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[CITE: 21USC130]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 130. Pleuropneumonia in District of Columbia; duties of 
        Council of the District of Columbia
        
    Whenever any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease 
affecting domestic animals, and especially the disease known as 
pleuropneumonia, shall be brought into or shall break out in the 
District of Columbia, it shall be the duty of the Council of the 
District of Columbia to take measures to suppress the same promptly and 
to prevent the same from spreading; and for this purpose the said 
Council is empowered to order and require that any premises, farm, or 
farms where such disease exists, or has existed, be put in quarantine; 
to order all or any animals coming into the District to be detained at 
any place or places for the purpose of inspection and examination; to 
prescribe regulations for and to require the destruction of animals 
affected with contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and for 
the proper disposition of their hides and carcasses; to prescribe 
regulations for disinfection, and such other regulations as they may 
deem necessary to prevent infection or contagion being communicated, and 
shall report to the Secretary of Agriculture whatever it may do in 
pursuance of the provisions of this section.

(May 29, 1884, ch. 60, Sec. 8, 23 Stat. 33; 1967 Reorg. Plan No. 3, 
Sec. 402(430), eff. Aug. 11, 1967, 32 F.R. 11669, 81 Stat. 948; Pub. L. 
93-198, title IV, Sec. 401, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 793.)

                          Codification

    Substitution of Secretary of Agriculture for Commissioner of 
Agriculture, see note set out under section 112 of this title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Council of the District of Columbia'' substituted in text for 
``District of Columbia Council'' pursuant to section 401 of Pub. L. 93-
198. District of Columbia Council, as established by Reorg. Plan No. 3 
of 1967, abolished as of noon Jan. 2, 1975, by Pub. L. 93-198, title 
VII, Sec. 711, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 818, and replaced by Council of 
the District of Columbia, as provided by section 401 of Pub. L. 93-198.
    Previously, references to Commissioners of District of Columbia had 
been changed to District of Columbia Council pursuant to section 
402(430) of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967, 32 F.R. 11669, effective 
Aug. 11, 1967, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees, which transferred regulatory and other 
functions of Board of Commissioners relating to prescribing of 
regulations for destruction of animals or live poultry affected by 
contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and for proper 
disposition of their hides and carcasses, and prescribing of regulations 
for disinfection and other regulations under this section to District of 
Columbia Council, subject to right of Commissioner as provided by 
section 406 of Plan. For provisions establishing District of Columbia 
Council, see section 201 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967.


                 Extension of Provisions to Live Poultry

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

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 113, 114, 118, 119, 136a of 
this title; title 16 section 1540.
