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PART 300-AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS AND INFORMATION

Sec.

300.1 Availability of official records. 800.2

Disclosure of information.

§ 300.1 Availability of official records. The principal official records of the Hospital are administrative and clinical records. All clinical records are confidential. No records or other official instruments containing information shall be withdrawn from the files of the Hospital by, or furnished to, any person not an authorized employee of the Hospital, without prior authority of the Hospital Superintendent, or the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. (R.S. 161; 5 U.S.C. 301) [13 F.R. 7742, Dec. 15, 1948]

§ 300.2 Disclosure of information.

No copy of, or information relative to, any official record or other official business of the Hospital, which appears to be of confidential nature, shall be given to any person unless:

(a) Such person obtains a court order therefor, or makes application therefor in the manner prescribed in paragraph (b) of this section.

Sec.

301.12 Disposition of balance of fund in case of discharge or death.

301.13 Question affecting the rights of claimants for share of pension of

inmates.

301.14 Table of monthly division of rates of pension made part of regulations. AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 301 issued under R.S. 4839, as amended; 24 U.S.C. 165.

SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 301 appear at 2 FR. 1623, Aug. 3, 1937, unless otherwise noted.

§ 301.1

Deposit of money in Treasury. All moneys received by the Superintendent under the acts of February 20, 1905 (33 Stat. 731; 24 U.S.C. 195, 165), and February 2, 1909 (35 Stat. 592; 24 U.S.C. 165), shall be scheduled to the Chief Disbursing Officer, Division of Disbursements, Treasury Department, for deposit in the United States Treasury. § 301.2 Keeping accounts of money.

Separate accounts shall be kept by the Superintendent with each pensioner showing the amount of money received and expended, and the balance on hand. § 301.3 Purposes for which money shall be disbursed.

The pension money shall be disbursed and used for three general purposes, in order as follows:

(a) For the benefit of the pensioner. (b) For the benefit of relatives entitled under the law.

(c) To reimburse the Hospital for the pensioner's board and maintenance, where no other provision is made therefor.

§ 301.4 Part of funds reserved for use of pensioner.

Irrespective of the amount received as pension and placed to the pensioner's account, at least one-sixth thereof shall be reserved for the use of the pensioner, before any provision is made for payments to relatives or for board.

§ 301.5 Payment of board to St. Elizabeths Hospital.

Where no provision is otherwise made for the payment of the pensioner's board and maintenance in the Hospital from public or special funds under Federal control, the remainder, after setting aside the amounts for relatives specified in §§ 301.7–301.10, shall be used to pay for the pensioner's board and maintenance in the Hospital up to an amount equal

to the current monthly rate for board of patients.

§ 301.6 Use of unobligated balance of funds.

Any excess amounts not required for payments to relatives or for board shall be available for the purchase of such articles as may be required for the pensioner's welfare and which are not provided from the regular Hospital funds, or otherwise for the pensioner's benefit.

§ 301.7 Disposition of funds not ceeding $15 per month.

The basic rate of pension being $15 or less per month, one-sixth thereof shall be reserved for the pensioner, to be expended in the purchase of such articles as may be required for the pensioner's welfare and which are not provided from the regular Hospial funds, or otherwise for the pensioner's benefit. The entire remainder will be paid, in the case of a male pensioner, to his dependent wife, minor children, or parents, in the order named; in the case of a female pensioner, to her dependent minor children. § 301.8 Disposition of funds greater than $15, and not exceeding $25, per month.

The basic rate of pension being greater that $15 but not exceeding $25 per month, the dependent wife, minor children, or parents, in the order named in the case of a male pensioner, or the dependent minor children, in the case of a female pensioner, shall receive not less than $12.50 per month, the balance to be reserved for the pensioner, to be expended in the purchase of such articles as may be required for the pensioner's welfare and which are not provided from the regular Hospital funds, or otherwise for the pensioner's benefit, subject to provis on for payment of board.

§ 301.9 Disposition of funds in excess of $25 per month.

The basic rate of pension being in excess of $25 per month, the dependent wife, minor children, or parents, in the order named in the case of a male pensioner, or the dependent minor children in the case of a female pensioner, shall receive an amount equal to one-half of the entire pension, the balance to be reserved for the pensioner, to be expended in the purchase of such articles as may be required for the pensioner's welfare

and which are not provided from the regular Hospital funds, or otherwise for the pensioner's benefit, subject to provision for payment of board.

§ 301.10 Amount available for disbursement to a nondependent relative.

If the wife, minor children, or parents of a male pensioner, or the minor children of a female pensioner, be not in fact dependent upon the pensioner in any degree for support, she or they shall receive no greater than one-half of the amount payable in case of her or their dependence, the balance to be reserved for the pensioner, to be expended in the purchase of such articles as may be required for the pensioner's welfare and which are not provided from regular Hospital funds, or otherwise for the pensioner's benefit, subject to provision for payment of board.

§ 301.11

Use of fund where there are no relatives of certain classes.

If there be no wife, minor children, or parents, in the case of a male pensioner, or minor children in the case of a female pensioner, the entire amount of the pension shall be reserved for the pensioner, to be expended in the purchase of such articles as may be required for the pensioner's welfare and which are not provided from the regular Hospital funds, or otherwise for the pensioner's benefit, subject to provision for payment of board.

§ 301.12 Disposition of balance of fund in case of discharge or death. Any unexpended balance of pension money reserved for the pensioner's benefit shall be paid, in the event of the pensioner's discharge from the Hospital, to the pensioner, or to his or her lawful guardian, or in the event that the pensioner is returned to a branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (now a part of the Veterans Administration), to the treasurer or fiscal officer of such branch for such pensioner, or in the event of the pensioner's discharge from the Hospital and his immediate transfer to the United States Soldiers' Home, to the treasurer of said home. In the event of the pensioner's death while an inmate of the Hospital, the same shall be paid, in the case of a male pensioner, to his widow, or if there be no widow, to his minor children, and in the case of a female pensioner, to her minor children. If there be no widow or

minor children entitled to payment of such balance of pension money, it shall be applied to the general uses of the Hospital.

§ 301.13 Questions affecting the rights of claimants for share of pension of inmates.

All questions affecting the right of claimants for a share of the pension of inmates of the Hospital shall be determined upon evidence to be submitted to the United States Veterans Administration. The findings of the United States Veterans Administration upon such evidence shall be submitted for the approval of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and upon their transmission to the Superintendent of the Hospital with such approval, shall be accepted by him to control the disbursement of the pension under the law and the regulations in this part.

§ 301.14 Table of monthly division of rates of pension made part of regulations.

The following "Table of monthly division of rates of pension under the acts TABLE OF MONTHLY DIVISION OF RATES OF PENSION UNDER THE ACTS OF FEBRUARY 20, 1905, AND FEBRUARY 2, 1909

of February 20, 1905, and February 2, 1909," is hereby made a part of the regulations in this part to serve as a guide in determining in each case the respective amounts to be reserved for the pensioner's benefit and to be paid to relatives entitled. Any unusual rates of pension not included will be divided as nearly as may be in the same proportions as therein observed.

PART 302-HANDLING OF PERSONAL FUNDS OF PATIENTS

Sec.

802.1 Accounting for moneys intrusted to the hospital.

802.2 Accounts open to inspection of proper officials.

302.3 Financial Officer shall deposit funds in the United States Treasury. 802.4 Financial Officer authorized to draw funds and make cash payments to patients.

802.5 Report of actions to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. 802.6 Disbursing of trust funds to patients. AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 802 issued under R.S. 4839, as amended; 24 U.S.C. 165.

SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 802 contained in Regulations, May 1, 1909, unless otherwise noted.

§ 302.1 Accounting for moneys trusted to the hospital.

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Officer, not later than at the end of each month, all funds now in hand or which may hereafter be intrusted to the Financial Officer by or for the use of such patients, of which an account shall be kept separate and apart from moneys received on account of pensions, and whose bond in that capacity shall include the faithful custody and disbursement of all funds so received.

§ 302.4 Financial Officer authorized to draw funds and make cash payments to patients.

The Financial Officer is authorized to draw therefrom in the usual manner, from time to time, and to make cash payments upon voucher forms approved by the accounting officers of the Treasury for the use of such patients, not to exceed for any one patient the amount intrusted to the Superintendent on account of such patients.

§ 302.5 Report of actions to the Secre tary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

The Financial Officer shall, on or before the fifteenth of each month following the quarter for which accounts are rendered, forward to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for transmission to the General Accounting Office a duplicate of the patients' accounts.

§ 302.6 Disbursing of trust funds to patients.

The Financial Officer may, subject to the limitations of the law, draw, as Financial Officer, such sums as in the judgment of the Financial Officer may be necessary for the use of individual patients.