An Act to amend title 10, United States Code,., to permit members of the Armed Forces to be assigned or detailed to the Environmental Science Services Administration, Department of Commerce
PL 89-683 (H.R.17119), enacted 10/15/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-683-OCT. 15, 1966 
[80 
STAT. 
Confidential 
information. 
Penalty. 
Effective date. 
(2) any other person in the District of Columbia, certified by 
the Department of Public Health as duly qualified to administer 
and interpret a standard laboratory blood test, 
to conduct such test or sign the statement required by section 2 of this 
Act, any medical officer of the Department of Public Health of the 
District of Columbia is authorized to conduct such test and provide 
such statement at no cost to such person. 
SEC. 5. Any information obtained from any laboratory blood test 
required under section 2 of this Act shall be regarded as confidential by 
each person, agency, or committee who obtains, transmits, or receives 
such information. 
SEC. 6. Whoever— 
(1) knowingly divulges, other than in accordance with the pro-
visions of this Act, any information, derived from the laboratory 
blood test required by section 2 of this Act, relating to any person 
suffering, or suspected to be suffering from, syphilis, 
(2) knowingly misrepresents any fact called for by the state-
ment required by such section, or knowingly falsifies any material 
fact in connection with the laboratory blood test required by such 
section, 
(3) knowingly issues a marriage license without having received 
the statement required under such section or an order of the 
United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued 
under section 3 of this Act, or 
(4) otherwise fails to comply with any other provision of this 
Act, 
shall be imprisoned for not more than six months, or fined not more 
than $250, or both. 
Prosecutions for violations of this section shall 
be conducted by the Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect upon the expiration of ninety days 
after the date of its enactment. 
Approved October 15, 1966. 
October 15, 1966 
[H. R. 17119] 
Public Law 89-683 
AN ACT 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit members of the armed forcein 
to be assigned or detailed to the Environmental Science Services Administra-
tion, Department of Commerce. 
Armed Forces. 
Assignment of 
members to Com-
merce Department. 
70A Stat. 32. 
10 u s e 711-718. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houae of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That chapter 41 of 
title 10, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by adding the following new section: 
"§ 719. Department of Commerce: assignment or detail to Envi-
ronmental Science Services Administration 
"Upon tlie request of the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of 
a military department may assign or detail members of the armed 
forces under his jurisdiction for duty in the Environmental Science 
Services Administration, Department of Commerce, with reimburse-
ment from the Department of Commerce. 
Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, a member so assigned or detailed may exercise the 
functions, and assume the title, of any position in that Administration 
without aft'ecting his status as a member of an armed force, but he is 
not entitled to the compensation fixed for that position."; and 
(2) by adding the following new item at the end of the analysis: 
"719. Department of Commerce: assignment or detail to Environmental Science 
Services Administration." 
Approved October 15, 1966.