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[CITE: 7USC2134]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
    CHAPTER 54--TRANSPORTATION, SALE, AND HANDLING OF CERTAIN ANIMALS
 
Sec. 2134. Valid license for dealers and exhibitors required

    No dealer or exhibitor shall sell or offer to sell or transport or 
offer for transportation, in commerce, to any research facility or for 
exhibition or for use as a pet any animal, or buy, sell, offer to buy or 
sell, transport or offer for transportation, in commerce, to or from 
another dealer or exhibitor under this chapter any animals, unless and 
until such dealer or exhibitor shall have obtained a license from the 
Secretary and such license shall not have been suspended or revoked.

(Pub. L. 89-544, Sec. 4, Aug. 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 351; Pub. L. 91-579, 
Sec. 5, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1561; Pub. L. 94-279, Sec. 5, Apr. 22, 
1976, 90 Stat. 418.)


                               Amendments

    1976--Pub. L. 94-279 substituted ``in commerce'' for ``affecting 
commerce'' in two places.
    1970--Pub. L. 91-579 inserted references to exhibitors, offers to 
sell, and offers to transport, and substituted references to animals for 
references to dogs and cats.


                    Effective Date of 1970 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 91-579 effective one year after Dec. 24, 1970, 
see section 23 of Pub. L. 91-579, set out as a note under section 2131 
of this title.
