num=0&edition=prelim), shall be entitled to medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service.
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Subject to regulations of the President, lightkeepers, assistant lightkeepers, and officers and crews of vessels of the former Lighthouse Service, including any such persons who subsequent to June 30, 1939, were involuntarily assigned to other civilian duty in the Coast Guard, who were entitled to medical relief at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service prior to July 1, 1944, and who retired under the provisions of [section 763 of title 33](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section763&num=0&edition=prelim), shall be entitled to medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service.
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(1) **Sense of Congress** — It is the sense of Congress that the Federal air marshal program is critical to aviation security.
(2) **Limitation on statutory construction** — Nothing in this chapter, including any amendment made by this chapter, shall be construed as preventing the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security from implementing and training Federal air marshals.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, acts June 20, 1918, ch. 103, § 6, 40 Stat. 608; Nov. 4, 1918, ch. 201, § 1, 40 Stat. 1036; June 21, 1955, ch. 170, § 1, 69 Stat. 166; Pub. L. 85–142, Aug. 14, 1957, 71 Stat. 365; Pub. L. 90–164, § 1, Nov. 29, 1967, 81 Stat. 519; Pub. L. 92–455, § 6(a), Oct. 2, 1972, 86 Stat. 761, related to retirement of officers and employees of the Lighthouse Service.
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Section 763 consisted mostly of provisions from section 6 of act June 20, 1918, as amended, with one additional proviso from act Nov. 4, 1918, and was restated at former [section 2532 of Title 14](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2532&num=0&edition=prelim), Coast Guard. Section 6 of act June 20, 1918, was repealed by Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8510(a), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4757. The proviso from act Nov. 4, 1918, was repealed by Pub. L. 117–263, div. K, title CXVIII, § 11808(a)(13), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 4165.
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 253b
ployees. Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35
F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, abolished Environmental
Science Services Administration, established National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and redesig-
nated Commissioned Officer Corps of ESSA as Commis-
sioned Officer Corps of NOAA. For further details, see
Transfer of Functions note set out under section 851 of
Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters.
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.
EX. ORD. NO. 11160. REGULATIONS RELATING TO MEDICAL
CARE FOR RETIRED PERSONNEL OF COAST AND GEODETIC
SURVEY [NOW NATIONAL OCEANIC
AND ATMOSPHERIC
ADMINISTRATION] AND THEIR DEPENDENTS
Ex. Ord. No. 11160, July 6, 1964, 29 F.R. 9315, provided:
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the first
section of the Act of July 19, 1963 (Public Law 88–71, 77
Stat. 83, 42 U.S.C. 253a), and as President of the United
States, I hereby prescribe the following regulations re-
lating to the medical care of certain retired personnel
of the Coast and Geodetic Survey [now National Oce-
anic and Atmospheric Administration] and dependents
of Coast and Geodetic Survey [now National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration] ships’ officers and
crew members, both active and retired.
SECTION 1. Definitions. As used in these regulations,
the term:
(1) ‘‘Retired ships’ officer and retired crew
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