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. 123 - Quarantine
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. 123 - Quarantine |
| Contains | section 123 |
| Date | 2000 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 2, 2001 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1496, §1, 33 Stat. 1264; Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59; Pub. L. 87-518, §8(a), July 2, 1962, 76 Stat. 131; Pub. L. 95-439, §2, Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1061. |
| Statutes at Large References | 33 Stat. 1264 45 Stat. 59 76 Stat. 131 92 Stat. 1061 |
| Public Law References | Public Law 87-518, Public Law 95-439 |
§123. Quarantine
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to quarantine by regulation any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or any portion of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, when he shall determine the fact that any animals or live poultry in such State or Territory or District of Columbia are affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease of livestock or poultry or that the contagion of any such disease exists or that vectors which may disseminate any such disease exist in such State or Territory or the District of Columbia.
(Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1496, §1, 33 Stat. 1264; Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59; Pub. L. 87–518, §8(a), July 2, 1962, 76 Stat. 131; Pub. L. 95–439, §2, Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1061.)
Amendments1978—Pub. L. 95–439 struck out provision requiring Secretary of Agriculture to give written notice of the establishment of quarantine to the proper officials of railroads, steamboats, or other transportation systems and to publish notice of the establishment of quarantine in newspapers in the quarantined State or Territory or the District of Columbia.
1962—Pub. L. 87–518 authorized quarantine upon the determination that any animals or poultry are affected with a communicable disease of livestock or poultry or that the contagion of any such disease exists or that vectors which may disseminate any such disease exist.
1928—Act Feb. 7, 1928, inserted “and/or live poultry” after “livestock”.
Short TitleThis section and sections 124 to 127 of this title are from act Mar. 3, 1905, entitled “An act to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other live stock therefrom, and for other purposes and constitute the Cattle Contagious Diseases Act of 1905.”
Section Referred to in Other SectionsThis section is referred to in sections 128, 136a of this title; title 16 section 1540.
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