§ 700.763 - Quarantine.

(a) The commanding officer or aircraft commander of a ship or aircraft shall comply with all quarantine regulations and restrictions, United States or foreign, for the port or area within which his ship or aircraft is located.

(b) Whether or not liable to quarantine, the commanding officer shall afford every facility to visiting health officers, United States or foreign, and shall give all information required by the latter, insofar as permitted by the requirements of military security.

(c) The commanding officer shall allow no intercourse with a port or area or with other ships or aircraft until he has consulted local health authorities when:

(1) Doubt exists as to the sanitary regulations or health conditions of the port or area.

(2) A quarantine condition exists aboard his ship or aircraft.

(3) Coming from a suspected port or area, or one actually under quarantine.

(d) No concealment shall be made of any circumstance that may subject a ship or aircraft of the Navy to quarantine.

(e) Should there appear at any time on board a ship or aircraft conditions which present a hazard of introduction of a communicable disease outside the ship or aircraft, the commanding officer or aircraft commander shall at once report the fact to the senior officer present, to other appropriate higher authorities and, if in port, to the health authorities having quarantine jurisdiction. He shall prevent all contracts likely to spread disease until pratique is received. The commanding officer of a ship in port shall hoist the appropriate signal.