42 U.S.C. § 270 — Quarantine regulations governing civil air navigation and civil aircraft

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The Surgeon General can apply existing quarantine rules to aircraft and air travel. This includes sections 267 through 269 of this title and their regulations, plus penalties for breaking them. The Surgeon General decides how much of this is needed to protect public health.

This section lets the Surgeon General extend quarantine rules to air travel. By regulation, the Surgeon General can apply any part of sections 267 to 269 of this title, and the regulations written under them, to air navigation and aircraft. This includes the penalties and forfeitures those sections and regulations impose for violations. The Surgeon General decides how far to extend these rules and under what conditions, based on what is necessary to protect public health.

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The Surgeon General is authorized to provide by regulations for the application to air navigation and aircraft of any of the provisions of sections 267 to 269 of this title and regulations prescribed thereunder (including penalties and forfeitures for violations of such sections and regulations), to such extent and upon such conditions as he deems necessary for the safeguarding of the public health.

Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 367, 58 Stat. 706.)

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1944Enacted · Act of July 1, 1944, ch. 373 · 58 Stat. 706

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