8 U.S.C. § 1285 : US Code - Section 1285: Employment on passenger vessels of aliens afflicted with certain disabilities

Search 8 U.S.C. § 1285 : US Code - Section 1285: Employment on passenger vessels of aliens afflicted with certain disabilities

It shall be unlawful for any vessel or aircraft carrying
passengers between a port of the United States and a port outside
thereof to have employed on board upon arrival in the United States
any alien afflicted with feeble-mindedness, insanity, epilepsy,
tuberculosis in any form, leprosy, or any dangerous contagious
disease. If it appears to the satisfaction of the Attorney General,
from an examination made by a medical officer of the United States
Public Health Service, and is so certified by such officer, that
any such alien was so afflicted at the time he was shipped or
engaged and taken on board such vessel or aircraft and that the
existence of such affliction might have been detected by means of a
competent medical examination at such time, the owner, commanding
officer, agent, consignee, or master thereof shall pay for each
alien so afflicted to the Commissioner the sum of $1,000. No vessel
or aircraft shall be granted clearance pending the determination of
the question of the liability to the payment of such sums, or while
such sums remain unpaid, except that clearance may be granted prior
to the determination of such question upon the deposit of an amount
sufficient to cover such sums or of a bond approved by the
Commissioner with sufficient surety to secure the payment thereof.
Any such fine may, in the discretion of the Attorney General, be
mitigated or remitted.