[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR71.32]

[Page 428]
 
                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 71--FOREIGN QUARANTINE--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart D--Health Measures at U.S. Ports: Communicable Diseases
 
Sec. 71.32  Persons, carriers, and things.

    (a) Whenever the Director has reason to believe that any arriving 
person is infected with or has been exposed to any of the communicable 
diseases listed in an Executive Order, as provided under section 361(b) 
of the Public Health Service Act, he/she may isolate, quarantine, or 
place the person under surveillance and may order disinfection or 
disinfestation, fumigation, as he/she considers necessary to prevent the 
introduction, transmission or spread of the listed communicable 
diseases. Executive Order 13295, of April 4, 2003, contains the current 
revised list of quarantinable communicable diseases, and may be obtained 
at http://www.cdc.gov and http://www.archives.gov/federal--register. If 
this Order is amended, HHS will enforce that amended order immediately 
and update this reference.
    (b) Whenever the Director has reason to believe that any arriving 
carrier or article or thing on board the carrier is or may be infected 
or contaminated with a communicable disease, he/she may require 
detention, disinfection, disinfestation, fumigation, or other related 
measures respecting the carrier or article or thing as he/she considers 
necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of 
communicable diseases.

[68 FR 17559, Apr. 10, 2003]