§ 2522. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC2522]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 34--THE PEACE CORPS
Sec. 2522. Definitions
(a) The term ``abroad'' means any area outside the United States.
(b) The term ``United States'' means the several States and the
District of Columbia.
(c) The term ``function'' includes any duty, obligation, right,
power, authority, responsibility, privilege, discretion, activity, and
program.
(d) The term ``health care'' includes all appropriate examinations,
preventive, curative and restorative health and medical care, and
supplementary services when necessary.
(e) For the purposes of this chapter or any other Act, the period of
any individual's service as a volunteer under this chapter shall
include--
(i) except for the purposes of section 2504(f) of this title,
any period of training under section 2507(a) of this title prior to
enrollment as a volunteer under this chapter; and
(ii) the period between enrollment as a volunteer and the
termination of service as such volunteer by the President or by
death or resignation.
(f) The term ``United States Government agency'' includes any
department, board, wholly or partly owned corporation, or
instrumentality, commission, or establishment of the United States
Government.
(g) The word ``transportation'' in sections 2504(b), 2504(m), and
2505(2) of this title includes transportation of not to exceed three
hundred pounds per person of unaccompanied necessary personal and
household effects.
(Pub. L. 87-293, title I, Sec. 26, formerly Sec. 25, Sept. 22, 1961, 75
Stat. 624; Pub. L. 89-572, Sec. 4, Sept. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 765; Pub. L.
91-352, Sec. 8, July 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 465; renumbered Sec. 26, Pub. L.
99-83, title XI, Sec. 1105(a)(1), Aug. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 276.)
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (e), was in the original ``this
Act'', meaning Pub. L. 87-293, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 612, as amended,
known as the Peace Corps Act. For complete classification of this Act to
the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2501 of this title
and Tables.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 26 of Pub. L. 87-293 was renumbered section 27 and
is classified to section 2523 of this title.
Amendments
1970--Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 91-352 inserted reference to section
2504(m) of this title.
1966--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 89-572 struck out territories from
definition of ``United States''.
