Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73
§112 Removal of revenue officers from port during epidemic
Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 2— - SANITATION AND QUARANTINE › § 112
Summary
If a contagious or epidemic disease makes a port unsafe or inconvenient, the Secretary of the Treasury—or, if absent, the Undersecretary—may move revenue officers to a nearer, safer place in the same collection district. They keep the same powers and duties, and the public must be told promptly.
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Title 42, §112
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Whenever, by the prevalence of any contagious or epidemic disease in or near the place by law established as the port of entry for any collection district, it becomes dangerous or inconvenient for the officers of the revenue employed therein to continue the discharge of their respective offices at such port, the Secretary of the Treasury, or, in his absence, the Undersecretary of the Treasury, may direct the removal of the officers of the revenue from such port to any other more convenient place, within, or as near as may be to, such collection district. And at such place such officers may exercise the same powers, and shall be liable to the same duties, according to existing circumstances, as in the port or district established by law. Public notice of any such removal shall be given as soon as may be.
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Editorial Notes
Codification R.S. 4797 derived from act Feb. 23, 1799, ch. 12, § 4, 1 Stat. 620. Acts
July 31, 1894, and
June 10, 1921, abolished offices of First Comptroller and Comptroller of the Treasury. “Undersecretary of the Treasury” was substituted in text for “the First Comptroller” on authority of act Feb. 17, 1922.
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42 U.S.C. § 112
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73