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[CITE: 21USC114a-1]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 114a-1. Interstate movement of domestic animals reacting to 
        tests for brucellosis; immediate slaughter; rules and 
        regulations
        
    Domestic animals which have reacted to a test recognized by the 
Secretary of Agriculture for paratuberculosis or which, never having 
been vaccinated for brucellosis, have reacted to a test recognized by 
the Secretary of Agriculture for brucellosis, may be shipped, 
transported, or otherwise moved from one State, Territory, or the 
District of Columbia to any other State, Territory, or the District of 
Columbia for immediate slaughter in accordance with such rules and 
regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe to prevent the 
dissemination of said diseases from one State, Territory, or the 
District of Columbia to any other State, Territory, or the District of 
Columbia. The Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion and under 
such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, permit domestic animals 
which have been moved from one State, Territory, or the District of 
Columbia to any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, for 
breeding purposes, and which, subsequent to such movement, have reacted 
to a test for brucellosis or paratuberculosis recognized by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, to be reshipped in interstate commerce to the 
original owner at the point of origin.

(May 29, 1884, ch. 60, Sec. 13, as added Oct. 30, 1951, ch. 637, Sec. 2, 
65 Stat. 693.)

                  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.
