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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Part H · Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization

§ 453c. Disposition of equines unfit for service

Statutory text

None of the funds made available in this or any other Act for fiscal year 2012 and thereafter may be used to destroy or put out to pasture any horse or other equine belonging to any component or agency of the Department of Homeland Security that has become unfit for service, unless the trainer or handler is first given the option to take possession of the equine through an adoption program that has safeguards against slaughter and inhumane treatment.

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. Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2012

    Pub. L. 112–74 div. D title V § 526 · 125 Stat. 974

    Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 453c

    (Pub. L. 112–74, div. D, title V, § 526, Dec. 23, 2011, 125 Stat. 974.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 112–74, div. D, title V, § 526, Dec. 23, 2011, 125 Stat. 974.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 526. Section 1703 of title 41 U.S.C. is amended in paragraph (i)(6) by: (1) deleting “for training”; and (2) deleting “paragraph (2)” and inserting in lieu thereof “subparagraphs (A) and (C) to (J) of section 1122(a)(5) of this title”.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, means div. D of Pub. L. 112–74, , 125 Stat. 943, known as the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2012. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2012, and also as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012, and not as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 which comprises this chapter.

Credits

(Pub. L. 112–74, div. D, title V, § 526, , 125 Stat. 974.)

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