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[CITE: 21USC134d]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 134d. Inspections and seizures; issuance of warrants

    Employees of the Department of Agriculture designated by the 
Secretary for the purpose, when properly identified, shall have 
authority (1) to stop and inspect, without a warrant, any person or 
means of conveyance, moving into the United States from a foreign 
country, to determine whether such person or means of conveyance is 
carrying any animal, carcass, product, or article regulated or subject 
to disposal under any law or regulation administered by the Secretary 
for prevention of the introduction or dissemination of any communicable 
animal disease; (2) to stop and inspect, without a warrant, any means of 
conveyance moving interstate upon probable cause to believe that such 
means of conveyance is carrying any animal, carcass, product, or article 
regulated or subject to disposal under any law or regulation 
administered by the Secretary for the prevention of the introduction or 
dissemination of any communicable animal disease; and (3) to enter upon, 
with a warrant, any premises for the purpose of making inspections and 
seizures necessary under such laws and regulations. Any Federal judge, 
or any judge of a court of record in the United States, or any United 
States magistrate judge, may, within his jurisdiction, upon proper oath 
or affirmation indicating probable cause to believe that there is on 
certain premises any animal, carcass, product, or article regulated or 
subject to disposal under any law or regulation administered by the 
Secretary for the prevention of the introduction or dissemination of any 
communicable animal disease, issue warrants for the entry upon such 
premises and for inspections and seizures necessary under such laws and 
regulations. Such warrants may be executed by any authorized employee of 
the Department of Agriculture.

(Pub. L. 87-518, Sec. 5, July 2, 1962, 76 Stat. 130; Pub. L. 90-578, 
title IV, Sec. 402(b)(2), Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1118; Pub. L. 101-650, 
title III, Sec. 321, Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5117.)

                         Change of Name

    ``United States magistrate judge'' substituted in text for ``United 
States magistrate'' pursuant to section 321 of Pub. L. 101-650, set out 
as a note under section 631 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial 
Procedure. Previously, ``United States magistrate'' substituted for 
``United States commissioner'' pursuant to Pub. L. 90-578. See chapter 
43 (Sec. 631 et seq.) of Title 28.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 134, 134e, 134f, 134g, 134h, 
136a of this title; title 16 section 1540.
