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title: "24 U.S.C. § 329"
description: "Availability of appropriations for transportation"
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title_number: 24
title_name: "HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS"
chapter_number: "9"
chapter_name: "HOSPITALIZATION OF MENTALLY ILL NATIONALS RETURNED FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES"
section: "329"
citation: "24 U.S.C. § 329"
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# 24 U.S.C. § 329 - Availability of appropriations for transportation

## Text

Appropriations for carrying out this chapter shall also be available for the transportation of any eligible person and necessary attendants to or from a hospital (including any hospital of a State or political subdivision to which an eligible person is released under section 323 of this title), to the place where a relative to whom any person is released under section 323 of this title resides, or to a person’s home upon his discharge from hospitalization under this chapter.

(Pub. L. 86–571, § 9, July 5, 1960, 74 Stat. 310.)