Sec. 232. use of immigration station hospitals

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## Sec. 232 use of immigration station hospitals **[**238a**]** The Immigration and Naturalization Service may, by agreement of the heads of the departments concerned, permit the Public Health Service to use hospitals at immigration stations for the care of Public Health Service patients. The Surgeon General shall reimburse the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the actual cost of furnishing fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, which reimbursement shall be covered into the proper Immigration and Naturalization Service appropriation, or such costs may be paid from working funds established as provided by law, but no charge shall be made for the expense of physical upkeep of the hospitals.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service shall reimburse the Surgeon General for the care and treatment of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service at the request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service unless such persons are entitled to care and treatment under section 322(a).15 15Subsection

(a)of section 322 was repealed by section 986 of Public Law 97–35, and the Public Law redesignated former subsection

(c)as subsection (a). Section 232 (above) was enacted before this repeal and redesignation. Current section 322(a) authorizes the treatment and care of certain persons. (Section 232 was originally enacted as section 502, and was subsequently redesignated by Public Laws 98–24, 99–660, 100–690, and 103–43.)

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