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[CITE: 21USC125]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 125. Regulations for inspection, disinfection, and 
        certification, and delivery and shipment of quarantined animals 
        and live poultry from State or Territory
        
    It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture, and he is 
authorized and directed, when the public safety will permit, to make and 
promulgate rules and regulations which shall permit and govern the 
inspection, disinfection, certification, treatment, handling, and method 
and manner of delivery and shipment of quarantined animals or live 
poultry from a quarantined State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia, and from the quarantined portion of any State or Territory or 
the District of Columbia, into any other State or Territory or the 
District of Columbia.

(Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1496, Sec. 3, 33 Stat. 1265; Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 
Stat. 59; Pub. L. 87-518, Sec. 8(b), July 2, 1962, 76 Stat. 131; Pub. L. 
95-439, Sec. 3, Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1061.)


                               Amendments

    1978--Pub. L. 95-439 struck out provision requiring Secretary of 
Agriculture to give notice of rules and regulations in the manner 
prescribed in section 123 of this title for notice of establishment of 
quarantine.
    1962--Pub. L. 87-518 substituted ``quarantined animals'' for 
``cattle or other livestock''.
    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 126, 128, 136a of this 
title; title 16 section 1540.
