§ 198. — Contagious and infectious diseases; quarantine.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 25USC198]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 5--PROTECTION OF INDIANS
Sec. 198. Contagious and infectious diseases; quarantine
Whenever the Secretary of the Interior shall find any Indian
afflicted with tuberculosis, trachoma, or other contagious or infectious
diseases, he may, if in his judgment the health of the afflicted Indian
or that of other persons require it, isolate or quarantine such
afflicted Indian in a hospital or other place for treatment. The
Secretary of the Interior may employ such means as may be necessary in
the isolation, or quarantine, of such Indian, and it shall be the duty
of such Indian so afflicted to obey any order or regulation made by the
Secretary of the Interior in carrying out this provision.
(Aug. 1, 1914, ch. 222, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 584.)
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
