42 CFR § 70.7 - Responsibility with respect to minors, wards, and patients.

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title: "42 CFR § 70.7 - Responsibility with respect to minors, wards, and patients."
title_number: 42
title_name: "Public Health"
section_number: "70.7"
section_name: "Responsibility with respect to minors, wards, and patients."
chapter_name: "PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "F"
subchapter_name: "QUARANTINE, INSPECTION, LICENSING"
part_number: "70"
part_name: "INTERSTATE QUARANTINE"
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currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Secs. 215 and 311 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 216, 243); section 361-369, PHS Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 264-272); 31 U.S.C. 9701."
regulatory_source: "65 FR 49908, Aug. 16, 2000, unless otherwise noted."
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# 70.7 Responsibility with respect to minors, wards, and patients.

A parent, guardian, physician, nurse, or other such person shall not transport, or procure or furnish transportation for any minor child or ward, patient or other such person who is in the communicable period of a communicable disease, except in accordance with provisions of this part.