---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 217b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "217b"
heading: "Volunteer services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/217b"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration and Miscellaneous Provisions"
  - "Part A — Administration"
---

# §217b. Volunteer services


Subject to [regulations](/usc/42/201.md?p=d), volunteer and uncompensated [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) may be accepted by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), or by any other officer or [employee](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-5) of the Department of Health and Human [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) designated by him, for use in the operation of any health care facility or in the provision of health care.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 223, as added Pub. L. 90–174, § 6, Dec. 5, 1967, 81 Stat. 539; amended Pub. L. 103–43, title XX, § 2008(h), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 212.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1993—Pub. L. 103–43 substituted “Health and Human Services” for “Health, Education, and Welfare”.