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[CITE: 21USC127]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 127. Transportation from quarantined State, Territory, 
        etc.; penalty
        
    Any person, company, or corporation violating the provisions of 
sections 124 or 126 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred 
dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not more 
than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any person, 
company, or corporation violating such provisions may be assessed a 
civil penalty by the Secretary of Agriculture of not more than one 
thousand dollars. The Secretary may issue an order assessing such civil 
penalty only after notice and an opportunity for an agency hearing on 
the record. Such order shall be treated as a final order reviewable 
under chapter 158 of title 28. The validity of such order may not be 
reviewed in an action to collect such civil penalty.

(Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1496, Sec. 6, 33 Stat. 1265; Pub. L. 97-461, Sec. 7, 
Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2525.)


                               Amendments

    1983--Pub. L. 97-461 substituted ``five thousand dollars'' for ``one 
thousand dollars'' and inserted provisions relating to a civil penalty.


                 Extension of Provisions to Live Poultry

    Act Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59, extended the penalties, 
terms, and provisions of this section to live poultry.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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