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[CITE: 15USC1829]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                    CHAPTER 44--PROTECTION OF HORSES
 
Sec. 1829. Preemption of State laws; concurrent jurisdiction; 
        prohibition on certain State action
        
    No provision of this chapter shall be construed as indicating an 
intent on the part of the Congress to occupy the field in which such 
provision operates to the exclusion of the law of any State on the same 
subject matter, unless there is a direct and positive conflict between 
such provision and the law of the State so that the two cannot be 
reconciled or consistently stand together. Nor shall any provision of 
this chapter be construed to exclude the Federal Government from 
enforcing the provision of this chapter within any State, whether or not 
such State has enacted legislation on the same subject, it being the 
intent of the Congress to establish concurrent jurisdiction with the 
States over such subject matter. In no case shall any such State take 
any action pursuant to this section involving a violation of any such 
law of that State which would preclude the United States from enforcing 
the provisions of this chapter against any person.

(Pub. L. 91-540, Sec. 10, Dec. 9, 1970, 84 Stat. 1406.)
