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Title 9-Animals and Animal
Products
CHAPTER I—Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of
Agriculture
Part
1
CHAPTER ¤-Packers and Stockyards Administration, Department of Agri-
culture
201
CHAPTER III-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (Meat and
Poultry Products), Department of Agriculture
301
CHAPTER IV—Agricultural Research Service, Department of Agriculture .
445
NOTE: Other regulations issued by the Department of Agriculture appear in Title 7, Title 17, Chapter I, Title 36, Chapter II, and Title 41, Chapter 4.
CHAPTER I-ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPEC- TION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 1
NOTE: Nomenclature changes affecting Subchapters A through J of this Chapter appear at 37 F.R. 7493, Apr. 15, 1972.
2
3
4
SUBCHAPTER A-ANIMAL WELFARE
Definition of terms.
Regulations.
Standards.
Rules of practice governing proceedings under the Laboratory Animal
Welfare Act.
11 Horse protection regulations.
SUBCHAPTER B-COOPERATIVE CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF LIVESTOCK
OR POULTRY DISEASES
51 Cattle destroyed because of brucellosis (Bang's Disease), tuberculosis or
paratuberculosis.
52 Dourine in horses and asses.
333
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54
55
Foot-and-mouth disease, pleuropneumonia, rinderpest, and certain other
communicable diseases of livestock or poultry.
Animals destroyed because of scrapie.
Cattle destroyed because of anaplasmosis.
56 Swine destroyed because of hog cholera.
SUBCHAPTER C—INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF ANIMALS [INCLUD-
ING POULTRY] AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS; EXTRAORDINARY EMERGENCY
REGULATION OF INTRASTATE ACTIVITIES
75
76
77
Communicable diseases in horses, asses, mules, and zebras.
Hog cholera and other communicable swine diseases.
Tuberculosis in cattle.
137 F.R. 7493, Apr. 15, 1972.
SUBCHAPTER C-continued
78
79
80
81
Brucellosis.
Scrapie in sheep.
Paratuberculosis in domestic animals.
European fowl pest and similar poultry diseases.
82 Psittacosis or ornithosis in poultry.
83
89
90
Screwworms.
Statement of policy under the Twenty-Eight Hour Law.
Extraordinary emergency regulations.
SUBCHAPTER D-EXPORTATION AND IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS (IN-
CLUDING POULTRY) AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
91 Inspection and handling of livestock for exportation.
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94
95
96
97
Importation of certain animals and poultry and certain animal and poultry
products; inspection and other requirements for certain means of convey-
ance and shipping containers thereon.
Rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease, fowl pest (fowl plague), Newcastle
disease (avian pneumonencephalitis), and African swine fever, and hog
cholera: prohibited and restricted importations.
Sanitary control of animal byproducts (except casings), and hay and straw,
offered for entry into the United States.
Restriction of importations of foreign animal casings offered for entry into
the United States.
Overtime services relating to imports and exports.
SUBCHAPTER E-VIRUSES, SERUMS, TOXINS, AND ANALOGOUS
PRODUCTS; ORGANISMS AND VECTORS
101 General provisions.
102 Licenses and permits for biological products.
103 Experimental production, distribution, and evaluation of biological products
prior to licensing.
108 Sanitation at licensed establishments.
109 Sterilization and Pasteurization at licensed establishments.
SUBCHAPTER F-[RESERVED]
SUBCHAPTER G -ANIMAL BREEDS
151 Recognition of breeds and books of record of purebred animals.
SUBCHAPTER H-VOLUNTARY INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATION SERVICE
156 Inspection and certification of animal byproducts
SUBCHAPTER I-ACCREDITATION OF VETERINARIANS AND SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF SUCH ACCREDITATION
160 Definition of terms.
161 Requirements and standards for accredited veterinarians and suspension or revocation of such accreditation.
162 Rules of practice.
SUBCHAPTER J-PUBLIC INFORMATION
165 Availability of information.
SUBCHAPTER A-ANIMAL WELFARE 1
For the purposes of this subchapter,
the following terms shall be construed,
respectively, to mean:
(a) "Act" means the Act of August 24,
1966 (Public Law 89-544), commonly
known as the Laboratory Animal Wel-
fare Act, as amended by the Act of De-
cember 24, 1970 (Public Law 91-579), the
Animal Welfare Act of 1970.
(b) "Department" means the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
(c) "Secretary" means the Secretary
of Agriculture of the United States or
his representative who shall be an em-
ployee of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
(d) "Veterinary Services" means the
office of the Animal and Plant Health
Service to which is assigned responsibility
for the performance of functions under
the Act.
(e) "Deputy Administrator" means
the Deputy Administrator for the Veter-
inary Services or any other official of
Veterinary Services to whom authority
has heretofore been delegated or to whom
authority may hereafter be delegated, to
act in his stead.
(f) "Veterinarian in Charge" means a
veterinarian of the Veterinary Services
who is assigned by the Deputy Adminis-
trator to supervise and perform the offi-
cial work of Veterinary Services in a
given State and who reports directly to
the Deputy Administrator. As used in
Part 2 of this subchapter, the Veteri-
narian in Charge shall be deemed to be
the one in charge of the official work of
Veterinary Services in the State in which
the dealer, exhibitor, research facility,
or operator of an auction sale has his
principal place of business."
(g) "Veterinary Services representa-
tive" means any inspector or other per-
son employed full time by the Depart-
ment who is responsible for the perform-
ance of the function involved.
(h) "State" means a State, the Dis-
trict of Columbia, Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, or a territory or possession
of the United States.
(i) "Person" means any individual,
partnership, firm, joint stock company,
corporation, association, trust, estate, or
other legal entity.
(j) "Dog" means any live or dead dog
(Canis familiaris).
(k) "Cat" means any live or dead cat
(Felis catus).
(1) "Animal" means any live or dead
dog, cat, monkey (nonhuman primate
mammal), guinea pig, hamster, rabbit,
or any other warmblooded animal, which
is domesticated or raised in captivity or
which normally can be found in the wild
state, and is being used, or is intended for
use, for research, testing, experimenta-
tion, or exhibition purposes or as a pet.
Such term excludes birds, aquatic ani-
mals, rats and mice, and horses and other
farm animals, such as, but not limited to
livestock or poultry, used or intended for
use as food or fiber, or livestock or
poultry, used or intended for use for im-
proving animal nutrition, breeding, man-
agement or production efficiency, or for
improving the quality of food or fiber.
2 The name and address of the Veterinarian
in Charge in the State concerned can be ob-
tained by writing to the Deputy Administra-
tor, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Hyattsville, Md. 20782.