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[CITE: 21USC115]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 115. Transportation of diseased livestock and live poultry 
        prohibited
        
    No railroad company within the United States, or the owners or 
masters of any steam or sailing or other vessel or boat, shall receive 
for transportation or transport from one State or Territory to another, 
or from any State into the District of Columbia, or from the District 
into any State, any livestock and/or live poultry affected with any 
contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and especially the 
disease known as pleuropneumonia; nor shall any person, company, or 
corporation deliver for such transportation to any railroad company, or 
master or owner of any boat or vessel, any livestock and/or live 
poultry, knowing them to be affected with any contagious, infectious, or 
communicable disease; nor shall any person, company, or corporation 
drive on foot, or transport in private conveyance from one State or 
Territory to another, or from any State into the District of Columbia, 
or from the District into any State, any livestock and/or live poultry, 
knowing them to be affected with any contagious, infectious, or 
communicable disease, and especially the disease known as 
pleuropneumonia: Provided, That such livestock or poultry may be so 
delivered and received for such transportation and so transported and 
moved if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that such action will 
not endanger the livestock or poultry of the United States and 
authorizes such action, and such delivery, receipt, transportation, and 
movement are made in strict compliance with such rules and regulations 
as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe to protect the livestock 
and poultry of the United States.

(May 29, 1884, ch. 60, Sec. 6, 23 Stat. 32; June 28, 1926, ch. 700, 
Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 774; Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59; Pub. L. 87-763, 
Oct. 9, 1962, 76 Stat. 762.)

                          Codification

    Act May 29, 1884, as amended by act June 28, 1926, also contained 
the following proviso: ``That until May 1, 1928, cattle infested with or 
exposed to cattle fever ticks may be shipped in interstate commerce for 
immediate slaughter after one dipping in accordance with such 
regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe.''


                               Amendments

    1962--Pub. L. 87-763 inserted proviso permitting such livestock or 
poultry to be delivered and received for transportation and so 
transported and moved if the Secretary determines that such action will 
not endanger the livestock or poultry of the United States and 
authorizes such action, and such delivery, receipt, transportation, and 
movement are made in strict compliance with such rules and regulations 
as the Secretary may prescribe.
    1928--Act Feb. 7, 1928, inserted ``and/or live poultry'' after 
``livestock'' wherever appearing.
    1926--Act June 28, 1926, struck out provision deeming splenetic or 
Texas fever not a communicable disease as to cattle unloaded only to be 
fed and watered on the way by rail to market for slaughter.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 113, 114, 117, 118, 119, 
136a of this title; title 16 section 1540.
