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[CITE: 15USC1821]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                    CHAPTER 44--PROTECTION OF HORSES
 
Sec. 1821. Definitions

    As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:
        (1) The term ``management'' means any person who organizes, 
    exercises control over, or administers or who is responsible for 
    organizing, directing, or administering.
        (2) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Agriculture.
        (3) The term ``sore'' when used to describe a horse means that--
            (A) an irritating or blistering agent has been applied, 
        internally or externally, by a person to any limb of a horse,
            (B) any burn, cut, or laceration has been inflicted by a 
        person on any limb of a horse,
            (C) any tack, nail, screw, or chemical agent has been 
        injected by a person into or used by a person on any limb of a 
        horse, or
            (D) any other substance or device has been used by a person 
        on any limb of a horse or a person has engaged in a practice 
        involving a horse,

    and, as a result of such application, infliction, injection, use, or 
    practice, such horse suffers, or can reasonably be expected to 
    suffer, physical pain or distress, inflammation, or lameness when 
    walking, trotting, or otherwise moving, except that such term does 
    not include such an application, infliction, injection, use, or 
    practice in connection with the therapeutic treatment of a horse by 
    or under the supervision of a person licensed to practice veterinary 
    medicine in the State in which such treatment was given.
        (4) The term ``State'' means any of the several States, the 
    District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin 
    Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the 
    Pacific Islands.

(Pub. L. 91-540, Sec. 2, Dec. 9, 1970, 84 Stat. 1404; Pub. L. 94-360, 
Sec. 3, July 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 915.)


                               Amendments

    1976--Pub. L. 94-360 added pars. (1) and (2), redesignated subsec. 
(a), defining ``sore'' as meaning that certain substances or devices had 
been applied to any limb of a horse prior to Dec. 9, 1970, resulting in, 
or reasonably likely to result in, such horse suffering physical pain or 
distress when walking or trotting, as par. (3) and, as so redesignated, 
struck out requirement that such substance or device had to have been 
applied prior to Dec. 9, 1970 in order for a horse to be considered 
``sored'' for purposes of this chapter, and substituted par. (4) 
defining ``State'' for subsec. (b) defining ``commerce'' as between a 
point in any State or possession of the United States and any point 
outside thereof, or between points within the same State or possession 
of the United States but through any place outside thereof, or within 
the District of Columbia, or from any foreign country to any point 
within the United States.


                      Short Title of 1976 Amendment

    Section 1(a) of Pub. L. 94-360 provided that: ``This Act [amending 
this section and sections 1822 to 1825, 1827, 1830, and 1831 of this 
title and enacting provisions set out as notes under this section and 
section 1831 of this title] may be cited as the `Horse Protection Act 
Amendments of 1976'.''


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 91-540, as amended by Pub. L. 94-360, Sec. 2, 
July 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 915, provided: ``That this Act [enacting this 
chapter] may be cited as the `Horse Protection Act'.''

          Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

    For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note 
set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular 
Possessions.
