---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1616q"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1616q"
heading: "Exemption from payment of certain fees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1616q"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Indian Health Care"
  - "Subchapter I — Indian Health Professional Personnel"
---

# §1616q. Exemption from payment of certain fees


Employees of a [tribal health program](/usc/25/1603.md?p=25) or [urban Indian organization](/usc/25/1603.md?p=29) shall be exempt from payment of licensing, registration, and any other fees imposed by a Federal agency to the same extent that officers of the commissioned corps of the Public Health [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) and other employees of the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) are exempt from those fees.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–437, title I, § 124, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section 124 of Pub. L. 94–437 is based on section 113 of title I of S. 1790, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, as reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate in Dec. 2009, which was enacted into law by section 10221(a) of Pub. L. 111–148.