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**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN** 

Honorable Oeorge W. Cox stste Eeslth Offloer Texar State Board of Health Austin 2, Texar



### Deersirs

ion of this dopar requesting the oplnbjeot reads 

### aa follovar 18 opemtlng are hospital treatment of ge of a venereal looated rt El Paso, and Corpus Chrletl ed on the aoooqmyote, there 18no aenter. sotlon of Texar. 8 Rapid Treatment Center located IIOVMexloo, and it 18 the olose8t e part of Texan in quertlon. I 0 get your opinion on the follovlng

“Provided It la a roeable vlth the State Health 

### Offloorof Rwfiextioo, 

### are thereany legal 

### restrlotlonr

vhlohvould prevent the Texas State Health Department rending patients ln the infeotlour #tags of a venereal dl8eese to the 

### Rapid

### HonorableGeorgeU.Cox,Page~2

Treatment Center In Albuqueque 

### for treatment and-are? Suohpatients are admltted to these oentera br voluntary adalaalon 

### or by quarantine oommlttamntsigned 

### by the health ofiloer. Can a patient mder quarantine ln 

### Texasbe tranaported 

### into lfev Mexioo 

### sofar as our Texas lava we oonoerned?” Youhave been advised by thla department la Opinion lo. 0-4736 t&t the State Health Offlo~r la authorized to plaoe a person la tha lnfeotloua 

### stage of a venereal disease under qwrantlne 

### andto rewove awh peraon from on6 oounty to snother **for** treatment; and later, in Opinion Ilo. O-5610, that the State Health Offloer 

### vaa authorized to oo-operate with the Federal OovernmentIn the dellvely ot personr 

### underquarantine to certain Federal oontrolled treatment oentera. Tour present question, hovever, relates to the authorit of the State Health 

### Offloor **to remove**  auoh Infected person from this hate to mother state Zor treetment or to deliver 

### l

uoh person held 

### underquarantiru to the authorities of another atate.

Fro8 aa exaralaation of the authorities under vhloh the lrederal Oovemment malnhlna the treatment oentera re

### ferred to in Tour letter, ve hve fall& to find any law that vould p-rent a person under quaxmtlno in Tuxna la the infeotloua rtage of venereal dlreaae from voluntarily aubmlttlug to treatment ln Albuquerque, Nevtixioo and the deliver7 of such pmaon to the author~tlea of the State of Fleer 

### Mexico by the State Health Oftloer or his agent rould not oonfllot vlth 6~ 

### Texasoonatltutlonal provlaio~ 

### or statute.



### Hovever,the forcible removal fro8 this State of persona held under quarantine, presents an entirely different alt.wtlon. Our search has failed to reran1 a statute 

### or 8 oonatltutlonal 

### pro~lalonvhloh rould authorize the deportation OSa person ln the iaiaotloua stage of yenereal disease from vlthln the 

### boundariesof Texas to a sister state for treatment. Peraona under this elaaaltloatlon vould not oomo under the extredltlon lav aa they 11ranot fugltlver from juatloe oherged vlth a 

### orlme In the other 

### state. In an almoatunbroken line of deolalana, both la Fedora1 and State 

### jurladlotlon,therulehaabeenexpressedthatthesurrender ofapersonln one state for dellvary to another la prohibited. Innea vs. robin, 173S.W. 291, aiflrmed by Il. 9. 

### SupremeCourt, 240U.S. 127.. , 

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Honorable (korgo W, Cox, Pager3

Therefore, in tha abaenoe of express authority to so do, it la the opinion OS’this depsrtment that the deporting of a venereal patient, held under quamtine, from Texas to llev *x100 for treatment, vould be an illegal 

### undertaking.

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