§ 2140. Recordkeeping by dealers, exhibitors, research facilities, intermediate handlers, and carriers

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. 1966

   Pub. L. 89–544 § 10 · 80 Stat. 350

   Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2140

   Pub. L. 89–544, § 10, Aug. 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 351

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 89–544, § 10, Aug. 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 351

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 10. Research facilities and dealers shall make, and retain for Recordkeeping. such reasonable period of time as the Secretary may prescribe, such records with respect to the purchase, sale, transportation, identification, and previous ownership of dogs and cats but not monkeys, guinea pigs, hamsters, or rabbits as the Secretary may prescribe, upon forms supplied by the Secretary. Such records shall be made available at all reasonable times for inspection by the Secretary, by any Federal officer or employee designated by the Secretary.

2. 1970

   Animal Welfare Act of 1970

   Pub. L. 91–579 § 11 · 84 Stat. 1560

   Changed · 7 U.S.C. § 2140

   Pub. L. 91–579 extended recordkeeping requirements to include exhibitors and to include animals, as defined, rather than only dogs and cats, except that research facilities shall continue to keep required records only for live dogs and cats

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 91–579 extended recordkeeping requirements to include exhibitors and to include animals, as defined, rather than only dogs and cats, except that research facilities shall continue to keep required records only for live dogs and cats.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 11. Section 10 of such Act is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 10. Dealers and exhibitors shall make and retain for such reasonable period of time as the Secretary may prescribe, such records with respect to the purchase, sale, transportation, identification, and previous ownership of animals as the Secretary may prescribe, upon forms supplied by the Secretary. Research facilities shall make and retain such records only with respect to the purchase, sale, transportation, identification, and previous ownership of live dogs and cats. Such records shall be made available at all reasonable rimes for inspection and copying by the Secretary.”

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 91–579 effective one year after Dec. 24, 1970, see section 23 of Pub. L. 91–579, set out as a note under section 2131 of this title.

3. 1976

   Animal Welfare Act Amendments of 1976

   Pub. L. 94–279 § 8 · 90 Stat. 417

   Struck and inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 2140

   Pub. L. 94–279 struck out “, upon forms supplied by the Secretary” after “ownership of animals as the Secretary may prescribe” and inserted provisions dealing with the records required to be maintained by intermediate handlers and carriers relating to the transportation, receiving, handling and delivery of animals

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 94–279 struck out “, upon forms supplied by the Secretary” after “ownership of animals as the Secretary may prescribe” and inserted provisions dealing with the records required to be maintained by intermediate handlers and carriers relating to the transportation, receiving, handling and delivery of animals.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 8. Section 10 of such Act is amended by deleting the phrase “, upon forms supplied by the Secretary” from the first sentence and by inserting between the second and third sentences thereof the following: Record retention. “At the request of the Secretary, any regulatory agency of the Federal Government which requires records to be maintained by intermediate handlers and carriers with respect to the transportation, receiving, handling, and delivery of animals on forms prescribed by the agency, shall require there to be included in such forms, and intermediate handlers and carriers shall include in such forms, such information as the Secretary may require for the effective administration of this Act. Such information shall be retained for such reasonable period of time as the Secretary may prescribe. If regulatory agencies of the Federal Government do not prescribe requirements for any such forms, intermediate handlers and carriers shall make and retain for such reasonable period as the. Secretary may prescribe such records with respect to the transportation, receiving, handling, and delivery of animals as the Secretary may prescribe.”.

3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision