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[CITE: 21USC128]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 128. Extension of quarantine law to carriers in interstate 
        commerce
        
    The provisions of sections 123 to 127 of this title shall apply to 
any railroad company or other common carrier whose road or line forms 
any part of a route over which quarantined animals are transported in 
the course of shipment from any quarantined State or Territory or the 
District of Columbia, or 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.

(June 30, 1914, ch. 131, 38 Stat. 419; Pub. L. 87-518, Sec. 9, July 2, 
1962, 76 Stat. 131.)

                          Codification

    Section is from the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 
1915.


                               Amendments

    1962--Pub. L. 87-518 substituted ``quarantined animals'' for 
``cattle or other livestock''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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