---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 U.S.C. § 196"
title: "24"
title_heading: "Hospitals and Asylums"
number: "196"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 98–621, § 10(m), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3380"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/24/196"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Saint Elizabeths Hospital"
  - "Subchapter II — Inmates; Burden of Expenses Thereof; Detention of Insane"
---

# [§196. Repealed. Pub. L. 98–621, § 10(m), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3380 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, acts June 12, 1917, ch. 27, 40 Stat. 179; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, § 11(a), eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2422, 54 Stat. 1236; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, § 5, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; Oct. 18, 1962, Pub. L. 87–845, § 6, 76A Stat. 699; Oct. 17, 1979, Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), 93 Stat. 695, related to transfer to Saint Elizabeths Hospital of American citizens adjudged insane in Canal Zone.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective Oct. 1, 1987, see section 12(b) of Pub. L. 98–621, set out as an Effective Date note under section 225 of this title.