Chapter 409. To authorize twenty-four-hour quarantine inspection service in certain ports of the United States, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 409.— An Act To authorize twenty-four-hour quarantine inspection service in certain ports of the United States, and for other purposes. March 3, 1931.[[S. 5743](/us/bill/71/s/5743).][[Public, No. 796](/us/pl/71/796).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Act Quarantine inspection service.Vol. 27, p. 449, amended.entitled “An Act granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine Hospital Service,” approved February 15, 1893, as amended, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sections:

" “Sec. 13. The original bills of health required to be obtained in Bills of health.Disposition of.Vol. 27, p. 450.duplicate in foreign ports under the provisions of section 2 of this Act shall be presented to the collector of customs in accordance with the provisions of section 5 of this Act, and the duplicate copies of such bills of health shall be presented to the quarantine officer at the time quarantine inspection is performed by him. 1492 “Sec. 14. Regulations governing hours of service to be established.

The Secretary of the Treasury shall establish by regulation the hours during which quarantine service shall be performed at each quarantine station, and, upon application by any interested party, may establish quarantine inspection during the twenty-four hours of the day, or any fraction thereof, at such quarantine stations Restrictions may be imposed.as, in his judgment, require such extended service; but the Secretary may restrict the performance of quarantine inspection to hours of daylight for such arriving vessels as can not, in his opinion, be Inspection after darkness not required, except in public interest.satisfactorily inspected during hours of darkness.

Nothing herein contained, however, shall be construed to require a vessel upon arriving at the quarantine anchorage to undergo quarantine inspection during the hours of darkness, unless the quarantine officer at such quarantine station shall deem an immediate inspection necessary to Uniformity in regulation not required.protect the public health; nor shall any provision of this Act be construed to require uniformity in the regulations governing the hours during which quarantine inspection may be obtained at the various ports of the United States.

“Sec. 15. Certificates of health.Procurement of, after inspection.Vol. 27, p. 451. The certificate of health required by section 5 of this Act, shall, upon the arrival of any vessel from foreign ports at the anchorage or place established for quarantine inspection purposes in any port or the United States, be procurable at any time within which quarantine services are performed at such station from the quarantine health officer, following satisfactory inspection. “Sec. 16. Schedule of charges.

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to prescribe a schedule of charges for quarantine services rendered To be uniform for all ports.Payment of; statement forwarded.to vessels at each of the national quarantine stations, which charges shall be reasonable and uniform for all ports, including the port of New York. The quarantine officer in each port of entry shall promptly forward to the collector of customs at such port an itemized statement of the quarantine services rendered to each vessel at the prescribed charges, which charges shall be paid to the collector of customs by said vessel prior to clearance or departure from such Accounting for.port.

All such collections shall be accounted for by the collector of customs and shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Vol. 41, p. 875, repealed.“The provisions of the Act of June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 875), relating to the schedule of fees and rates of charges to be adopted and promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury at the New York Quarantine Station are hereby repealed. “Sec. 17. Medical benefits extended to inspectors, etc. Any officer or employee of the Public Health Service on duty at any national quarantine station or on a national quarantine vessel, or detailed tor duty in foreign ports, under the provisions of sections 2 and 5 of this Act, who is suffering from sickness or injury incurred in line of duty, shall be a beneficiary of the Public Health Service and shall be entitled to receive all necessary medical treatment and other benefits authorized to be furnished to beneficiaries.

” " Sec. 2. Sum authorized. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of this amendatory Act. Sec. 3. Contributions from steamship companies. Whenever steamship companies desiring the benefits of such extended quarantine service at any port, shall offer to advance funds in order to permit the immediate institution of such service at such port, the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, Repayment.receive such funds and expend the same for such purpose; and the moneys so contributed shall be repaid by the Secretary, without interest, from any funds appropriated under authority of section 2 of this Act.

Approved, March 3, 1931.

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