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[CITE: 8USC1283]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
          Part VI--Special Provisions Relating to Alien Crewmen
 
Sec. 1283. Hospital treatment of alien crewmen afflicted with 
        certain diseases
        
    An alien crewman, including an alien crewman ineligible for a 
conditional permit to land under section 1282(a) of this title, who is 
found on arrival in a port of the United States to be afflicted with any 
of the disabilities or diseases mentioned in section 1285 of this title, 
shall be placed in a hospital designated by the immigration officer in 
charge at the port of arrival and treated, all expenses connected 
therewith, including burial in the event of death, to be borne by the 
owner, agent, consignee, commanding officer, or master of the vessel or 
aircraft, and not to be deducted from the crewman's wages. No such 
vessel or aircraft shall be granted clearance until such expenses are 
paid, or their payment appropriately guaranteed, and the collector of 
customs is so notified by the immigration officer in charge. An alien 
crewman suspected of being afflicted with any such disability or disease 
may be removed from the vessel or aircraft on which he arrived to an 
immigration station, or other appropriate place, for such observation as 
will enable the examining surgeons to determine definitely whether or 
not he is so afflicted, all expenses connected therewith to be borne in 
the manner hereinbefore prescribed. In cases in which it appears to the 
satisfaction of the immigration officer in charge that it will not be 
possible within a reasonable time to effect a cure, the return of the 
alien crewman shall be enforced on, or at the expense of, the 
transportation line on which he came, upon such conditions as the 
Attorney General shall prescribe, to insure that the alien shall be 
properly cared for and protected, and that the spread of contagion shall 
be guarded against.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 6, Sec. 253, 66 Stat. 221.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1282, 1284, 1330 of this 
title.
