---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 U.S.C. § 196a"
title: "24"
title_heading: "Hospitals and Asylums"
number: "196a"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 86–571, § 10(b), July 5, 1960, 74 Stat. 310"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/24/196a"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Saint Elizabeths Hospital"
  - "Subchapter II — Inmates; Burden of Expenses Thereof; Detention of Insane"
---

# [§196a. Repealed. Pub. L. 86–571, § 10(b), July 5, 1960, 74 Stat. 310 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, acts Mar. 2, 1929, ch. 509, 45 Stat. 1495; June 25, 1936, ch. 804, 49 Stat. 1921, authorized transfer to Saint Elizabeths Hospital of American citizens adjudged insane in Canada. See section 321 et seq. of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective upon the date of enactment of legislation appropriating funds for carrying out section 321 et seq. of this title, see Effective Date of Repeal note set out under section 191a of this title.