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PUBLIC LAW 89-140-AUG. 28, 1965

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dents and deaths, injuries, and property damage resulting therefrom, on highways on the Federal-aid system. Such highway saiety program should be in accordance with uniform standards approved by the Secretary and should include, but not be limited to, provisions for an effective accident records system, and measures calculated to improve driver performance, vehicle safety, highway design and maintenance, traffic control, and surveillance of traffic for detection and correction of high or potentially high accident locations." (b) The analysis of chapter 1 of title 23 of the United States Code is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "l.S.">. Highway safety programs." Approved August 28, 1965.

Public Law 89-140 AN ACT To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize transiwrtation at Government expense for dependents accompanying members of the uniformecally available.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 53 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by adding the following new section at the end thereof: " (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), if a dependent accompanying)^ a member of the uniformed services who is stationed outside the United States and who is on active duty for a period of more than thirty days requires medical attention which is not available in the locality, transportation of the dependents at the expense of the United States is authorized to the nearest appropriate medical facility in which adequate medical care is available. On his recovery or when it is administratively determined that the patient should be removed from the medical facility involved, the dependent may be transported at the expense of the United States to the duty station of the member or to such other place determined to be appropriate under the circumstances. If a dependent is unable to travel unattended, round-trip transportation and travel expenses may be furnished necessary attendants. " (b) This section does not authorize transportation and travel expenses for a dependent for elective surgery which is determined to be not medically indicated by a medical authority designated under joint regulations to be prescribed under this section. "(c) 'Dependent' and 'uniformed services' in this section have the meanings of those terms as defined in section 1072 of this title. " (d) Transportation and travel expenses authorized by this section shall be furnished in accordance with joint regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, which shall require the use of transportiition facilities of the United States insofar as practicable."; and (2) by adding the following new item at the end of the analysis: '•;104<). Transiw)i"tation of dependent patients." Approved August 28, 1965.
 * § 1040. Transportation of dependent patients

August 23, 1965 [H. R. 7595]

Uniformed services. Dependent pat i e n t s, transportation. 10 USC 10311039.

Definitions. 72 Stat. 1446..

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