Title 25, IndiansRelease 119-102
§198 Contagious and Infectious Diseases; Quarantine
Title 25 › CHAPTER 5 — PROTECTION OF INDIANS › § 198
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior can isolate or quarantine any Indian with tuberculosis, trachoma, or another contagious disease to protect their health or others'. He may place them in a hospital or use necessary measures, and the person must obey.
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Title 25, §198
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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.
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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, §§ 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.
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25 U.S.C. § 198
Title 25, Indians
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102