Section 17-108. Infected places outside the city; proclamation

a. The board
  may issue a proclamation declaring any place where there shall be reason
  to believe a communicable disease actually exists,  to  be  an  infected
  place  within  the  meaning  of  the  health  laws  of  this state. Such
  proclamation shall fix the time when it shall cease to have  effect  but
  such period, from time to time, may be extended by the board if it shall
  judge  the  public  health  to  require  such  extension.  Notice  of an
  extension shall be published in one or more newspapers of the city.
    b. After  such  proclamation  shall  have  been  issued,  all  vessels
  arriving  in  the  port  of  New  York from such infected place shall be
  subject to a quarantine of at least thirty days or until the termination
  of the proclamation period, and together  with  their  officers,  crews,
  passengers  and  cargoes,  shall  be  subject  to  all  the  provisions,
  regulations and penalties in relation to vessels subject to quarantine.
    c. The board may prohibit or regulate the internal intercourse by land
  or water between the city and the infected place; and  may  direct  that
  all  persons  who  come  into  the  city  contrary to its prohibition or
  regulations shall be apprehended and conveyed to the  vessel  or  places
  from  where they last came, or if sick, to such place as the board shall
  direct.
    d. Failure to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall
  constitute  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  a fine of not exceeding two
  hundred fifty dollars, or imprisonment  not  exceeding  six  months,  or
  both.