[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 399]
[Revised as of October 1, 2000]
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[CITE: 42CFR70.5]

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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. 70.5  Certain communicable diseases; special requirements.

    The following provisions are applicable with respect to any person 
who is in the communicable period of cholera, plague, smallpox, typhus 
or yellow fever, or who, having been exposed to any such disease, is in 
the incubation period thereof:
    (a) Requirements relating to travelers. (1) No such person shall 
travel from one State or possession to another, or on a conveyance 
engaged in interstate traffic, without a written permit of the Surgeon 
General or his/her authorized representative.
    (2) Application for a permit may be made directly to the Surgeon 
General or to his/her representative authorized to issue permits.
    (3) Upon receipt of an application, the Surgeon General or his/her 
authorized representative shall, taking into consideration the risk of 
introduction, transmission, or spread of the disease from one State or 
possession to another, reject it, or issue a permit that may be 
conditioned upon compliance with such precautionary measures as he/she 
shall prescribe.
    (4) A person to whom a permit has been issued shall retain it in 
his/her possession throughout the course of his/her authorized travel 
and comply with all conditions prescribed therein, including 
presentation of the permit to the operators of conveyances as required 
by its terms.
    (b) Requirements relating to operation of conveyances. (1) The 
operator of any conveyance engaged in interstate traffic shall not 
knowingly:
    (i) Accept for transportation any person who fails to present a 
permit as required by paragraph (a) of this section; or
    (ii) Transport any person in violation of conditions prescribed in 
his/her permit.
    (2) Whenever a person subject to the provisions of this section is 
transported on a conveyance engaged in interstate traffic, the operator 
thereof shall take such measures to prevent the spread of the disease, 
including submission of the conveyance to inspection, disinfection and 
the like, as an officer of the Public Health Service designated by the 
Surgeon General for such purposes deems reasonably necessary and 
directs.