[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 399]
[Revised as of October 1, 2000]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR70.4]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
                    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE,
                        DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
                             HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 70--INTERSTATE QUARANTINE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 70.4  Report of disease.

    The master of any vessel or person in charge of any conveyance 
engaged in interstate traffic, on which a case or suspected case of a 
communicable disease develops shall, as soon as practicable, notify the 
local health authority at the next port of call, station, or stop, and 
shall take such measures to prevent the spread of the disease as the 
local health authority directs.