Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Chapter 12 — Meat Inspection
§ 616. Inspectors of carcasses, etc., meat of which is intended for export; certificates of condition
Statutory text
For the purpose of section 615 of this title the Secretary may appoint inspectors who shall be authorized to give an official certificate stating the condition in which said cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, and the meat thereof, are found.
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. 59–2907 · 34 Stat. 1256
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 616
Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 16, formerly 14th par., 34 Stat. 1263
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 16, formerly 14th par., 34 Stat. 1263Pub. L. 90–201 · 81 Stat. 584
Struck · 21 U.S.C. § 616
Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 3(b), 12(a), struck out “of Agriculture” after “Secretary”, and included horses, mules, or other equines in the list of animals
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 3(b), 12(a), struck out “of Agriculture” after “Secretary”, and included horses, mules, or other equines in the list of animals.Effective date note
Amendment by Pub. L. 90–201 effective Dec. 15, 1967, except that with respect to equines (other than horses) and their carcasses and parts thereof, meat, and meat food products thereof, amendment effective upon expiration of sixty days after Dec. 15, 1967, see section 20(b) of Pub. L. 90–201, set out as an Effective Date note under section 601 of this title.
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Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 84 of this title.
Amendments
1967—Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 3(b), 12(a), struck out “of Agriculture” after “Secretary”, and included horses, mules, or other equines in the list of animals.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1967 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 90–201 effective , except that with respect to equines (other than horses) and their carcasses and parts thereof, meat, and meat food products thereof, amendment effective upon expiration of sixty days after , see section 20(b) of Pub. L. 90–201, set out as an Effective Date note under section 601 of this title.
Credits
1907–1967 · 2 acts
- 1907Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 16, formerly 14th par., 34 Stat. 1263
- 1967renumbered § 16 and amended Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 1, 3(b), 12(a), , 81 Stat. 584, 588, 592.
Show as published
(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 16, formerly 14th par., 34 Stat. 1263; renumbered § 16 and amended Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 1, 3(b), 12(a), , 81 Stat. 584, 588, 592.)