2013 US Code
Title 25 - Indians
Chapter 5 - PROTECTION OF INDIANS (§§ 171 - 202)
Section 198 - Contagious and infectious diseases; quarantine
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 25 - INDIANS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 25 - INDIANS CHAPTER 5 - PROTECTION OF INDIANS Sec. 198 - Contagious and infectious diseases; quarantine |
| Contains | section 198 |
| Date | 2013 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Aug. 1, 1914, ch. 222, §1, 38 Stat. 584. |
| Statutes at Large References | 38 Stat. 584 64 Stat. 1262 |
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Whenever the Secretary of the Interior shall find any Indian afflicted with tuberculosis, trachoma, or other contagious or infectious diseases, he may, if in his judgment the health of the afflicted Indian or that of other persons require it, isolate or quarantine such afflicted Indian in a hospital or other place for treatment. The Secretary of the Interior may employ such means as may be necessary in the isolation, or quarantine, of such Indian, and it shall be the duty of such Indian so afflicted to obey any order or regulation made by the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out this provision.
(Aug. 1, 1914, ch. 222, §1, 38 Stat. 584.)
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONSFor 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.
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