---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 31.8"
title: "42"
number: "31.8"
heading: "Retired personnel; extent of treatment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/31.8"
---

# §31.8. Retired personnel; extent of treatment.

- (a) A retired member of the Coast Guard, National Ocean Survey, or Public Health Service specified in [§ 31.2](/cfr/42/31.2.md) shall be entitled to medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization at medical relief stations of the first-, second-, and third-class, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence of his status.
- (b) Elective medical or surgical treatment requiring hospitalization shall be furnished only at hospitals operated by the Service.
- (c) Dental treatment shall be furnished to the extent of available facilities only at medical relief stations where full-time dental officers are on duty; at other medical relief stations the dental treatment shall be limited to emergency measures necessary to relieve pain.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 21 FR 9821, Dec. 12, 1956, unless otherwise noted.