§114g. Hog cholera eradication program

In order to safeguard the health of the swine herds of the Nation, to prevent the spread of hog cholera, to decrease substantially the estimated $50,000,000 annual loss from hog cholera, to expand export markets for pork and pork products now restricted on account of hog cholera, and to otherwise protect the public interest, the Secretary of Agriculture is directed (1) to initiate a national hog cholera eradication program in cooperation with the several States under the provisions of section 114a of this title and related legislation, and (2) to prohibit or restrict, pursuant to the authority vested in him under the provisions of section 111 of this title the interstate movement of virulent hog cholera virus or other hog cholera virus to the extent he determines necessary in order to effectuate such eradication program.

( Pub. L. 87–209, §1, Sept. 6, 1961, 75 Stat. 481 .)

Section Referred to in Other Sections

This section is referred to in sections 114h, 136a of this title; title 16 section 1540.