1450 64 Stat. 1085. 18 USC 5005S026.
PUBLIC LAW 89-793-NOV. 8, 1966
[80 STAT.
Attorney General pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Youth Corrections Act (chapter 402 of title 18 of the United States Code), addicts who voluntarily submit themselves for treatment, and addicts convicted of offenses against the United States and who are not sentenced to treatment under the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act of 1966, including persons convicted by general courts-martial and consular courts. Such care and treatment shall be provided at hospitals of the Service especially equipped for the accommodation of such patients or elsewhere where authorized under other provisions of law, and shall be designed to rehabilitate such persons, to restore them to health, and, where necessary, to train them to be self-supporting and self-reliant; but nothing in this section or in this part shall be construed to limit the authority of the Surgeon General under other provisions of law to provide for the conditional release of patients and for aftercare under supervision. " (b) Upon the admittance to, and departure from, a hospital of the Service of a person who voluntarily submitted himself for treatment pursuant to the provisions of this section, and who at the time of his admittance to such hospital was a resident of the District of Columbia, the Surgeon General shall furnish to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or their designated agent, the name, address, and such other pertinent information as may be useful in the rehabilitation to society of such person." SEC. 602. The Surgeon General and the Attorney General are authorized to give representatives of States and local subdivisions thereof the benefit of their experience in the care, treatment, and rehabilitation of narcotic addicts so that each State may be encouraged to provide adequate facilities and personnel for the care and treatment of narcotic addicts in its jurisdiction. SEC. 603. The table of contents to "PART III.—PRISONS AND PRISONERS" of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after
- '313. Mental defectives
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a new chapter reference as follows: ".'il4. Xarcotic addicts
42."»r'. and the table of contents to "PART VI.—PARTICULAR PROCEKDIN<IS" of
title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting after "173. Attachment in ix>stal suits
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a new chapter reference as follows: "175. Civil commitment and rehabilitation of narcotic addicts Separability.
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SEC. 604. I f any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby. Effective dates. SEC. 605. Title I of this Act shall take effect three months after the date of its enactment, and shall apply to any case pending in a district court of the United States in which an appearance has not been made prior to such effective date. Titles II and V of this Act shall take effect three months after the date of its enactment and shall apply to any case pending in any court of the United States in which sentence has not yet been imposed as of such effective date. Title III of this Act shall take effect three months after the date of its enactment. SEC. 606. The provisions of this Act shall be subject to the provisions Post, p. 1610. of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966. Appropriation. SEC. 607. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved November 8, 1966.
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