---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 U.S.C. § 197"
title: "24"
title_heading: "Hospitals and Asylums"
number: "197"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 98–621, § 10(o), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3380"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/24/197"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Saint Elizabeths Hospital"
  - "Subchapter II — Inmates; Burden of Expenses Thereof; Detention of Insane"
---

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 Repealed.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 L. 98–621, § 10(o), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3380 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, acts Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 853, 31 Stat. 1163; July 1, 1916, ch. 209, 39 Stat. 309; Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85–857, § 13(b), 72 Stat. 1264, related to contracts for care, maintenance, and treatment of insane members of Army.

### 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.