§ 37. — Manufacture of products by patients at naval hospitals; ownership of products.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 24USC37]
TITLE 24--HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS
CHAPTER 1--NAVY HOSPITALS, ARMY AND NAVY HOSPITAL, AND HOSPITAL RELIEF
FOR SEAMEN AND OTHERS
Sec. 37. Manufacture of products by patients at naval hospitals;
ownership of products
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to furnish materials for the
manufacture or production by patients of products incident to the
convalescence and rehabilitation of such patients in naval hospitals and
other naval medical facilities, and ownership thereof shall be vested in
the patients manufacturing or producing such products, except that the
ownership of items manufactured or produced specifically for the use of
a naval hospital or other naval medical facility shall be vested in the
Government and such items shall be accounted for and disposed of
accordingly.
(Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, Sec. 27, 60 Stat. 856.)
Delegation of Powers and Authority
Section 39 of act Aug. 2, 1946, authorized Secretary of the Navy to
delegate to such persons in Naval Establishment and to such extent as he
may deem proper, with or without authority to make successive
redelegations, authority conferred upon Secretary by this section,
except authority to prescribe regulations. Such section 39 was repealed
by act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, Sec. 53, 70A Stat. 641, less its
applicability to this section and section 21a of this title.
