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[CITE: 21USC113]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 113. Measures to prevent exportation of diseased livestock 
        and live poultry
        
    In order to prevent the exportation from any port of the United 
States to any port in a foreign country of livestock and/or live poultry 
affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and 
especially pleuropneumonia, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized 
to take such steps and adopt such measures, not inconsistent with the 
provisions of this Act, as he may deem necessary.

(May 29, 1884, ch. 60, Sec. 5, 23 Stat. 32; Feb. 2, 1903, ch. 349, 
Sec. 1, 32 Stat. 791; Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is act May 29, 1884, ch. 60, 23 Stat. 
31, as amended, which is popularly known as the Animal Industry Act. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 112 of this title and Tables.

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of part of section 1 of act Feb. 2, 1903. 
Remainder of such section 1 is classified to sections 112, 120, and 121 
of this title.
    Substitution of Secretary of Agriculture for Commissioner of 
Agriculture, see note set out under section 112 of this title.


                               Amendments

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

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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