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[CITE: 42USC98]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                  CHAPTER 2--SANITATION AND QUARANTINE
 
Sec. 98. Vessels for quarantine officers

    The Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in his discretion, at the 
request of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to place 
gratuitously, at the disposal of the proper quarantine authorities, at 
any of the ports of the United States, to be used temporarily for 
quarantine purposes, such vessels or hulks belonging to the United 
States as are not required for other uses of the national government, 
subject to such restrictions and regulations as the Secretary of the 
Navy may deem necessary to impose for the preservation thereof.

(June 14, 1879, No. 6, 21 Stat. 50; Feb. 15, 1893, ch. 114, 27 Stat. 
449; July 1, 1902, ch. 1370, Sec. 1, 32 Stat. 712; Aug. 14, 1912, ch. 
288, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 309; 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.)


                                 Repeals

    Act Feb. 15, 1893, ch. 114, 27 Stat. 449, cited as a credit to this 
section and which abolished the National Board of Health and placed all 
duties relating to quarantines and quarantine regulations with the 
Marine Hospital Service, was repealed by act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, 
title XIII, Sec. 1313, formerly Sec. 611, 58 Stat. 714, renumbered 
Sec. 711 by act Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 958, Sec. 5, 60 Stat. 1049; Sec. 713 
by act Feb. 28, 1948, ch. 83, Sec. 9(b), 62 Stat. 47; Sec. 813 by act 
July 30, 1956, ch. 779, Sec. 3(b), 70 Stat. 720; Sec. 913 by Pub. L. 88-
581, Sec. 4(b), Sept. 4, 1964, 78 Stat. 919; Sec. 1013 by Pub. L. 89-
239, Sec. 3(b), Oct. 6, 1965, 79 Stat. 931; Sec. 1113 by Pub. L. 91-572, 
Sec. 6(b), Dec 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1506; Sec. 1213 by Pub. L. 92-294, 
Sec. 3(b), May 16, 1972, 86 Stat. 137; Sec. 1313 by Pub. L. 93-154, 
Sec. 2(b)(2), Nov. 16, 1973, 87 Stat. 604.

                          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.
    Public Health Service and its functions and personnel transferred 
from Department of the Treasury to Federal Security Agency pursuant to 
Reorg. Plan No. I of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees.
    Marine Hospital Service was redesignated Public Health and Marine 
Hospital Service by act July 1, 1902, ch. 1370, Sec. 1, 32 Stat. 712, 
which in turn was redesignated Public Health Service by act Aug. 14, 
1912, ch. 288, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 309.
    National Board of Health was abolished and all duties relating to 
quarantines and quarantine regulations were placed in Marine Hospital 
Service by act Feb. 15, 1893, ch. 114, 27 Stat. 449.
