Posted on 10/29/2014 10:47:10 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264(b)), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the "Secretary"), in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose of specifying certain communicable diseases for regulations providing for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases, the following communicable diseases are hereby specified pursuant to section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act:
(a) Cholera; Diphtheria; infectious Tuberculosis; Plague; Smallpox; Yellow Fever; and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South American, and others not yet isolated or named).
(b) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which is a disease associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, is transmitted from person to person predominantly by the aerosolized or droplet route, and, if spread in the population, would have severe public health consequences.
Sec. 2. The Secretary, in the Secretary's discretion, shall determine whether a particular condition constitutes a communicable disease of the type specified in section 1 of this order.
Sec. 3. The functions of the President under sections 362 and 364(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 265 and 267(a)) are assigned to the Secretary.
Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit enforceable at law or equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
Sec. 5. Executive Order 12452 of December 22, 1983, is hereby revoked.
George W. Bush
The White House,
April 4, 2003.
§265. Suspension of entries and imports from designated places to prevent spread of communicable diseases Whenever the Surgeon General determines that by reason of the existence of any communicable disease in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of such disease into the United States, and that this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce such persons and property is required in the interest of the public health, the Surgeon General, in accordance with regulations approved by the President, shall have the power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate in order to avert such danger, and for such period of time as he may deem necessary for such purpose. (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, §362, 58 Stat. 704.)
Nice find. Good job!
This is how responsible adults behave, unlike the JV team we now have.
BTTT.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Links:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/265?qt-us_code_temp_noupdates=0#qt-us_code_temp_noupdates
In force, too. (not repealed or modified)
That used to mean something when we were a Nation of Laws not men or boys pretending to be so!
there was a new executive order July 31, 2014
You can see it on this site without going to white house.gov
They are more like a wiffle ball team.
The more people who "may have been exposed" to Ebola, the more Obama has complete control over.
To begin with, he was hoping for the whole state of Texas, but his plans didn't work out.
United States Federal Laws and Regulations for Control of Communicable Diseases
http://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/specificlawsregulations.html
Thanks for the ping!
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