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 60 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 870, 871-AUG. 8, 1946 end thereof and inserting a semicolon and the following: "and the Veterans' Emergency Housing Act of 1946." SEC. 303. This Act may be cited as the "First Supplemental Appro- priation Act, 1947". Approved August 8, 1946. [CHAPTER 871] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make regulations to prevent and control the spread of com- municable and preventable diseases", approved August 11, 1939. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make regulations to prevent and control the spread of communicable and preventable disease", approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1408), be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking the period at the end of said section and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the following: "including the authority and power to provide for the isolation, quarantine, and restriction of the movements of persons affected by or believed, upon probable cause, to be affected by com- municable disease and of persons who are or are believed, upon probable cause, to be carriers of communicable disease." SEc. 2. That section 2 of the said Act approved August 11, 1939, be stricken out and in lieu thereof and by way of addition the following sections be inserted: "SEO. 2. The words 'communicable disease' when hereinafter used shall mean such communicable diseases as the Commissioners by regu- lation shall denominate as such. "SEC. 3. Whenever the health officer has probable cause to believe that any person is affected with any communicable disease or is a carrier of communicable disease and that the continuance of such person in the place where he may be is likely to be dangerous to the lives or health of other persons, or that by reason of the noncooperation or carelessness of such person the public health is likely to be endan- gered, the health officer may by written order direct the removal by any designated officer or employee of the Health Department or by any member of the Metropolitan Police force of such person to and the detention of such person in any place or institution in the District of Columbia designated by the Health Officer, or any institution located without the District of Columbia which may be designated by the Health Officer and which is under the supervision of the government of the District of Columbia or any agency thereof. Such officer, employee, or member so designated in such order shall take such person into his custody and shall remove such person to such place or institution as may be designated in such order. Such officer, employee, or member shall immediately make known to such person the contents of such order, and also shall deliver to such person a true copy of such order. "SEC. 4. A copy of the order provided for in section 3 hereof shall be delivered to the person in charge of such place or institution to which the person taken into custody may be removed and shall con- stitute the authority for the detention of such person in such place or institution until such order expires or until such person is discharged in the manner set forth in this section or section 5 of this Act. Such order shall expire forty-eight hours (exclusive of Sundays and holi- days) after such officer, employee, or member shall take into his cus- tody such person as provided in section 3, unless it shall be continued in force and effect by a judge of the Municipal Court for the District August 8, 1946 [H. R . 4410] [Public Law 664] District of Colum- bia. Control of communi- cable diseases, etc. D. C. Code 6-118. 53 Stat. 1408. D. C. Code I6-119. "Communicable disease. " Removal of persons believed to be carriers, etc. Authority for deten- tion. Expiration of order. 919 Ante, p. 207. Short title.

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