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[CITE: 42USC88]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                  CHAPTER 2--SANITATION AND QUARANTINE
 
Sec. 88. Discharge of cargo of vessel in quarantine

    Whenever, by the health laws of any State, or by the regulations 
made pursuant thereto, any vessel arriving within a collection district 
of such State is prohibited from coming to the port of entry by law 
established for such district, and such health laws require or permit 
the cargo of the vessel to be unladen at some other place within or near 
to such district, the collector, after due report to him of the whole of 
such cargo, may grant his warrant or permit for the unlading and 
discharge thereof, under the care of the surveyor, or of one or more 
inspectors, at some other place where such health laws permit, and upon 
the conditions and restrictions which shall be directed by the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services, or which such collector may, for the time, 
deem expedient for the security of the public revenue.

(R.S. Sec. 4793; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, Sec. 201, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 
F.R. 2728, 53 Stat. 1424; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, Secs. 5, 8, eff. Apr. 
11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; Pub. L. 96-88, title V, 
Sec. 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)

                          Codification

    Words ``or delivery'' after ``port of entry'' which were included in 
this section as originally enacted were omitted as ports of delivery 
were abolished pursuant to the President's Message to Congress on Mar. 
3, 1913, set out in Codification note under section 1 of Title 19, 
Customs Duties.
    R.S. Sec. 4793 derived from act Feb. 23, 1799, ch. 12, Sec. 2, 1 
Stat. 619.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Federal Security Administrator transferred to Secretary 
of Health, Education, and Welfare and all agencies of Federal Security 
Agency transferred to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by 
section 5 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953, set out as a note under section 
3501 of this title. Federal Security Agency and office of Administrator 
abolished by section 8 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953. Secretary and 
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated Secretary and 
Department 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.
    Functions of Department of the Treasury relating to public health 
transferred to Federal Security Agency pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. I of 
1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and 
Employees.


                            Cross References

    Quarantine stations, see section 267 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 90, 91, 97 of this title.
