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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part G · Chapter 6A — Public Health Service

§ 272. Administration of oaths by quarantine officers

Statutory text

Medical officers of the United States, when performing duties as quarantine officers at any port or place within the United States, are authorized to take declarations and administer oaths in matters pertaining to the administration of the quarantine laws and regulations of the United States.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 78–373 · 58 Stat. 682

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 272

    (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 369, 58 Stat. 706.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 369, 58 Stat. 706.)

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Credits

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 369, 58 Stat. 706.)

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