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[CITE: 21USC114]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 114. Regulations for suppression of diseases; cooperation 
        of States and Territories
        
    It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare such 
rules and regulations as he may deem necessary for the speedy and 
effectual suppression and extirpation of pleuropneumonia and other 
dangerous, contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases, and to 
certify such rules and regulations to the executive authority of each 
State and Territory, and invite said authorities to cooperate in the 
execution and enforcement of the provisions of this Act. Whenever the 
plans and methods of the Secretary of Agriculture shall be accepted by 
any State or Territory in which pleuropneumonia or other contagious, 
infectious, or communicable disease is declared to exist, or such State 
or Territory shall have adopted plans and methods for the suppression 
and extirpation of said diseases, and such plans and methods shall be 
accepted by the Secretary of Agriculture, and whenever the governor of a 
State or other properly constituted authorities signify their readiness 
to cooperate for the extinction of any contagious, infectious, or 
communicable disease in conformity with the provisions of this Act, the 
Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to expend so much of the money 
appropriated for carrying out the provisions of this Act as may be 
necessary in such investigations, and in such disinfection and 
quarantine measures as may be necessary to prevent the spread of the 
disease from one State or Territory into another.

(May 29, 1884, ch. 60, Sec. 3, 23 Stat. 32.)

                       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

    Substitution of Secretary of Agriculture for Commissioner of 
Agriculture, see note set out under section 112 of this title.


                 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 113, 118, 119, 136a of this 
title; title 16 section 1540.
