Volume 47 · 818
Public Law 72–92
To amend an Act entitled “An Act extending certain privileges of canal employees to other officials on the Canal Zone and authorizing the President to make rules and regulations affecting health, sanitation, quarantine, taxation, public roads, self-propelled vehicles, and police powers on the Canal Zone, and for other purposes, including provision as to certain fees, money orders, and interest deposits,” approved August 21, 1916.
Approved February 16, 1933
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled “An Act extending certain privileges of canal employees to other officials on the Canal Zone and authorizing the President to make rules and regulations affecting health, sanitation, quarantine, taxation, public roads, self-propelled vehicles, and police powers on the Canal Zone, and for other purposes, including provision as to certain fees, money orders, and interest deposits,” approved August 21, 1916.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of the Act approved August 21, 1916 (ch. 371, 39 Stat. 527), is hereby amended to read as follows: “That, until otherwise provided by Congress, the President is authorized to make rules and regulations in matters of sanitation, health, and quarantine for the Canal Zone or to modify or change existing rules and regulations and those
Proviso.
President may authorize local board of health to issue healing-art licenses.
hereafter made from time to time: Provided, That the President, under such regulations as he may prescribe, may authorize the Board of Health of the Canal Zone to issue licenses to practice the healing art, which regulations shall include conditions under which such
Conditions of issue or revocation.
Punishment for violating regulations.
licenses shall be issued and include provisions for revocation for cause of licenses issued. Violations of any quarantine regulations provided for herein shall be punished by fine not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment in jail not to exceed ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; and a violation of any sanitary or health regulation authorized hereunder shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $25 or by imprisonment in jail not to exceed thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Each day such violation may continue shall constitute a separate offense.”
Approved, February 16, 1933.s