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[CITE: 21USC111]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 111. Regulations to prevent contagious diseases

    The Secretary of Agriculture shall have authority to make such 
regulations and take such measures as he may deem proper to prevent the 
introduction or dissemination of the contagion of any contagious, 
infectious, or communicable disease of animals from a foreign country 
into the United States or from one State or Territory of the United 
States or the District of Columbia to another, and to seize, quarantine, 
and dispose of any hay, straw, forage, or similar material, or any 
meats, hides, or other animal products coming from an infected foreign 
country to the United States, or from one State or Territory or the 
District of Columbia in transit to another State or Territory or the 
District of Columbia whenever in his judgment such action is advisable 
in order to guard against the introduction or spread of such contagion.

(Feb. 2, 1903, ch. 349, Sec. 2, 32 Stat. 792; July 22, 1954, ch. 558, 
Sec. 33, 68 Stat. 510; Jan. 28, 1956, ch. 12, Sec. 2, 70 Stat. 5.)


                               Amendments

    1956--Act Jan. 28, 1956, struck out proviso ``that no such 
regulations or measures shall pertain to the introduction of live 
poultry into the Virgin Islands of the United States''.
    1954--Act July 22, 1954, inserted proviso containing an exception 
with respect to admission of live poultry into the Virgin Islands.


                    Effective Date of 1954 Amendment

    For effective date of amendment by act July 22, 1954, see section 34 
of act July 22, 1954, set out as an Effective Date note under section 
1541 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.


                 Extension of Provisions to Live Poultry

    Act Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59, extended the terms and 
provisions of this section to live poultry.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 114g, 122, 136a of this 
title; title 16 section 1540.
