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§ 205. Appointment and tenure of office of Surgeon General; reversion in rank\n

The Surgeon General shall be appointed from the Regular Corps for a four-year term by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Surgeon General shall be appointed from individuals who (1) are members of the Regular Corps, and (2) have specialized training or significant experience in public health programs. Upon the expiration of such term the Surgeon General, unless reappointed, shall revert to the grade and number in the Regular Corps or Ready Reserve Corps that he would have occupied had he not served as Surgeon General.

\n(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 204, 58 Stat. 684; Pub. L. 97–25, title III, § 303(a), July 27, 1981, 95 Stat. 145; Pub. L. 97–35, title XXVII, § 2765(b), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 932; Pub. L. 116–136, div. A, title III, § 3214(e)(1), Mar. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 373.)\n\nAmendments

2020—Pub. L. 116–136 substituted “Regular Corps or Ready Reserve Corps” for “Regular or Reserve Corps”.

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1981—Pub. L. 97–35 inserted reference to Reserve Corps and substituted provisions relating to appointment of an individual from the Regular Corps and with specialized training and significant experience, for provisions relating to appointment of an individual sixty-four years of age or older.

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Pub. L. 97–25 inserted provision that the President may appoint to office of Surgeon General an individual who is sixty-four years of age or older.

\n\n\nTransfer of Functions\n

Office of Surgeon General abolished by section 3 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, and functions thereof transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by section 1 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, set out as a note under section 202 of this title. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education. Office of Surgeon General reestablished within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, see Notice of Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Mar. 30, 1987, 52 F.R. 11754.

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