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[CITE: 21USC614]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--MEAT INSPECTION
 
   SUBCHAPTER I--INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS; ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING
 
Sec. 614. Clearance prohibited to vessel carrying animals for 
        export without inspector's certificate
        
    No clearance shall be given to any vessel having on board cattle, 
sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines for export to a 
foreign country until the owner or shipper of such cattle, sheep, swine, 
goats, horses, mules, or other equines has a certificate from the 
inspector authorized to be appointed, stating that the said cattle, 
sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines are sound and 
healthy, or unless the Secretary shall have waived the requirement of 
such certificate for export to the particular country to which such 
cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines are to be 
exported.

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, Sec. 14, formerly 12th par., 34 Stat. 
1263; renumbered Sec. 14 and amended Pub. L. 90-201, Secs. 1, 3(b), 
12(a), Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 584, 588, 592.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 82 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1967--Pub. L. 90-201, Secs. 3(b), 12(a), struck out ``of 
Agriculture'' after ``Secretary'' and included horses, mules, or other 
equines in the list of animals, respectively.


                    Effective Date of 1967 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 90-201 effective Dec. 15, 1967, except that 
with respect to equines (other than horses) and their carcasses and 
parts thereof, meat, and meat food products thereof, amendment effective 
upon expiration of sixty days after Dec. 15, 1967, see section 20(b) of 
Pub. L. 90-201, set out as an Effective Date note under section 601 of 
this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 16 section 1540.
