22-U.S.C.-2522
§2522 – Definitions
Pathway
Title 22 > Chapter 34 > Section 2522
Details
- Reference: Section 2522
- Legend: §2522 – Definitions
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
(a) The term abroad means any area outside the United States.
(b) The term United States means the several States and the District of Columbia.
(c) The term function includes any duty, obligation, right, power, authority, responsibility, privilege, discretion, activity, and program.
(d) The term health care includes all appropriate examinations, preventive, curative and restorative health and medical care, and supplementary services when necessary.
(e) For the purposes of this chapter or any other Act, the period of any individuals service as a volunteer under this chapter shall include—
(i) except for the purposes of section 2504(f) of this title, any period of training under section 2507(a) of this title prior to enrollment as a volunteer under this chapter; and
(ii) the period between enrollment as a volunteer and the termination of service as such volunteer by the President or by death or resignation.
(f) The term United States Government agency includes any department, board, wholly or partly owned corporation, or instrumentality, commission, or establishment of the United States Government.
(g) The word transportation in sections 2504(b), 2504(m), and 2505(2) of this title includes transportation of not to exceed three hundred pounds per person of unaccompanied necessary personal and household effects.
(Pub. L. 87–293, title I, §26, formerly §25, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 624; Pub. L. 89–572, §4, Sept. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 765; Pub. L. 91–352, §8, July 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 465; renumbered §26, Pub. L. 99–83, title XI, §1105(a)(1), Aug. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 276.)
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (e), was in the original this Act, meaning Pub. L. 87–293, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 612, as amended, known as the Peace Corps Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2501 of this title and Tables.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 26 of Pub. L. 87–293 was renumbered section 27 and is classified to section 2523 of this title.
Amendments
1970—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 91–352 inserted reference to section 2504(m) of this title.
1966—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 89–572 struck out territories from definition of United States.
U.S. Encyclopedia of Law Coverage
22-U.S.C.-2520 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Foreign Relations
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22-U.S.C.-2520 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Peace
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