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[CITE: 42USC97]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                  CHAPTER 2--SANITATION AND QUARANTINE
 
Sec. 97. State health laws observed by United States officers

    The quarantines and other restraints established by the health laws 
of any State, respecting any vessels arriving in, or bound to, any port 
or district thereof, shall be duly observed by the officers of the 
customs revenue of the United States, by the masters and crews of the 
several Coast Guard vessels, and by the military officers commanding in 
any fort or station upon the seacoast; and all such officers of the 
United States shall faithfully aid in the execution of such quarantines 
and health laws, according to their respective powers and within their 
respective precincts, and as they shall be directed, from time to time, 
by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. But nothing in title 58 
of the Revised Statutes shall enable any State to collect a duty of 
tonnage or impost without the consent of Congress.

(R.S. Sec. 4792; Jan. 28, 1915, ch. 20, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 800; 1939 
Reorg. Plan No. I, Sec. 201, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2728, 53 Stat. 
1424; Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, Secs. 1, 20, 63 Stat. 496, 561; 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.)

                       References in Text

    Title 58 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in text, was in the 
original ``this Title'' meaning title 58 of the Revised Statutes, 
consisting of R.S. Secs. 4792 to 4800, which were classified to sections 
88 to 91, 97, and 112 to 114 of this title and section 8 of former Title 
4, Flag and Seal, Seat of Government, and the States. Such section 8 of 
former Title 4 was repealed by act July 30, 1947, ch. 389, Sec. 2, 61 
Stat. 645, and reenacted by the first section thereof as section 73 of 
Title 4. For complete classification of R.S. Secs. 4792 to 4800 to the 
Code, see Tables.

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 4792 derived from act Feb. 23, 1799, ch. 12, Sec. 1, 1 
Stat. 619.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Coast Guard vessels'' substituted in text for ``revenue-cutters'', 
Revenue Cutter Service and Life-Saving Service having been combined to 
form Coast Guard by section 1 of act Jan. 28, 1915. That act was 
repealed by section 20 of act Aug. 4, 1949, section 1 of which 
reestablished the Coast Guard by enacting Title 14, Coast Guard.
    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.
