Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Chapter 12 — Meat Inspection
§ 617. Clearance prohibited to vessel carrying meat for export without inspector’s certificate
Statutory text
No clearance shall be given to any vessel having on board any fresh, salted, canned, corned, or packed beef, mutton, pork, goat or equine meat for export to and sale in a foreign country from any port in the United States, until the owner or shipper thereof shall obtain from an inspector appointed under the provisions of this chapter a certificate that the said amenable species were sound and healthy at the time of inspection, and that their meat is sound and wholesome, unless the Secretary shall have waived the requirements of such certificate for the country to which said amenable species or meats are to be exported.
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. § 617
Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 17, formerly 15th par., 34 Stat. 1263
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 17, formerly 15th par., 34 Stat. 1263Pub. L. 90–201 · 81 Stat. 584
Struck · 21 U.S.C. § 617
Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 3(b), 12(a), (g), struck out “of Agriculture” after “Secretary”, included horses, mules, and other equines in the list of animals
Substituted · 21 U.S.C. § 617
Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 3(b), 12(a), (g), substituted “goat or equine meat” for “or goat meat, being the meat of animals killed after March 4, 1907, or except as hereinbefore provided”, respectively
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 3(b), 12(a), (g), struck out “of Agriculture” after “Secretary”, included horses, mules, and other equines in the list of animals, and substituted “goat or equine meat” for “or goat meat, being the meat of animals killed after March 4, 1907, or except as hereinbefore provided”, respectively.Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006
Pub. L. 109–97 title VII § 798 · 119 Stat. 2120
Substituted · 21 U.S.C. § 617
Pub. L. 109–97 substituted “amenable species” for “cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines” in two places
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 109–97 substituted “amenable species” for “cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines” in two places.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 798. Amenable Species.— The Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) is amended— (1) 21 USC 603–605, 608, 609, 615, 617, 618, 620, 621. 21 USC 601. by striking “cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines” each place it appears and inserting “amenable species”; (2) in section 1, by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(w) The term ‘amenable species’ means— “(1) those species subject to the provisions of this Act on the day before the date of the enactment of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006; and “(2) any additional species of livestock that the Secretary considers appropriate.” ; and (3) in section 21 USC 619. 19— (A) by striking “horses, mules, or other equines” and inserting “species designated by regulations in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006”; and (B) by striking “cattle, sheep, swine, or goats” and inserting “other amenable species”. (b) Effective Date.— The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the day after the effective date of section 794 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006.Effective date note
Amendment by Pub. L. 109–97 effective the day after 120 days after Nov. 10, 2005, see section 798(b) of Pub. L. 109–97, set out as a note under section 601 of this title.
1 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 3 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 85 of this title.
Amendments1967–2005 · 2 rounds
2005
Pub. L. 109–97 substituted “amenable species” for “cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines” in two places.
1967
Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 3(b), 12(a), (g), struck out “of Agriculture” after “Secretary”, included horses, mules, and other equines in the list of animals, and substituted “goat or equine meat” for “or goat meat, being the meat of animals killed after , or except as hereinbefore provided”, respectively.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 2005 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 109–97 effective the day after 120 days after , see section 798(b) of Pub. L. 109–97, set out as a note under section 601 of this title.
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
1907–2005 · 3 acts
- 1907Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 17, formerly 15th par., 34 Stat. 1263
- 1967renumbered § 17 and amended Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 1, 3(b), 12(a), (g), , 81 Stat. 584, 588, 592
- 2005Pub. L. 109–97, title VII, § 798[(a)](1), , 119 Stat. 2166.
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(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 17, formerly 15th par., 34 Stat. 1263; renumbered § 17 and amended Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 1, 3(b), 12(a), (g), , 81 Stat. 584, 588, 592; Pub. L. 109–97, title VII, § 798[(a)](1), , 119 Stat. 2166.)