---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 U.S.C. § 20"
title: "24"
title_heading: "Hospitals and Asylums"
number: "20"
heading: "Discipline of patients at Army and Navy Hospital"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/24/20"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others"
---

# §20. Discipline of patients at Army and Navy Hospital


All persons admitted to treatment in the Army and Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, shall, while patients in said hospital, be subject to the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1909, ch. 252, 35 Stat. 748.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Repeals

Act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIII, § 1313, 58 Stat. 714, as amended and renumbered by acts Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 958, § 5, 60 Stat. 1049; Feb. 28, 1948, ch. 83, § 9(b), 62 Stat. 47; July 30, 1956, ch. 779, § 3(b), 70 Stat. 721; Pub. L. 88–581, § 4(b), Sept. 4, 1964, 78 Stat. 919; Pub. L. 89–239, § 3(b), Oct. 6, 1965, 79 Stat. 931; Pub. L. 91–572, § 6(b), Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1506; Pub. L. 92–294, § 3(b), May 16, 1972, 86 Stat. 137; repealed act Mar. 3, 1919, ch. 98, § 3, 40 Stat. 1303, formerly cited as a credit to this section, which transferred lands and buildings from the War Department to the Treasury Department for the use of the Public Health Service.