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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.

  1. 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. 1263

  2. Pub. 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
  1. 1907Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 16, formerly 14th par., 34 Stat. 1263
  2. 1967renumbered § 16 and amended Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 1, 3(b), 12(a), , 81 Stat. 584, 588, 592.
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(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.)

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