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PUBLIC LAW 86-SB-JUNE 17, 1957

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P E N A L T Y FOR CERTAIN ACTS

SEC. 1605. Whoever (1) directly or indirectly solicits, contracts for, charges, or receives, or attempts to solicit, contract for, charge, or receive, any fee or compensation except as provided in section 1604 of this title, section 19 of the World W a r Veterans' Act, 1924, or section 617 of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, or (2) WTongfully withholds from any claimant or beneficiary any part of a benefit or claim allowed and due him, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned at hard labor for not more than two years, or both. TITLE XVII—ACQUISITION AND OPERATION OF HOSPITAL AND DOMICILIARY F A C I L I T I E S; PROCUREMENT AND S U P P L Y PART A—PROVISIONS RELATING TO HOSPITALS ANP HOMES HOSPITAL A N D DOMICILIARY FACILITIES

SEC. 1701. (a) The Administrator, subject to the approval of the President, shall provide hospitals, domiciliaries, and out-patient dispensary facilities for veterans entitled under this Act to hospital or domiciliary care or medical services. Such hospitals, domiciliaries, and other facilities may be provided by (1) purchase, replacement, or remodeling or extension of existing plants, or (2) construction of such facilities on sites already owned by the United States or on sites acquired by purchase, condemnation, gift, or otherwise. (b) Hospital and domiciliaries provided by the Administrator under subsection (a) shall be of fireproof construction. Where an existing plant is purchased it shall be remodeled to be fireproof. (c) The location of each hospital or domiciliary and its nature (whether for domiciliary care or the treatment of tuberculosis, neuropsychiatric cases, or general medical and surgical cases) shall be within the discretion of the Administrator, subject to the approval of the President. (d) The Administrator may accept gifts or donations for any of the purposes of this section. (e) The Administrator, subject to the approval of the President, may use as hospitals, domiciliaries, or out-patient dispensary facilities such suitable buildings, structures, and grounds owned by the United States on March 3, 1925, as may be available for such purposes, and the President may by Executive order transfer any such buildings, structures, and grounds to the control and jurisdiction of the Veterans' Administration upon the request of the Administrator. (f) As used in this section and in section 1702 and 1703, the term "hospitals, domiciliaries, or out-patient dispensary facilities" includes necessary buildings and auxiliary structures, mechanical equipment, approach work, roads, and trackage facilities leading thereto, sidewalks abutting hospital reservations, vehicles, livestock, furniture, equipment, accessories, accommodations for officers, nurses, and attending personnel, and proper and suitable recreational facilities. CONSTRUCTION A N D REPAIR OF BUILDINGS

SEC. 1702. The construction of new hospitals, domiciliaries and out-patient dispensary facilities, or the replacement, extension, alteration, remodeling, or repair of all such facilities shall be done in such manner as the President may determine. The President may require the architectural, engineering, constructing, or other forces of any 84352 O - 58 - 12

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