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[CITE: 21USC103]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
           SUBCHAPTER II--IMPORTATION OF CATTLE AND QUARANTINE
 
Sec. 103. Importation, except at quarantine ports, prohibited; 
        slaughter of infected animals; appraisal; payment
        
    The importation of all animals described in this subchapter into any 
port in the United States, except such as may be designated by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, with the approval of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, as quarantine stations, is prohibited. The Secretary of 
Agriculture may cause to be slaughtered such of the animals named in 
this subchapter as may be, under regulations prescribed by him, adjudged 
to be infected with any contagious disease, or to have been exposed to 
infection so as to be dangerous to other animals. The value of animals 
so slaughtered as being so exposed to infection but not infected may be 
ascertained by agreement of the Secretary of Agriculture and the owners 
thereof if practicable; otherwise, by the appraisal by two persons 
familiar with the character and value of such property, to be appointed 
by the Secretary of Agriculture, whose decision, if they agree, shall be 
final; otherwise, the Secretary of Agriculture shall decide between 
them, and his decision shall be final. The amount of the value thus 
ascertained shall be paid to the owner thereof out of money in the 
Treasury appropriated for the use of the Bureau of Animal Industry; but 
no payment shall be made for any animal imported in violation of the 
provisions of this subchapter. If any animal subject to quarantine 
according to the provisions of this subchapter are brought into any port 
of the United States where no quarantine station is established, the 
collector of such port shall require the same to be conveyed, by the 
vessel on which they are imported or are found to the nearest quarantine 
station, at the expense of the owner.

(Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 839, Sec. 8, 26 Stat. 416.)

                       References in Text

    This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this 
Act'', meaning act Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 839, 26 Stat. 415, as amended, 
which is classified to sections 18, and 101 to 105 of this title and 
section 181 of Title 19, Customs Duties. For complete classification of 
this Act to the Code, see Tables.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Bureau of Animal Industry transferred to Secretary of 
Agriculture by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1947, Sec. 301, eff. July 1, 1947, 
12 F.R. 4534, 61 Stat. 952, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees.
    For abolition of the offices of collector of customs, see note set 
out under section 44 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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