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[CITE: 21USC121]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 121. Shipments from areas suspected infected; control of 
        animals and live poultry
        
    Whenever any inspector or assistant inspector of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry shall issue a certificate showing that such officer had 
inspected any cattle or other livestock and/or live poultry which were 
about to be shipped, driven, or transported from such locality to 
another as stated in section 120 of this title, and had found them free 
from Texas or splenetic fever infection, pleuropneumonia, foot-and-mouth 
disease, or any other infectious, contagious, or communicable disease, 
such animals, so inspected and certified, may be shipped, driven, or 
transported from such place into and through any State or Territory, and 
into and through the District of Columbia, or they may be exported from 
the United States without further inspection or the exaction of fees of 
any kind, except such as may at any time be ordered or exacted by the 
Secretary of Agriculture; and all such animals shall at all times be 
under the control and supervision of the Bureau of Animal Industry of 
the Agricultural Department for the purposes of such inspection.

(Feb. 2, 1903, ch. 349, Sec. 1, 32 Stat. 791; Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 
Stat. 59.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of part of section 1 of act Feb. 2, 1903. 
Remainder of such section 1 is classified to sections 112, 113 and 120 
of this title.
    The words ``including the Indian territory'' which followed 
``Territory'' in the original text of this section were omitted as 
obsolete.


                               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 sections 122, 136a of this title; 
title 16 section 1540.
