An Act to provide Federal financial assistance for the reconstruction or repair of private nonprofit medical care facilities which are damaged or destroyed by a major disaster
PL 92-209 (S.1237), enacted 12/18/1971

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PUBLIC LAW 92-209-DEC. 18, 1971 
[85 STAT. 
Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, I)e Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, 
and Webster. 
"Court for the Shreveport Division shall be held at Shreveport. 
"(4) The Monroe Division comprises the parishes of Caldwell, 
Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, More-
house, Ouachita, Richland, Tensas, LTnion, and West Carroll. 
"'Court for the Monroe Division shall be held at Monroe. 
"(5) The Lake Charles Division comprises the parishes of Allen, 
Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, and Vernon. 
"Court for the Lake Charles Division shall be held at Lake Charles. 
"(6) The Lafayette Division comprises the parishes of Acadia, 
Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, Saint Mary, and Vermilion. 
"Court for the Lafayette Division shall be held at Lafayette." 
(b) The district judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana holding 
office on the da;^ immediately prior to the effective date of this section, 
and whose official station on such date is Baton Rou^e, shall, on and 
after such date, be the district judge for the Middle District of Louisi-
ana. All other district judges for the Eastern District of Louisiana 
holding office on the day immediately prior to the effective date of 
this section shall be district judges for the Eastern District of Louisi-
ana as constituted by this section. 
(c) (1) Nothing in this section shall in any manner affect the tenure 
of office of the United States attorney and the L^nited States marshal 
for the Eastern District of Louisiana who are in office on the effective 
date of this section, and who shall be during the remainder of their 
present terms of office the United States attorney and marshal for the 
Eastern District of Louisiana as constituted by this section. 
(2) The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, a United States attorney and marshal for the 
Middle District of Louisiana. 
(d) The table contained in section 133 of title 28 of the United States 
84 Stat. 295. 
Code is amended to read as follows with respect to the State of 
Louisiana: 
"Districts 
Judges 
* 
4: 
* 
* 
* 
• 
4: 
"Louisiana: 
"Eastern 
. 
9 
"Middle 
1 
"Western 
4". 
75 Stat. 83. 
(e) Sectiou 134(c) of title 28 of the United States Code is amended 
by deleting the first sentence. 
Effective date. 
^f^ rpj^^ provisious of tMs section shall become effective one hun-
dred and twenty days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved December 18, 1971. 
Public Law 92-209 
December 18, 1971 
A N A C T 
[s. 1237] 
To provide Federal financial assistance for the reconstruction or repair of private 
nonprofit medical care facilities which are damaged or destroyed by a major 
disaster. 
Be it enacted hy tlie Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
ca/care^rTiiities. United States of Amsrica in Congress assembled^ That title I I of 
Disaster relief, 
the Disaster Relief Act of 1970 is amended by adding at the end thereof 
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the following new section: 
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PUBLIC LAW 92-210-DEC. 22, 1971 
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"PRIVATE MEDICAL CARE FACILITIES 
"SEC. 255. (a) The President is authorized to make grants for the 
repair, reconstruction, or replacement of any medical care facility 
which is owned by an organization exempt from taxation under section 
501 (c), (d), or (e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and is 
^^Itt'leg^^^' 
operated to carry out the exempt purposes of such organization, and 
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which is damaged or destroyed by a major disaster. Such assistance 
shall be made available only on application, and subject to such rules 
and regulations as the President may prescribe. 
"(b) A grant made under the provisions of subsection (a) shall not 
Limitation. 
exceed— 
"(1) 100 per centum of the net cost of repairing, restoring, 
reconstructing, or replacing any such facility on the basis of the 
design of such facility as it existed immediately prior to such 
disaster and in conformity with applicable codes, specifications, 
and standards; or 
" (2) in the case of any such facility which was under construc-
tion when so damaged or destroyed, 50 per centum of the net 
cost of restoring such facility substantially to its condition prior 
to such disaster, and of completing construction not performed 
prior to such disaster to the extent that the cost of completing 
such construction is increased over the original construction cost 
due to changed conditions resulting from such disaster. 
"(c) For purposes of this section, 'medical care facility' includes, 
without limitation, any hospital, diagnostic or treatment center, or 
rehabilitation facility as such terms are defined in section 645 of the 
Public Health Service Act, and any similar facility offering diagnosis 
^s stat. 460; 
or treatment of mental or physical injury or disease, including the \2*usc^29io. 
administrative and support facilities essential to the operating of such 
medical care facilities although not contiguous thereto." 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall 
Effective date, 
take effect as of January 1,1971. 
Approved December 18, 1971. 
Public Law 92-210 
AN ACT 
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rt.v-.i 
December 22, 1971 
To extend and amend the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970, as amended, and 
[s. 2891] 
for otlier purposes. 
Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Repiesentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Conqtess amemhled. That this Act may be 
Economic stabui-
Cited as the "J^^coiiomic stabilization Act Amendments oi 19/1 . 
"Medical care 
facility." 
zation Act Amend-
ments o
f 1971. 
ECOXOMIC STABILIZATION A
C
T OF 15)70 
SEC. 2. Title I I of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Defense 
Production Act of 1950, and for other purposes'", approved August 15, 
1970 (Public Law 91-379), as amended, is amended to read as follows: 
Ante, p. 38.