Chapter 125. To provide for the coordination of the public-health activities of the Government, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 125.— An Act To provide for the coordination of the public-health activities of the Government, and for other purposes. April 9, 1930.[[H. R. 8807](/us/bill/71/hr/8807).][[Public, No. 106](/us/pl/71/106).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public-health activities. That upon the Cooperation of Public Health Service at request of department, etc., engaged in.request of the head of an executive department or an independent establishment which is carrying on a public-health activity the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to detail officers or employees of the Public Health Service to such department or independent establishment in order to cooperate in such work.
When officers or employees are so detailed their salaries and allowances shall be paid by the Public Health Service from applicable appropriations. Sec. 2. Details of personnel to institutions for special studies, etc.
(a)The Surgeon General of the Public Health Service is authorized to detail personnel of the Public Health Service to educational and research institutions for special studies of scientific problems relating to public health and for the dissemination of information relating to public health, and to extend the facilities of the Public Health Service to health officials and scientists engaged in special study.
(b)Hygienic Laboratory.Additional divisions in, for solution of health problems. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to establish such additional divisions in the Hygienic Laboratory in the District of Columbia as he deems necessary to provide agencies for the solution *Post*, p. 379.of public-health problems, and facilities therein for the coordination of research by public-health officials and other scientists and for demonstrations of sanitary methods and appliances. Sec.3. Administrative and field service organizations. The administrative office and bureau divisions of the Public Health Service in the District of Columbia shall be administered as a part of the departmental organization, and the scientific offices and research laboratories of the Public Health Service (whether or not in the District of Columbia) shall be administered as a part of the field service. Sec. 4. Appointments of officers for general service. Hereafter, under such regulations as the President may prescribe, medical, dental, sanitary engineer, and pharmacist officers selected for general service in the regular corps of the Public Health Service and subject to change of station shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; original appointments shall be made only in the grade corresponding to that of assistant surgeon or passed assistant surgeon, except as provided under sections 5 and 6 of this Act. Sec. 5. Additional appointments authorized. The President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to grades in the regular corps not above that of medical director, under such regulations as he may prescribe, not to exceed a total of fifty-five medical, dental, sanitary 151engineer, and pharmacist officers in the Public Health Service upon the date of passage of this Act (except commissioned officers of the regular corps). Not more than four such appointments shall be Grades and pay specified.in a grade above that of surgeon. In making such appointments due regard shall be had to the salary received by such officer at the time of such appointment. For purposes of pay and pay period, said Service credit.officers shall be credited only with active service in the Public Health Service and active commissioned service in the Army and the Navy. Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to order Reserve officers given active duty for training, etc.officers in the reserve of the Public Health Service to active duty for the purpose of training and of determining their fitness for appointment in the regular corps, and such active duty shall be credited for purposes of future promotion in the regular corps. Sec. 7. Whenever commissioned officers of the Public Health Appointments for specialized duties in scientific research, if regular Health Service officers not available.Service are not available for the performance of permanent duties requiring highly specialized training and experience in scientific research, the Secretary of the Treasury shall report that fact to the President with his recommendations, and the President, under the provision of this section, is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, not to exceed three persons in any Grades, pay, etc.one fiscal year to grades in the regular corps of the Public Health Service above that of assistant surgeon, but not to a grade above that of medical director; and for purposes of pay and pay period Service construed.any person appointed under the provisions of this section shall be considered as having had on the date of appointment service equal to that of the junior officer of the grade to which appointed. Sec. 8. Any person commissioned in the regular corps of the Pay of regular officers commissioned under this Act at 45 or older, placed on waiting orders for disability in line of duty.Public Health Service under the provisions of this Act of an age greater than forty-five years, if placed on waiting orders for disability incurred in line of duty, shall receive pay at the rate of 4 per centum of active pay for each complete year of service in the Army, Navy, or Public Health Service, the total to be not more than 75 per centum. Sec. 9. Hereafter commissioned officers of the regular corps of the Promotions.Service, pay, etc., of regular corps, to be same as Army medical officers.*Post*, p. 1228.Public Health Service, after examination under regulations approved by the President, shall be promoted according to the same length of service and shall receive the same pay and allowances as are now or may hereafter be authorized for officers of corresponding grades of the Medical Corps of the Army, except that—
(a)For purposes of future promotion an officer whose original Of original appointments under this Act.appointment to the regular corps under the provisions of this Act is in a grade above that of assistant surgeon shall be considered as having had on the date of appointment service equal to that of the junior officer of the grade, to which appointed; if the actual service Service credits.of such officer in the Public Health Service exceeds that of the junior officer of the grade, such actual service not exceeding ten years for a passed assistant surgeon, and fourteen years for a surgeon shall be credited for purposes of future promotion;
(b)Pharmacists shall not be promoted to the grade of passedPharmacists. assistant surgeon until after five years of service in the grade of assistant surgeon and shall not be promoted above the grade of passed assistant surgeon.
(c)When an officer, after examination under regulations approved Officers not qualified for promotion by disabilities not in line of duty.by the President, is found not qualified for promotion for reasons other than physical disability incurred in line of duty—
(1)If in the grade of assistant surgeon, he shall be separated Assistant surgeons.from the service and paid six months’ pay and allowances;
(2)If in the grade of passed assistant surgeon, he shall be separated Passed assistant surgeons.from the service and paid one year’s pay and allowances; and 152
(3)Surgeons. If in the grade of surgeon or of senior surgeon, he shall be reported as not in line of promotion, or placed on waiting orders Pay allowance.and paid at the rate of 2½ per centum for each complete year of active commissioned service in the Public Health Service, but in no case to exceed 60 per centum of his active pay at the time he is placed on waiting orders. Sec. 10. Titles to be given commissioned officers other than medical.
(a)The President is authorized to prescribe appropriate titles for commissioned officers of the Public Health Service other than medical officers, corresponding to the grades of medical officers. Assistant Surgeons General designated medical directors.Hereafter officers of the Public Health Service in the grade of Assistant Surgeon General (except those in charge of bureau Number limitation repealed.divisions) shall be known and designated as medical directors. The limitation now imposed by law upon the number of senior surgeons and Assistant Surgeons General at large of the Public Health Service on active duty is hereby repealed.
(b)Surgeon General.To nave same pay, etc., as Surgeon General of the Army. Hereafter the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service shall be entitled to the same pay and allowances as the Surgeon General of the Army; and a regular commissioned officer of the Reversion to former grade if not reap pointed.Public Health Service who serves as Surgeon General shall, upon the expiration of his commission, if not reappointed as Surgeon General, revert to the grade and number in the regular corps that he would have occupied had he not served as Surgeon General.
(c)Chief of narcotics division designated Assistant Surgeon General. The officer detailed as chief of the narcotics division of the Public Health Service shall, while thus serving, be an Assistant Surgeon General, subject to the provisions of law applicable to Assistant Surgeons General in charge of other administrative divisions of the Public Health Service. Sec. 11. Civil Service appointments of personnel other than commissioned officers. Hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury shall appoint, in accordance with the civil service laws, all officers and employees, other than commissioned officers, of the Public Health Service, and may make any such appointment effective as of the date on which the *Proviso*.No preference to any school of medicine.officer or employee enters upon duty: *Provided*, That any regulations which may be prescribed as to the qualifications as to the appointment of medical officers or employees shall give no preference to any school of medicine. Sec. 12. Medical, etc., services to officers disabled in line of duty. Hereafter officers of the Public Health Service when disabled on account of sickness or injury incurred in line of duty shall be entitled to medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Sec. 13. National Advisory Health Council.Hygienic Laboratory to be known as.*Post*, p. 379.Additional members to be appointed.Terms of service.Duties. Hereafter the advisory board for the Hygienic Laboratory shall be known as the National Advisory Health Council, and the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to appoint, from representatives of the public-health profession, five additional members of such council. The terms of service, compensation, and allowances of such additional members shall be the same as the other members of such council not in the regular employment of the Government, except that the terms of service of the members first appointed shall be so arranged that the terms of not more than two members shall expire each year. Such council, in addition to its other function, shall advise the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service in respect to public-health activities. Approved, April 9, 1930.