§ 411. — Establishment of Armed Forces Retirement Home.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 24USC411]
TITLE 24--HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS
CHAPTER 10--ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME
SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF RETIREMENT HOME
Sec. 411. Establishment of the Armed Forces Retirement Home
(a) Independent establishment
The Armed Forces Retirement Home is an independent establishment in
the executive branch.
(b) Purpose
The purpose of the Retirement Home is to provide, through the Armed
Forces Retirement Home--Washington and the Armed Forces Retirement
Home--Gulfport, residences and related services for certain retired and
former members of the Armed Forces.
(c) Facilities
(1) Each facility of the Retirement Home referred to in paragraph
(2) is a separate establishment of the Retirement Home.
(2) The United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home is hereby
redesignated as the Armed Forces Retirement Home--Washington. The Naval
Home is hereby redesignated as the Armed Forces Retirement Home--
Gulfport.
(d) Operation
(1) The Chief Operating Officer of the Armed Forces Retirement Home
is the head of the Retirement Home. The Chief Operating Officer is
subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of
Defense.
(2) Each facility of the Retirement Home shall be maintained as a
separate establishment of the Retirement Home for administrative
purposes and shall be under the authority, direction, and control of the
Director of that facility. The Director of each facility of the
Retirement Home is subject to the authority, direction, and control of
the Chief Operating Officer.
(e) Property and facilities
(1) The Retirement Home shall include such property and facilities
as may be acquired under paragraph (2) or accepted under section 415(f)
of this title for inclusion in the Retirement Home.
(2) The Secretary of Defense may acquire, for the benefit of the
Retirement Home, property and facilities for inclusion in the Retirement
Home.
(3) The Secretary of Defense may dispose of any property of the
Retirement Home, by sale, lease, or otherwise, that the Secretary
determines is excess to the needs of the Retirement Home. The proceeds
from such a disposal of property shall be deposited in the Armed Forces
Retirement Home Trust Fund. No such disposal of real property shall be
effective earlier than 120 days after the date on which the Secretary
transmits a notification of the proposed disposal to the Committees on
Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
(f) Department of Defense support
The Secretary of Defense may make available from the Department of
Defense to the Retirement Home, on a nonreimbursable basis,
administrative support and office services, legal and policy planning
assistance, access to investigative facilities of the Inspector General
of the Department of Defense and of the military departments, and any
other support necessary to enable the Retirement Home to carry out its
functions under this chapter.
(g) Accreditation
The Chief Operating Officer shall endeavor to secure for each
facility of the Retirement Home accreditation by a nationally recognized
civilian accrediting organization, such as the Continuing Care
Accreditation Commission and the Joint Commission for Accreditation of
Health Organizations.
(h) Annual report
The Secretary of Defense shall transmit to Congress an annual report
on the financial and other affairs of the Retirement Home for each
fiscal year.
(Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, title XV, Sec. 1511, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat.
1723; Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, title III, Sec. 366(a), Nov. 30, 1993,
107 Stat. 1630; Pub. L. 107-107, div. A, title XIV, Sec. 1403, Dec. 28,
2001, 115 Stat. 1258.)
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (f), was in the original ``this
title'', meaning title XV of Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, Nov. 5, 1990, 104
Stat. 1722, as amended, which is classified principally to this chapter.
For complete classification of title XV to the Code, see Short Title
note set out under section 401 of this title and Tables.
Amendments
2001--Pub. L. 107-107 reenacted section catchline without change and
amended text generally, substituting present provisions for provisions
relating to inclusion of existing homes in the Armed Forces Retirement
Home in subsec. (a), the purpose of the Retirement Home in subsec. (b),
its operation in subsec. (c), its property and facilities in subsec.
(d), the requirement that the Secretary of Defense make available
certain support services for the Home in subsec. (e), and its
accreditation in subsec. (f).
1993--Subsecs. (e), (f). Pub. L. 103-160 added subsec. (e) and
redesignated former subsec. (e) as (f).
Effective Date
Section effective one year after Nov. 5, 1990, see section 1541(a)
of Pub. L. 101-510, formerly set out as a note under section 401 of this
title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 401 of this title.
