16 U.S.C. § 11
Section 11 · Medical attention for employees
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 215 court decisions — leading case Robert W. Otto v. City of Boca Raton, Florida (2020)
Most recently applied in United States v. Matthew Zayas (June 2025)
Cases citing this section usually also cite 13 U.S.C. § 11 · 12 U.S.C. § 11 · 15 U.S.C. § 11
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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.
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Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.