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[CITE: 8USC1285]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
          Part VI--Special Provisions Relating to Alien Crewmen
 
Sec. 1285. Employment on passenger vessels of aliens afflicted 
        with certain disabilities
        
    It shall be unlawful for any vessel or aircraft carrying passengers 
between a port of the United States and a port outside thereof to have 
employed on board upon arrival in the United States any alien afflicted 
with feeble-mindedness, insanity, epilepsy, tuberculosis in any form, 
leprosy, or any dangerous contagious disease. If it appears to the 
satisfaction of the Attorney General, from an examination made by a 
medical officer of the United States Public Health Service, and is so 
certified by such officer, that any such alien was so afflicted at the 
time he was shipped or engaged and taken on board such vessel or 
aircraft and that the existence of such affliction might have been 
detected by means of a competent medical examination at such time, the 
owner, commanding officer, agent, consignee, or master thereof shall pay 
for each alien so afflicted to the Commissioner the sum of $1,000. No 
vessel or aircraft shall be granted clearance pending the determination 
of the question of the liability to the payment of such sums, or while 
such sums remain unpaid, except that clearance may be granted prior to 
the determination of such question upon the deposit of an amount 
sufficient to cover such sums or of a bond approved by the Commissioner 
with sufficient surety to secure the payment thereof. Any such fine may, 
in the discretion of the Attorney General, be mitigated or remitted.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 6, Sec. 255, 66 Stat. 222; Pub. 
L. 101-649, title V, Sec. 543(a)(5), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 5058.)


                               Amendments

    1990--Pub. L. 101-649 substituted ``Commissioner the sum of $1,000'' 
for ``collector of customs of the customs district in which the port of 
arrival is located the sum of $50'' in second sentence, and 
``Commissioner'' for ``collector of customs'' in third sentence.


                    Effective Date of 1990 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 101-649 applicable to actions taken after Nov. 
29, 1990, see section 543(c) of Pub. L. 101-649, set out as a note under 
section 1221 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1283, 1330 of this title.
