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[CITE: 21USC135a]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 135a. Smuggling penalties


(a) Criminal penalty

    The provisions and penalties of section 545 of title 18 shall apply 
to the bringing of animals to the quarantine station or the subsequent 
movement of animals to other parts of the United States, including 
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands, contrary to the conditions 
prescribed by the Secretary in regulations issued hereunder.

(b) Civil penalty

    Any person who brings any animal to the quarantine station or moves 
any animal from the quarantine station, contrary to the conditions 
prescribed by the Secretary in regulations issued hereunder, may be 
assessed a civil penalty by the Secretary not to exceed $1,000. 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.

(Pub. L. 91-239, Sec. 2, May 6, 1970, 84 Stat. 202; Pub. L. 97-461, 
Sec. 9, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2525.)


                               Amendments

    1983--Pub. L. 97-461 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsec. (b).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 135, 135b of this title; 
title 16 section 1540.
