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[CITE: 21USC112]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 112. Investigations as to pleuropneumonia, and other 
        diseases; regulations
        
    In order to promote the exportation of livestock and/or live poultry 
from the United States the Secretary of Agriculture shall make special 
investigation as to the existence of pleuropneumonia, or any contagious, 
infectious, or communicable disease, along the dividing lines between 
the United States and foreign countries, and along the lines of 
transportation from all parts of the United States to ports from which 
livestock and/or live poultry are exported, and shall, from time to 
time, establish such regulations concerning the exportation and 
transportation of livestock and/or live poultry as the results of said 
investigations may require.

(May 29, 1884, ch. 60, Sec. 4, 23 Stat. 32; Feb. 2, 1903, ch. 349, 
Sec. 1, 32 Stat. 791; Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59.)

                          Codification

    Originally this section and sections 113, 114, 117, 119, 120, and 
130 of this title read ``Commissioner'' instead of ``Secretary'' of 
Agriculture, and this section contained between the words ``and'' and 
``shall,'' the additional words ``make report of the results of such 
investigation to the Secretary of the Treasury, who''.
    Designation of office of Commissioner of Agriculture changed by 
change of department into an executive department under a Secretary of 
Agriculture, by act Feb. 9, 1889, ch. 122, Sec. 1, 25 Stat. 659, set out 
as section 2202 of Title 7, Agriculture. Authority granted to 
Commissioner by act May 29, 1884, vested in Secretary of Agriculture by 
a provision of act July 14, 1890, ch. 707, 26 Stat. 288, set out as 
section 2205 of Title 7.
    Powers conferred on Secretary of the Treasury by act May 29, 1884, 
were conferred on Secretary of Agriculture by part of section 1 of act 
Feb. 2, 1903. Remainder of such section 1 is classified to sections 113, 
120, and 121 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1928--Act Feb. 7, 1928, inserted ``and/or live poultry'' after 
``livestock'' wherever appearing.


                               Short Title

    Act Feb. 2, 1903, classified to sections 112 and 120 to 122 of this 
title, entitled, ``An act to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more 
effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious 
diseases of live stock, and for other purposes'' is popularly known as 
the Cattle Contagious Diseases Act of 1903.
    Act May 29, 1884, entitled, ``An act for the establishment of a 
Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased 
cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of 
pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals'' 
is popularly known as the Animal Industry Act. The Act is classified to 
sections 112, 113 to 114a-1, 115, 116, 117 to 120, and 130 of this title 
and section 391 of Title 7, Agriculture.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 113, 114, 118, 119, 136a of 
this title; title 16 section 1540.
