---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 257a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "257a"
heading: "Transferred"
status: "transferred"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/257a"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part E — Narcotic Addicts and Other Drug Abusers"
---

# [§257a. Transferred — transferred]



## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section, Pub. L. 91–513, title I, § 4, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1241; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695, which related to medical treatment of narcotics addiction, was transferred to section 290bb–2a of this title.