Executive Order 9501—Regulations Governing Recall to Active Duty of Retired Commissioned Officers of the Public Health Service

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 211 (d) of the Public Health Service Act, approved July 1, 1944 (58 Stat. 682), I hereby prescribe the following regulations governing the recall to active duty of retired commissioned officers of the Public Health Service:

1. The Surgeon General may order (a) any commissioned officer of the Regular Corps who now is or may hereafter be retired for disability from disease or injury incurred in line of duty, or (b) any commissioned officer of the Reserve Corps who now is or may hereafter be retired for disability from disease or injury incurred in line of duty during time of war, to present himself for physical examination to a Board of Medical examiners, and may order to active duty any such officer who is found to have recovered from such disability.

2. In time of war the Surgeon General may order any commissioned officer of the Service retired for age to present himself for physical examination to a Board of Medical examiners, and may order to active duty any such officer found physically capable of performing the duties to which he may be assigned: Provided, That the tour of duty of any officer so recalled shall not extend beyond the last day of the sixth month following the termination of the state of war.

3. For the purposes of this order, the term \"retired officers\" shall include officers placed on permanent \"waiting orders.\"

4. Service by officers after recall to active duty shall be deemed active commissioned service within the meaning of section 211 (c) (1) of the Public Health Service Act.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
November 21, 1944.