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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Chapter 4 — Animals, Meats, and Meat and Dairy Products

§ 149. Definitions

Statutory text

When used in this subchapter—

(a)

The term “person” means an individual, partnership, association, or corporation.

(b)

The term “United States” means the fifty States and the District of Columbia.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 69–155 § 9 · 44 Stat. 300

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 149

    Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 9, 44 Stat. 1103

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 9, 44 Stat. 1103

  2. Alaska Omnibus Act

    Pub. L. 86–70 § 19 · 73 Stat. 141

    Inserted · 21 U.S.C. § 149(b)

    Pub. L. 86–70 inserted “, including Alaska” after “continental United States”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86–70 inserted “, including Alaska” after “continental United States”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 19. importation of milk and cream Subsection (b) of section 9 of the Act of February 15, 1927 (21 U.S.C. 149(b)), is amended by inserting the words, including 44 Stat. 1103. Alaska” immediately following the words “continental United States”.

  3. Hawaii Omnibus Act

    Pub. L. 86–624 § 15 · 74 Stat. 411

    Substituted · 21 U.S.C. § 149(b)

    Pub. L. 86–624 substituted “means the fifty States and the District of Columbia” for “means continental United States, including Alaska”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86–624 substituted “means the fifty States and the District of Columbia” for “means continental United States, including Alaska”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 15. importation of milk and cream Subsection (b) of section 9 of the Act of February 15, 1927 (44 Stat. 1103), as amended, is amended to read: 21 USC 149. “(b) The term ‘United States’ means the fifty States and the District of Columbia.”

2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments1959–1960 · 2 rounds

1960

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86–624 substituted “means the fifty States and the District of Columbia” for “means continental United States, including Alaska”.

1959

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86–70 inserted “, including Alaska” after “continental United States”.

Credits

1927–1960 · 3 acts
  1. 1927Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 9, 44 Stat. 1103
  2. 1959Pub. L. 86–70, § 19, , 73 Stat. 145
  3. 1960Pub. L. 86–624, § 15, , 74 Stat. 415.
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(Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 9, 44 Stat. 1103; Pub. L. 86–70, § 19, , 73 Stat. 145; Pub. L. 86–624, § 15, , 74 Stat. 415.)

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