TITLE 15-COMMERCE AND TRADE Chapter 14A-Aid to Small Business § 631. Declaration of policy. (a) The essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free competition. Only through full and free competition can free markets, free entry into business, and opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment be assured ***. It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist and protect insofar as is possible the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for property and services for the Government be placed with small business enterprises, to insure that a fair proportion of the total sales of Government property be made to such enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation. (b) Further, it is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid and assist victims of floods and other catastrophes. ADMINISTRATIVE MANUAL PROVISIONS Assistance-Physically Handicapped Persons 600. Purpose. Statement of business. policy: Small Small Business employers of The purpose of this chapter is to emphasize the desirability of assist- Assistance to ing firms and organizations employing predominantly physically handicapped. handicapped workers. These include: 600.01 Competitive Firms. Those operating for a profit which employ fifty percent or more physically handicapped workers. 600.02 Certified Sheltered Workshops. These are generally operated on a nonprofit basis by voluntary organizations receiving some support from charitable institutions. They are exempt from minimum wage requirements since many are primarily engaged in training and rehabilitating physically handicapped workers. 601. Procedure. 601.01 Five copies of a list of the "Firms and Organizations Employing Predominantly Physically Handicapped Persons" located in its area are being forwarded to each regional office. Copies will not be sent to other manual holders. 601.02 Many of these firms and organizations will learn of SBA programs through Government publications concerned with vocational rehabilitation and may come to this agency for assistance. In addition to giving every consideration to those which contact SBA, calls may be made to others if and when SBA staff employees visit localities in which they are located. 601.03 Although many of the organizations listed do not meet eligibility standards for loans established by the Loan Policy Board, regional office personnel should, wherever possible, lend assistance in working out financial problems which may be encountered. TITLE 16—CONSERVATION Chapter 1-The National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and National Park Service: Medical service for employees. Same: At isolated places. Forest Service: Same: Medical services in isolated areas. Same Injury benefits to temporary employees. § 11. Medical attention for employees. The Secretary of the Interior in his administration of the National Park Service is authorized to contract for medical attention and service for employees and to make necessary pay-roll deductions agreed to by the employees therefor. § 13. Medical attention to employees at isolated places; removal of bodies for burial. [See 16 U.S.C. 13.] Chapter 3-Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management * * * * § 554b. Medical care for employees engaged in hazardous work. [See 16 U.S.C. 554b.] § 557. Employees of Forest Service; subsistence furnished to; 78 TITLE 18-CRIMINAL CODE AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Chapter 307-Employment § 4126. Prison industries fund: Use and settlement of accounts. Prison industries: [See 18 U.S.C. 4126.] DEPARTMENT REGULATIONS Federal Prison Industries, Department of Justice INMATE ACCIDENT COMPENSATION § 1.1 Non-Compensable Injuries. (a) Injuries sustained by inmate employees not resulting in permanent or temporary disability after release from the institution are not compensable under these regulations as normal earnings are paid to the inmates while incapacitated and remaining in the institution. (11) (b) Injuries sustained by inmates willfully or with intent to injure someone else, or sustained outside the industrial area are not compensable. Continued disregard of safety rules or instructions, or continued failure to use safety clothing and equipment may prevent award of compensation. (10) §1.2 Compensable Injuries. Accident compensation will be paid to injured inmate employees who are totally or partially disabled when discharged from the institution provided the injury is compensable under these regulations. (12) $ 1.3 Establishing the Amount of the Award. In determining the amount of accident compensation to be paid consideration will be given to the permanency and severity of the injury and its resulting effect on the earning capacity of inmate in connection with employment, after release. (13) § 1.4 Time and Method of Payment of Compensation Claim. Upon determination of the amount of compensation to be paid a copy of the award will be furnished the claimant and monthly payments will begin about the 10th day of the first month following the month in which the award is effective. The first payment is usually within 45 days of release from institutions. Payments shall be made through the office of the United States Probation Officer of the district in which the claimant resides. Lump sum payments will be made only in exceptional cases where it is clearly shown to be beneficial and necessary for the support of the claimant or dependents. (14) § 1.5. When requested by the claimant and approved by the Corporation, accident compensation may be paid direct to dependents of the claimant. In all cases claimant must indicate in detail those persons who are dependent on him, their relationship and all facts as to residence, other income, etc., so that the Corporation will be able to determine to what extent they are dependent on the claimant. (15) §1.6 Compensation Suspended by Misconduct. Awarded compensation shall be paid only so long as the claimant conducts himself or herself in a lawful manner and shall be immediately suspended upon conviciton of any crime, or upon incarceration in any jail, correctional, or penal institution. However, the Corporation may pay such compensation or any part of it to the inmate or any dependents of such inmate where it is deemed to be in public interest. (16) §1.7 Medical Treatment Required Following Discharge. If medical or hospital treatment is required subsequent to discharge from the Compensation to injured inmates. Department Prison Industries. Care for mental patients in Federal prisons. Disposition upon release. institution, for any injury sustained while employed by Federal Prison Industries, Inc., claimant should advise the Commissioner of Industries and if the cost of such treatment is allowed by the corporation advice to this effect and instructions for obtaining such service will be forwarded. The corporation will under no circumstances pay the most of medical or hospital treatment not previously authorized by it. (17) §1.8 Civilian Compensation Laws Distinguished. Compensation awarded hereunder differs from awards made under civilian workmen's compensation laws in that hospitalization is usually completed prior to the inmates release from the institution and, except for a three day waiting period, the inmate receives his regular earnings while absent from work. Other factors necessarily must be considered that do not enter into the administration of civilian workmen's compensation laws. (18) §1.9 Employment of Attorneys. It is not necessary that claimants employ attorneys or others to effect collection of their claims, and under no circumstances will the assignment of any claim be recognized. (19) 18 U.S. CODE Chapter 313.-Mental Defectives § 4241. Examination and transfer to hospital. A board of examiners for each Federal penal and correctional institution shall consist of (1) a medical officer appointed by the warden or superintendent of the institution; (2) a medical officer appointed by the Attorney General; and (3) a competent expert in mental diseases appointed by the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. Such board shall examine any inmate of the institution alleged to be insane or of unsound mind or otherwise defective and report their findings and the facts on which they are based to the Attorney General. The Attorney General, upon receiving such report, may direct the warden or superintendent or other official having custody of the prisoner to cause such prisoner to be removed to the United States hospital for defective delinquents or to any other institution authorized by law to receive insane persons charged with or convicted of offenses against the United States, there to be kept until, in the judgment of the superintendent of said hospital, the prisoner shall be restored to sanity or health or until the maximum sentence, without deduction for good time or commutation of sentence, shall have been served. § 4242. Retransfer upon recovery. An inmate of the United States hospital for defective delinquents whose sanity or health is restored prior to the expiration of his sentence may be retransferred to any penal or correctional institution designated by the Attorney General, there to remain pursuant to the original sentence, computing the time of his detention or confinement is said hospital as part of the term of his imprisonment. § 4243. Delivery to State authorities on expiration of sentence. The superintendent of the United States hospital for defective delinquents shall notify the proper authorities of the State, Territory, District, or Possession where any insane prisoner has his legal residence, or, if this cannot be ascertained, the proper authorities of the State, Territory, District, or Possession from which he was committed, of the date of expiration of sentence of any prisoner who, in the judg ment of such superintendent, is still insane or a menace to the public. Such superintendent shall cause such prisoner to be delivered into the custody of the proper authorities of such State, Territory, District or Possession. § 4244. Mental incompetency after arrest and before trial. [See 18 U.S.C. 4244.] § 4245. Mental incompetency undisclosed at trial. [See 18 U.S.C. 4245.] § 4246. Procedure upon finding of mental incompetency. [See 18 U.S.C. 4246.] § 4247. Alternate procedure on expiration of sentence. [See 18 U.S.C. 4247.] Psychiatric examination prior to trial. New trial if incompetency undisclosed. Commitment of incompetent to Attorney General. PAR. 1630. Books and pamphlets printed wholly or chiefly in languages other than English; books, pamphlets, and music, in raised print, used exclusively by or for the blind; Braille tablets, cubarithms, special apparatus and objects serving to teach the blind, including printing apparatus, machines, presses, and types for the use and benefit of the blind exclusively. PAR. 1631. (a) Any society or institution incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States, or any State or public library, may import free of duty any book, map, music, sound recordings, slides and transparencies, engraving, photograph, etching, lithographic print, or chart, for its own use or for the encouragement of the fine arts, and not for sale, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Exemption from customs duties of materials for the blind. |