---
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"
date: "2026-07-12"
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, when performing duties as quarantine officers at any port or place within the United States, are authorized to take declarations 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.


## Source credit

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