§ 5501.
The Secretary may incur necessary court costs and other expenses incident to proceedings for the commitment of mentally incompetent veterans to a Department hospital or domiciliary when necessary for treatment or domiciliary purposes.
([Pub. L. 85–857], Sept. 2, 1958, [72 Stat. 1232], § 3201; renumbered § 5501, [Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1)], May 7, 1991, [105 Stat. 238]; amended [Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(a)(3)], (4), (b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, [105 Stat. 404], 405.)