(1) The term "psychiatric disorders" includes diseases of the nervous system which affect mental health; (m) The term "State mental health authority" means the State health authority, except that, in the case of any State in which there is a single State agency. other than the State health authority, charged with responsibility for administering the mental health program of the State, it means such other State agency; 2/(n) The term "heart diseases" means diseases of the heart and circulation; (0) The term "dental diseases and conditions" means diseases and conditions affecting teeth and their supporting structures, and other related diseases of the mouth.3 and Subsection (1) and (m) were added by section 3 of the National Mental Health Act. 2/Subsection (n) was added by section 6(a) of the National Heart Act, and was amended, by deleting the period and adding in lieu thereof"; and", by section 6(a) of National Dental Research Act. 3/Subsection (o) was added by section 6(a) of the National Dental Research Act. Sec. 201. The Public Health Service in the Federal Security Agency shall 42 USC 202 be administered by the Surgeon General under the supervision and direction of the Administrator. Sec. 202. The Service shall consist of (1) the Office of the Surgeon General, (2) the National Institutes of Health, (3) the Bureau of Medical Services, and (4) the Bureau of State Services. The Surgeon General is authorized and 1/ directed to assign to the Office of the Surgeon General, to the National Institutes of Health, to the Bureau of Medical Services, and to the Bureau of State Services, respectively, the several functions of the Service, and to establish within them such divisions, sections, and other units as he may find necessary; and from time to time abolish, transfer, and consolidate divisions, sections, and other units and assign their functions and personnel in such manner as he may find necessary for efficient operation of the Service. No division shall be established, abolished, or transferred, and no divisions shall be consolidated, except with the approval of the Administrator. The National Institutes of Health shall be administered as a part of the field service. The Surgeon General may delegate to any officer or employee of the Service such of his powers and duties under this Act, except the making of regulations, as he may deem necessary or expedient. Sec. 203. There shall be in the Service a commissioned Regular Corps and, for the purpose of securing a reserve for duty in the Service in time of national emergency, a Reserve Corps. All commissioned officers shall be citizens and shall be appointed without regard to the civil-service laws and compensated without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Commissioned officers of the Reserve Corps shall be appointed by the President and commissioned officers of the Regular Corps shall be appointed by him by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Commissioned officers of the Reserve Corps shall at all times be subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon General, including active duty for the purpose of training and active duty for the purpose of determining their fitness for appointment in the Regular Corps. Sec. 204. The Surgeon General shall be appointed from the Regular Corps for a four-year term by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Upon the expiration of such term the Surgeon General, unless reappointed, shall revert to the grade and number in the Regular Corps that he would have occupied had he not served as Surgeon General. Deputy Surgeon General and Assistant Surgeons General 42 USC 206 Sec. 205. (a) The Surgeon General shall assign one commissioned officer from the Regular Corps to administer the Office of the Surgeon General, to act as Surgeon General during the absence or disability of the Surgeon General or in the event of a vacancy in that office, and to perform such other duties as the Surgeon General may prescribe, and while so assigned he shall have the title of Deputy Surgeon General. 1/Section 202 was Institute. a mended by 6(b) of the National Heart Act by adding an 2/The Act of August 28, 1948, 63 Stat. 972, directs that this reference shall be held to mean the Classification Act of 1949. 3/Section 2 of PL 425, 80th Congress amended section 203 by deleting the last sentence thereof. (b) The Surgeon General shall assign six commissioned officers from the Regular Corps to be, respectively, the Director of the National Institutes of Health, the Chief of the Bureau of State Services, the Chief of the Bureau of Medical Services, the Chief Medical Officer of the United States Coast Guard, the Chief Dental Officer of the Service, and the Chief Sanitary Engineering Officer of the Service, and while so serving they shall each have the title of Assistant Surgeon General. (c) The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Administrator, is authorized to create special temporary positions in the grade of Assistant Surgeons General when necessary for the proper staffing of the Service; but the number of such special temporary positions, when added to the eight positions created by section 204 and subsections (a) and (b) of this section, shall not on any day exceed three-fourths of 1 per centum of the highest number, during the ninety days preceding such day, of officers of the Regular Corps on active duty and officers of the Reserve Corps on active duty for more than thirty days. The Surgeon General may assign officers of either the Regular Corps or the Reserve Corps to any such special temporary positions, and while so serving they shall each have the title of Assistant Surgeon General.2/ (d) The Surgeon General shall designate the Assistant Surgeon General who shall serve as Surgeon General in case of absence or disability, or vacancy in the offices, of both the Surgeon General and the Deputy Surgeon General.3/ Grades, Ranks, and Titles of the Commissioned Corps 42 USC 207 (a) The Surgeon General, during the period of his appointment as such, shall be of the same grade, with the same pay and allowances, as the Surgeon General of the Army; the Deputy Surgeon General and the Chief Medical Officer of the United States Coast Guard, while assigned as such, shall have the grade corresponding with the grade of major general, with the pay and allowances thereof; and the Chief Dental Officer, while assigned as such, shall have the grade, with the same pay and allowances, as is prescribed by law for the officer of the Dental Corps selected and appointed as Assistant Surgeon General of the Army. Assistant Surgeons General, while assigned as such, shall have the grade, with the pay and allowances thereof, corresponding with either the grade of brigadier general or the grade of major general, as may be determined by the Administrator after considering the importance of the duties to be performed: PROVIDED, That the number of Assistant Surgeons General having a grade higher than that corresponding to the grade of brigadier general shall at no time exceed one-half of the number of positions created by subsection (b) of section 205 or pursuant to subsection (c) of such section. The grades of commissioned officers of the Service shall correspond with grades of officers of the Army as follows: (1) Officers of the director grade--colonel; Officers of the full grade--major; (4) (5) Officers of the senior assistant grade--captain; (6) (b) The titles of medical officers of the foregoing grades shall be respectively (1) medical director, (2) senior surgeon, (3) surgeon, (4) senior assistant surgeon, (5) assistant surgeon and (6) junior assistant surgeon. The President is authorized to prescribe titles, appropriate to the several grades, for commissioned officers of the Service other than medical officers. All titles of the officers of the Reserve Corps shall have the suffix "Reserve". " 1/Subsection (b) was amended by 6(b) of the National Heart Act by adding an s" to Institute. 2/Subsection (c) was added by section 3 of PL 425, 80th Congress. 3/ Section 3 of PL 425, 80th Congress, redesignated this subsection, which was formerly subsection (e), as subsection (d). 4/The first sentence of subsection (a) was amended by PL 246, and PL 583, 82d Congress. (c) Any commissioned officer below the grade of director who is assigned to serve as chief of a division shall, for the duration of such assignment, have the grade of director and receive the pay and allowances applicable to such grade. (d) Within the total number of officers of the Regular Corps authorized by the appropriation Act or Acts for each fiscal year to be on active duty, the Administrator shall by regulation prescribe the maximum number of officers authorized to be in each of the grades from the junior assistant grade to the director grade, inclusive. Such numbers shall be determined after considering the anticipated needs of the Service during the fiscal year, the funds available, the number of officers in each grade at the beginning of the fiscal year, and the anticipated appointments, the anticipated promotions based on years of service, and the anticipated retirements during the fiscal year. The number so determined for any grade for a fiscal year may not exceed the number limitation (if any) contained in the appropriation Act or Acts for such year. Such regulations for each fiscal year shall be prescribed as promptly as possible after the appropriation Act fixing the authorized strength of the corps for that year, and shall be subject to amendment only if such authorized strength or such number limitation is thereafter changed. The maxima established by such regulations shall not require (apart from action pursuant to other provisions of this Act) any officer to be separated from the Service or reduced in grade.1/ Sec. 207.2/(a)(1) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (e) of this section, original appointments to the Regular Corps may be made only in the junior assistant, assistant, and senior assistant grades and original appointments to a grade above junior assistant shall be made only after passage of an examination, given in accordance with regulations of the President, in one or more of the several branches of medicine, dentistry, hygiene, sanitary engineering, pharmacy, nursing, or related scientific specialties in the field of public health. (2) Original appointments to the Reserve Corps may be made to any grade up to and including the director grade but only after passage of an examination given in accordance with regulations of the President. Reserve commissions shall be for an indefinite period and may be terminated at any time, as the President may direct. 3 (b) Not more than 10 per centum of the original appointments to the Regular Corps authorized to be made during any fiscal year may be made to grades above that of senior assistant, but no such appointment may be made to a grade above that of director. For the purpose of this subsection the number of original appointments authorized to be made during a fiscal year shall be (1) the excess of the number of officers of the Regular Corps authorized by the appropriation Act or Acts for such year over the number of officers on active duty in the Regular Corps on the first day of such year, plus (2) the number of such officers of the Regular Corps who, during such fiscal year, have been or will be retired upon attainment of age sixty-four or have for any other reason ceased to be on active duty. In determining the number of appointments authorized by this subsection an appointment shall be deemed to be made in the fiscal year in which the nomination is transmitted by the President to the Senate. No person shall be appointed pursuant to this subsection unless he meets standards established in accordance with regulations of the President. 4/ 1/ Subsections (c) and (d) were added by section 4(b) of PL 425, 90th Congress. 2/ Section 5(a) of PL 425, 80th Congress repealed section 207 and redesignated the former section 208 as section 207. 3/ The second sentence of paragraph (2) of subsection (a) was amended by section 3(c)(1) of PL 492, 84th Congress, by striking out "a period of not more than five years", and inserting in lieu thereof "an indefinite period". Note, however, that--"this shall not affect the term of the commission of any officer in the Reserve Corps in effect on the date of such enactment unless such officer consents in writing to the extension of his commission for an indefinite period, in which event his commission shall be 4/ so extended without necessity of a new appointment." (Section 3(c)(2) of PL 492, 84th Congress). Subsection (b) was amended by section 4 of the National Mental Health Act, section 3 of the Hospital Survey and Construction Act and section 5(c) of PL 425, 80th Congress. (c) Commissions evidencing the appointment by the President of officers of the Regular or Reserve Corps shall be issued by the Administrator under the seal of the Federal Security Agency. 1 (d) (1) For purposes of basic pay and for purposes of promotion, any person appointed under subsection (a) to the grade of senior assistant in the Regular Corps, and any person appointed under subsection (b), shall, except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, be considered as having had on the date of appointment the following length of service: Three years if appointed to the senior assistant grade, ten years if appointed to the full grade, seventeen years if appointed to the senior grade, and eighteen years if appointed to the director grade. 1/ (2) For purposes of basic pay, any person appointed under subsection (a) to the grade of senior assistant in the Regular Corps, and any person appointed under subsection (b), shall, in lieu of the credit provided in paragraph (1), be credited with the service for which he is entitled to credit under any other provision of law if such service exceeds that to which he would be entitled under such paragraph. (3) For purposes of promotion, any person originally appointed in the Regular Corps to the senior assistant grade or above who has had active service in the Reserve Corps shall be considered as having had on the date of appointment the length of service provided for in paragraph (1), plus whichever of the following is greater: (A) The excess of his total active service in the Reserve Corps (above the grade of junior assistant) over the length of service provided in such paragraph, to the extent that such excess is on account of service in the Reserve Corps in or above the grade to which he is appointed in the Regular Corps or (B) his active service in the same or any higher grade in the Reserve Corps after the first day on which, under regulations in effect on the date of his appointment to the Regular Corps, he would have had the training and experience necessary for such appointment. (4) For purposes of promotion, any person whose original appointment is to the assistant grade in the Regular Corps shall be considered as having had on the date of appointment service equal to his total active service in the Reserve Corps in and above the assistant grade. (e) (1) A former officer of the Regular Corps may, if application for appointment is made within two years after the date of the termination of his prior commission in the Regular Corps, be reappointed to the Regular Corps without examination, except as the Surgeon General may otherwise prescribe, and without regard to the numerical limitations of subsection (b). (2) Reappointments pursuant to this subsection may be made to the permanent grade held by the former officer at the time of the termination of his prior commission, or to the next higher grade if such officer meets the eligibility requirements prescribed by regulation for original appointment to such higher grade. For purposes of pay, promotion, and seniority in grade, such reappointed officer shall receive the credits for service to which he would be entitled if such appointment were an original appointment, but in no event less than the credits he held at the time his prior commission was terminated, except that if such officer is reappointed to the next higher grade he shall receive no credit for seniority in grade. (3) No former officer shall be reappointed pursuant to this subsection unless he shall meet such standards as the Secretary may prescribe. 2/ (f) In accordance with regulations, special consultants may be employed to assist and advise in the operations of the Service. Such consultants may be appointed without regard to the civil-service laws and their compensation may be fixed without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. 2/ 3/ (g) In accordance with regulations, individual scientists, other than commissioned officers of the Service, may be designated by the Surgeon General to receive fellowships, appointed for duty with the Service without regard to the civilservice laws and compensated without regard to the Classification Act of 1923 as amended, may hold their fellowships under conditions prescribed therein, and may be assigned for studies or investigations either in this country or abroad during the terms of their fellowships.2/ 1/ Subsections (c) and (d) were added by section 5(d) of PL. 425, 80th Congress, Paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (d) were amended by section 1(f), of the Career Compensation Act of 1949. 2/ New subsection (e) was added, and the forme subsections (e) and (f) were redesignated as subsections (f) and (g), respectively, by section 3(b) of PL 492, 84th Congress. 3/ The Act of Aug. 28, 1948, 63 Stat. 972, directs that this reference shall be held to mean the Classification Act of 1949. |