---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 U.S.C. § 329"
title: "24"
title_heading: "Hospitals and Asylums"
number: "329"
heading: "Availability of appropriations for transportation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/24/329"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Hospitalization of Mentally Ill Nationals Returned from Foreign Countries"
---

# §329. Availability of appropriations for transportation


Appropriations for carrying out this chapter shall also be available for the transportation of any [eligible person](/usc/24/321.md?p=d) and necessary attendants to or from a hospital (including any hospital of a [State](/usc/24/321.md?p=c) or political subdivision to which an [eligible person](/usc/24/321.md?p=d) is released under [section 323 of this title](/usc/24/323.md)), to the place where a relative to whom any person is released under [section 323 of this title](/usc/24/323.md) resides, or to a person’s home upon his discharge from hospitalization under this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–571, § 9, July 5, 1960, 74 Stat. 310.)