---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 705"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "705"
heading: "Telephone service for medical officers and facility directors"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/705"
units:
  - "Part I — General Provisions"
  - "Chapter 7 — Employees"
  - "Subchapter I — General Employee Matters"
---

# §705. Telephone service for medical officers and facility directors


The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may pay for official telephone service and rental in the field whenever incurred in case of official telephones for directors of centers, hospitals, independent clinics, domiciliaries, and medical officers of the [Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) where such telephones are installed in private residences or private apartments or quarters, when authorized under regulations prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 102–83, § 2(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 395.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 705 was renumbered section 1905 of this title.

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 234 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–83, § 2(a).