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[CITE: 7USC2142]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
    CHAPTER 54--TRANSPORTATION, SALE, AND HANDLING OF CERTAIN ANIMALS
 
Sec. 2142. Humane standards and recordkeeping requirements at 
        auction sales
        
    The Secretary is authorized to promulgate humane standards and 
recordkeeping requirements governing the purchase, handling, or sale of 
animals, in commerce, by dealers, research facilities, and exhibitors at 
auction sales and by the operators of such auction sales. The Secretary 
is also authorized to require the licensing of operators of auction 
sales where any dogs or cats are sold, in commerce, under such 
conditions as he may prescribe, and upon payment of such fee as 
prescribed by the Secretary under section 2153 of this title.

(Pub. L. 89-544, Sec. 12, Aug. 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 351; Pub. L. 91-579, 
Sec. 13, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1562; Pub. L. 94-279, Sec. 5, Apr. 22, 
1976, 90 Stat. 418.)


                               Amendments

    1976--Pub. L. 94-279 substituted ``in commerce'' for ``affecting 
commerce'' in two places.
    1970--Pub. L. 91-579 extended requirements for recordkeeping and 
humane standards to exhibitors and operators of auction sales, with such 
requirements to apply to animals as defined instead of only to cats and 
dogs when transactions in auction sales are affecting commerce, and 
required operators of auction sales to obtain a license when he sells 
cats or dogs and such transactions are affecting commerce, upon payment 
of fee prescribed by the Secretary.


                    Effective Date of 1970 Amendment

    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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2135, 2137, 2138, 2139, 
2146, 2147, 2149 of this title.