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[CITE: 21USC101]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
           SUBCHAPTER II--IMPORTATION OF CATTLE AND QUARANTINE
 
Sec. 101. Suspension of importation of all animals

    Whenever, in the opinion of the President, it shall be necessary for 
the protection of animals in the United States against infectious or 
contagious diseases, he may, by proclamation, suspend the importation of 
all or any class of animals for a limited time, and may change, modify, 
revoke, or renew such proclamation, as the public good may require; and 
during the time of such suspension the importation of any such animals 
shall be unlawful.

(Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 839, Sec. 9, 26 Stat. 416.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 104, 136a of this title; 
title 16 section 1540.
