2001 US 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. 120 - Regulation of exportation and transportation of infected livestock and live poultry
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 2000 Edition, Supplement 1, 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. 120 - Regulation of exportation and transportation of infected livestock and live poultry |
Contains | section 120 |
Date | 2001 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 22, 2002 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | May 29, 1884, ch. 60, §§4, 5, 23 Stat. 32; Feb. 2, 1903, ch. 349, §1, 32 Stat. 791; Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59. |
Statutes at Large References | 23 Stat. 32 32 Stat. 791 45 Stat. 59 |
§120. Regulation of exportation and transportation of infected livestock and live poultry
In order to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to effectually suppress and extirpate contagious pleuropneumonia, foot-and-mouth disease, and other dangerous contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases in cattle and other livestock and/or live poultry, and to prevent the spread of such diseases, he is authorized and directed from time to time to establish such rules and regulations concerning the exportation and transportation of livestock and/or live poultry from any place within the United States where he may have reason to believe such diseases may exist into and through any State or Territory, and into and through the District of Columbia and to foreign countries as he may deem necessary, and all such rules and regulations shall have the force of law.
(May 29, 1884, ch. 60, §§4, 5, 23 Stat. 32; Feb. 2, 1903, ch. 349, §1, 32 Stat. 791; Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59.)
CodificationSection is comprised of part of section 1 of act Feb. 2, 1903. Remainder of such section 1 is classified to sections 112, 113, and 121 of this title. The words “including the Indian Territory” which followed the word “Territory” in the original text of this section were omitted as obsolete.
Substitution of Secretary of Agriculture for Commissioner of Agriculture, see note set out under section 112 of this title.
Amendments1928—Act Feb. 7, 1928, inserted “and/or live poultry” after “livestock” wherever appearing.
Section Referred to in Other SectionsThis section is referred to in sections 113, 114, 118, 119, 121, 122, 136a of this title; title 16 section 1540.
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