---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 272"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "272"
heading: "Administration of oaths by quarantine officers"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/272"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part G — Quarantine and Inspection"
---

# §272. Administration of oaths by quarantine officers


Medical officers of the [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k), when performing duties as quarantine officers at any port or place within the [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k), are authorized to take [declarations](/usc/42/247d–6e.md?p=e-4) and administer oaths in matters pertaining to the administration of the quarantine laws and [regulations](/usc/42/201.md?p=d) of the [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k).


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 369, 58 Stat. 706.)