Sec. 26. definitions

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## Sec. 26 definitions **[**2522**]** In this Act: ####

(1)The term “**abroad**” means any area outside the United States. ####

(2)The term “**function**” includes any duty, obligation, right, power, authority, responsibility, privilege, discretion, activity and program. ####

(3)The term “**health care**” includes all appropriate examinations, preventive, curative, and restorative health and medical care, and supplementary services when necessary. ####

(4)The term “**medical officer**” means a physician, nurse practitioner, physician’s assistant, or registered nurse with the professional qualifications, expertise, and abilities consistent with the needs of the Peace Corps and the post to which he or she is assigned, as determined by the Director of the Peace Corps. ####

(5)The word “**transportation**” in sections 5(b), 5(m), and 6(2) includes transportation of not to exceed three hundred pounds per person of unaccompanied necessary personal and household effects. ####

(6)The term of “**United States**” means the several States and the District of Columbia. ####

(7)The term “**United States Government agency**” includes any department, board, wholly or partly owned corporation, or instrumentality, commission, or establishment of the United States Government. ####

(8)For the purposes of this or any other Act, the period of any individual's service as a volunteer under this Act shall include— ##### (i)6 except for the purposes of section 5(f) of this Act, any period of training under section 8(a) prior to enrollment as a volunteer under this Act; and 6So in law. Clauses

(i)and

(ii)probably should be redesignated as subparagraphs

(A)and (B). #####

(ii)the period between enrollment as a volunteer and the termination of service as such volunteer by the President or by death or resignation.