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[CITE: 7USC2140]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
    CHAPTER 54--TRANSPORTATION, SALE, AND HANDLING OF CERTAIN ANIMALS
 
Sec. 2140. Recordkeeping by dealers, exhibitors, research 
        facilities, intermediate handlers, and carriers
        
    Dealers and exhibitors shall make and retain for such reasonable 
period of time as the Secretary may prescribe, such records with respect 
to the purchase, sale, transportation, identification, and previous 
ownership of animals as the Secretary may prescribe. Research facilities 
shall make and retain such records only with respect to the purchase, 
sale, transportation, identification, and previous ownership of live 
dogs and cats. At the request of the Secretary, any regulatory agency of 
the Federal Government which requires records to be maintained by 
intermediate handlers and carriers with respect to the transportation, 
receiving, handling, and delivery of animals on forms prescribed by the 
agency, shall require there to be included in such forms, and 
intermediate handlers and carriers shall include in such forms, such 
information as the Secretary may require for the effective 
administration of this chapter. Such information shall be retained for 
such reasonable period of time as the Secretary may prescribe. If 
regulatory agencies of the Federal Government do not prescribe 
requirements for any such forms, intermediate handlers and carriers 
shall make and retain for such reasonable period  as  the  Secretary  
may  prescribe  such records with respect to the transportation, 
receiving, handling, and delivery of animals as the Secretary may 
prescribe. Such records shall be made available at all reasonable times 
for inspection and copying by the Secretary.

(Pub. L. 89-544, Sec. 10, Aug. 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 351; Pub. L. 91-579, 
Sec. 11, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1562; Pub. L. 94-279, Sec. 8, Apr. 22, 
1976, 90 Stat. 418.)


                               Amendments

    1976--Pub. L. 94-279 struck out ``, upon forms supplied by the 
Secretary'' after ``ownership of animals as the Secretary may 
prescribe'' and inserted provisions dealing with the records required to 
be maintained by intermediate handlers and carriers relating to the 
transportation, receiving, handling and delivery of animals.
    1970--Pub. L. 91-579 extended recordkeeping requirements to include 
exhibitors and to include animals, as defined, rather than only dogs and 
cats, except that research facilities shall continue to keep required 
records only for live 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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2143, 2146, 2154 of this 
title.
