Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73
§89 Quarantine warehouses; erection
Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 2— - SANITATION AND QUARANTINE › § 89
Summary
The President must buy or build facilities to store goods from ships held under state health quarantine, placed to protect revenue and enforce health laws.
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Title 42, §89
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There shall be purchased or erected, under the orders of the President, suitable warehouses, with wharves and inclosures, where merchandise may be unladen and deposited, from any vessel which shall be subject to a quarantine, or other restraint, pursuant to the health laws of any State, at such convenient places therein as the safety of the public revenue and the observance of such health laws may require.
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Codification R.S. § 4794 derived from act Feb. 23, 1799, ch. 12, § 3, 1 Stat. 620.
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42 U.S.C. § 89
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73