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[CITE: 42USC265]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
                    Part G--Quarantine and Inspection
 
Sec. 265. Suspension of entries and imports from designated 
        places to prevent spread of communicable diseases
        
    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.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, Sec. 362, 58 Stat. 704.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Office of Surgeon General abolished by section 3 of Reorg. Plan No. 
3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, and 
functions thereof transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and 
Welfare by section 1 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, set out as a note 
under section 202 of this title. Secretary of Health, Education, and 
Welfare redesignated Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 
509(b) of Pub. L. 96-88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 
20, Education.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 271 of this title.
