Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Chapter 4 — Animals, Meats, and Meat and Dairy Products
§ 101. Suspension of importation of all animals
Statutory text
Whenever, in the opinion of the President, it shall be necessary for the protection of animals in the United States against infectious or contagious diseases, he may, by proclamation, suspend the importation of all or any class of animals for a limited time, and may change, modify, revoke, or renew such proclamation, as the public good may require; and during the time of such suspension the importation of any such animals shall be unlawful.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 51–839 § 9 · 26 Stat. 414
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 101
(Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 839, § 9, 26 Stat. 416.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 839, § 9, 26 Stat. 416.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 9. That whenever, in the opinion of the President, it shall be Importation of all animals, may be suspended by proclamation. necessary for the protection of animals in the United States against FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 839–841. 1890. infectious or contagious diseases, he may, by proclamation, suspend the importation of all or any class of animals for a limited time, and may change, modify, revoke, or renew such proclamation, as the Modifications, etc. public good may require; and during the time of such suspension Importation, etc., unlawful. the importation of any such animals shall be unlawful.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 839, § 9, 26 Stat. 416.)