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[CITE: 21USC116]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 116. Shipment of certain cattle excepted

    Cattle which have reacted to the tuberculin test may be shipped, 
transported, or 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 
shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. The said Secretary 
of Agriculture may, in his discretion, and under such rules and 
regulations as he may prescribe, permit cattle which have been shipped 
for breeding or feeding purposes from one State, Territory, or the 
District of Columbia to another State, Territory, or the District of 
Columbia, and which have reacted to the tuberculin test subsequent to 
such shipment, to be reshipped in interstate commerce to the original 
owner.

(May 29, 1884, ch. 60, 23 Stat. 31; May 31, 1920, ch. 217, 41 Stat. 
699.)


                               Amendments

    1920--Act May 31, 1920, amended act May 29, 1884, without amending 
any particular section thereof, by enacting provisions set out as this 
section. For classification of act May 29, 1884, to the Code, see Short 
Title note set out under section 112 of this title and Tables.


                 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 section 136a of this title; title 16 
section 1540.
