§115. Transportation of diseased livestock and live poultry prohibited

No railroad company within the United States, or the owners or masters of any steam or sailing or other vessel or boat, shall receive for transportation or transport from one State or Territory to another, or from any State into the District of Columbia, or from the District into any State, any livestock and/or live poultry affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and especially the disease known as pleuropneumonia; nor shall any person, company, or corporation deliver for such transportation to any railroad company, or master or owner of any boat or vessel, any livestock and/or live poultry, knowing them to be affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease; nor shall any person, company, or corporation drive on foot, or transport in private conveyance from one State or Territory to another, or from any State into the District of Columbia, or from the District into any State, any livestock and/or live poultry, knowing them to be affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and especially the disease known as pleuropneumonia: Provided, That such livestock or poultry may be so delivered and received for such transportation and so transported and moved if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that such action will not endanger the livestock or poultry of the United States and authorizes such action, and such delivery, receipt, transportation, and movement are made in strict compliance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe to protect the livestock and poultry of the United States.

(May 29, 1884, ch. 60, §6, 23 Stat. 32 ; June 28, 1926, ch. 700, §1, 44 Stat. 774 ; Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59 ; Oct. 9, 1962, Pub. L. 87–763, 76 Stat. 762 .)

Codification

Act May 29, 1884, as amended by act June 28, 1926, also contained the following proviso: "That until May 1, 1928, cattle infested with or exposed to cattle fever ticks may be shipped in interstate commerce for immediate slaughter after one dipping in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe."

Amendments

1962-Pub. L. 87–763 inserted proviso permitting such livestock or poultry to be delivered and received for transportation and so transported and moved if the Secretary determines that such action will not endanger the livestock or poultry of the United States and authorizes such action, and such delivery, receipt, transportation, and movement are made in strict compliance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe.

1928-Act Feb. 7, 1928, inserted "and/or live poultry" after "livestock" wherever appearing.

1926-Act June 28, 1926, struck out provision deeming splenetic or Texas fever not a communicable disease as to cattle unloaded only to be fed and watered on the way by rail to market for slaughter.

Section Referred to in Other Sections

This section is referred to in sections 113, 114, 117, 118, 119, 136a of this title; title 16 section 1540.