---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 212b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "212b"
heading: "Repealed. Apr. 27, 1956, ch. 211, § 5(d), 70 Stat. 117"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/212b"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration and Miscellaneous Provisions"
  - "Part A — Administration"
---

# [§212b. Repealed. Apr. 27, 1956, ch. 211, § 5(d), 70 Stat. 117 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act July 31, 1953, ch. 296, title II, § 201, 67 Stat. 254, authorized recall of retired officers of the Service. See section 212(c) of this title.