[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 5, Parts 700 to 799]
[Revised as of  July 1, 1998]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR700.763]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                   CHAPTER VI--DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
 
PART 700--UNITED STATES NAVY REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart G--The Commanding Officer
 
Sec. 700.763  Quarantine.

    (a) The commanding officer or aircraft commander of a ship or 
aircraft shall comply with all quarantine regulations and restrictions, 
United States or foreign, for the port or area within which his ship or 
aircraft is located.
    (b) Whether or not liable to quarantine, the commanding officer 
shall afford every facility to visiting health officers, United States 
or foreign, and shall give all information required by the latter, 
insofar as permitted by the requirements of military security.
    (c) The commanding officer shall allow no intercourse with a port or 
area or with other ships or aircraft until he has consulted local health 
authorities when:
    (1) Doubt exists as to the sanitary regulations or health conditions 
of the port or area.
    (2) A quarantine condition exists aboard his ship or aircraft.
    (3) Coming from a suspected port or area, or one actually under 
quarantine.
    (d) No concealment shall be made of any circumstance that may 
subject a ship or aircraft of the Navy to quarantine.
    (e) Should there appear at any time on board a ship or aircraft 
conditions which present a hazard of introduction of a communicable 
disease outside the ship or aircraft, the commanding officer or aircraft 
commander shall at once report the fact to the senior officer present, 
to other appropriate higher authorities and, if in port, to the health 
authorities having quarantine jurisdiction. He shall prevent all 
contracts likely to spread disease until pratique is received. The 
commanding officer of a ship in port shall hoist the appropriate signal.