---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 209d"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "209d"
heading: "Appointment of osteopaths as commissioned officers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/209d"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration and Miscellaneous Provisions"
  - "Part A — Administration"
---

# §209d. Appointment of osteopaths as commissioned officers


Graduates of colleges of osteopathy whose graduates are eligible for licensure to practice medicine or osteopathy in a majority of the [States](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) of the United States, or approved by a body or bodies acceptable to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), shall be eligible, subject to the other provisions of this Act, for appointment as commissioned medical officers in the Public Health [Service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a).


## Source credit

(Feb. 28, 1948, ch. 83, § 5(b), 62 Stat. 40; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §§ 5, 8, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act Feb. 28, 1948, ch. 83, 62 Stat. 38. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

### Codification

Section was not enacted as a part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public Health Service, and all other officers and employees of Public Health Service, and functions of all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, set out as a note under section 202 of this title.

Functions of Federal Security Administrator transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and all agencies of Federal Security Agency transferred to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by section 5 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953, set out as a note under section 3501 of this title. Federal Security Agency and office of Administrator abolished by section 8 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953.