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[CITE: 21USC123]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 123. Quarantine

    The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to quarantine by 
regulation any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or any 
portion of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, when he 
shall determine the fact that any animals or live poultry in such State 
or Territory or District of Columbia are affected with any contagious, 
infectious, or communicable disease of livestock or poultry or that the 
contagion of any such disease exists or that vectors which may 
disseminate any such disease exist in such State or Territory or the 
District of Columbia.

(Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1496, Sec. 1, 33 Stat. 1264; Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 
Stat. 59; Pub. L. 87-518, Sec. 8(a), July 2, 1962, 76 Stat. 131; Pub. L. 
95-439, Sec. 2, Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1061.)


                               Amendments

    1978--Pub. L. 95-439 struck out provision requiring Secretary of 
Agriculture to give written notice of the establishment of quarantine to 
the proper officials of railroads, steamboats, or other transportation 
systems and to publish notice of the establishment of quarantine in 
newspapers in the quarantined State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia.
    1962--Pub. L. 87-518 authorized quarantine upon the determination 
that any animals or poultry are affected with a communicable disease of 
livestock or poultry or that the contagion of any such disease exists or 
that vectors which may disseminate any such disease exist.
    1928--Act Feb. 7, 1928, inserted ``and/or live poultry'' after 
``livestock''.


                               Short Title

    This section and sections 124 to 127 of this title are from act Mar. 
3, 1905, entitled ``An act to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to 
establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the 
movement of cattle and other live stock therefrom, and for other 
purposes and constitute the Cattle Contagious Diseases Act of 1905.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 128, 136a of this title; 
title 16 section 1540.
