2000 U.S. Code
Title 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER 4 - ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
SUBCHAPTER III - PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
Sec. 111 - Regulations to prevent contagious diseases
View Metadata| Publication Title | United States Code, 2000 Edition, Title 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS CHAPTER 4 - ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS SUBCHAPTER III - PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION Sec. 111 - Regulations to prevent contagious diseases |
| Contains | section 111 |
| Date | 2000 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 2, 2001 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Feb. 2, 1903, ch. 349, §2, 32 Stat. 792; July 22, 1954, ch. 558, §33, 68 Stat. 510; Jan. 28, 1956, ch. 12, §2, 70 Stat. 5. |
| Statutes at Large References | 32 Stat. 792 45 Stat. 59 68 Stat. 510 70 Stat. 5 |
§111. Regulations to prevent contagious diseases
The Secretary of Agriculture shall have authority to make such regulations and take such measures as he may deem proper to prevent the introduction or dissemination of the contagion of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease of animals from a foreign country into the United States or from one State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to another, and to seize, quarantine, and dispose of any hay, straw, forage, or similar material, or any meats, hides, or other animal products coming from an infected foreign country to the United States, or from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia in transit to another State or Territory or the District of Columbia whenever in his judgment such action is advisable in order to guard against the introduction or spread of such contagion.
(Feb. 2, 1903, ch. 349, §2, 32 Stat. 792; July 22, 1954, ch. 558, §33, 68 Stat. 510; Jan. 28, 1956, ch. 12, §2, 70 Stat. 5.)
Amendments1956—Act Jan. 28, 1956, struck out proviso “that no such regulations or measures shall pertain to the introduction of live poultry into the Virgin Islands of the United States”.
1954—Act July 22, 1954, inserted proviso containing an exception with respect to admission of live poultry into the Virgin Islands.
Effective Date of 1954 AmendmentFor effective date of amendment by act July 22, 1954, see section 34 of act July 22, 1954, set out as an Effective Date note under section 1541 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Extension of Provisions to Live PoultryAct Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59, extended the terms and provisions of this section to live poultry.
Section Referred to in Other SectionsThis section is referred to in sections 114g, 122, 136a of this title; title 16 section 1540.
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