---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 U.S.C. § 17"
title: "24"
title_heading: "Hospitals and Asylums"
number: "17"
heading: "Government of Naval Asylum"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/24/17"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others"
---

# §17. Government of Naval Asylum


The asylum for disabled and decrepit Navy officers, seamen, and marines shall be governed in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 4811.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 4811 derived from act Feb. 26, 1811, ch. 26, § 4, 2 Stat. 650.