[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 399]
[Revised as of October 1, 2000]
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[CITE: 42CFR71.31]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
                    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE,
                        DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
                             HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 71--FOREIGN QUARANTINE--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart D--Health Measures at U.S. Ports: Communicable Diseases
 
Sec. 71.31  General provisions.


    (a) Upon arrival at a U.S. port, a carrier will not undergo 
inspection unless the Director determines that a failure to inspect will 
present a threat of introduction of communicable diseases into the 
United States, as may exist when the carrier has on board individual(s) 
reportable in accordance with Sec. 71.21 or meets the circumstances 
described in Sec. 71.42. Carriers not subject to inspection under this 
section will be subject to sanitary inspection under Sec. 71.41 of this 
part.
    (b) The Director may require detention of a carrier until the 
completion of the measures outlined in this part that are necessary to 
prevent the introduction or spread of a communicable disease. The 
Director may issue a controlled free pratique to the carrier stipulating 
what measures are to be met, but such issuance does not prevent the 
periodic boarding of a carrier and the inspection of persons and records 
to verify that the conditions have been met for granting the pratique.