42 U.S.C. § 265 — Suspension of entries and imports from designated places to prevent spread of communicable diseases

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The Surgeon General can block entry of people and goods from countries with dangerous diseases. This applies only when the disease risk to the United States is serious. The ban follows rules the President approves and lasts as long as needed.

This section has no lettered subsections. Whenever the Surgeon General determines that a communicable disease in a foreign country creates a serious danger of that disease being brought into the United States, and that allowing people or property from that country to enter would make the danger significantly worse — so much so that the public health requires suspending the right to bring them in — the Surgeon General may, under regulations the President approves, prohibit, in whole or in part, people and property from entering from the countries or places the Surgeon General names. This prohibition lasts for however long the Surgeon General judges necessary to avert the danger.

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Whenever the Surgeon General determines that by reason of the existence of any communicable disease in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of such disease into the United States, and that this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce such persons and property is required in the interest of the public health, the Surgeon General, in accordance with regulations approved by the President, shall have the power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate in order to avert such danger, and for such period of time as he may deem necessary for such purpose.

Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 362, 58 Stat. 704.)

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1944Enacted · Act of July 1, 1944, ch. 373 · 58 Stat. 704

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