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7 U.S.C. § 2154 — Effective dates

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7 U.S.C. § 2154 — Effective dates

The regulations referred to in sections 2140 and 2143 of this title shall be prescribed by the Secretary as soon as reasonable but not later than six months from August 24, 1966. Additions and amendments thereto may be prescribed from time to time as may be necessary or advisable. Compliance by dealers with the provisions of this chapter and such regulations shall commence ninety days after the promulgation of such regulations. Compliance by research facilities with the provisions of this chapter and such regulations shall commence six months after the promulgation of such regulations, except that the Secretary may grant extensions of time to research facilities which do not comply with the standards prescribed by the Secretary pursuant to [section 2143 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2143&num=0&edition=prelim) provided that the Secretary determines that there is evidence that the research facilities will meet such standards within a reasonable time. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, compliance by intermediate handlers, and carriers, and other persons with those provisions of this chapter, as amended by the Animal Welfare Act Amendments of 1976, and those regulations promulgated thereunder, which relate to actions of intermediate handlers and carriers, shall commence 90 days after promulgation of regulations under [section 2143 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2143&num=0&edition=prelim), as amended, with respect to intermediate handlers and carriers, and such regulations shall be promulgated no later than 9 months after April 22, 1976; and compliance by dealers, exhibitors, operators of auction sales, and research facilities with other p

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7 U.S.C. § 2156 — Animal fighting venture prohibition

**(a) Sponsoring or exhibiting an animal in, attending, or causing an individual who has not attained the age of 16 to attend, an animal fighting venture** (1) **Sponsoring or exhibiting** — It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly sponsor or exhibit an animal in an animal fighting venture. (2) **Attending or causing an individual who has not attained the age of 16 to attend** — It shall be unlawful for any person to— (A) knowingly attend an animal fighting venture; or (B) knowingly cause an individual who has not attained the age of 16 to attend an animal fighting venture. **(b) Buying, selling, delivering, possessing, training, or transporting animals for participation in animal fighting venture** It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, buy, possess, train, transport, deliver, or receive any animal for purposes of having the animal participate in an animal fighting venture. **(c) Use of Postal Service or other interstate instrumentality for promoting or furthering animal fighting venture** It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly use the mail service of the United States Postal Service or any instrumentality of interstate commerce for commercial speech for purposes of advertising an animal, or an instrument described in subsection (d), for use in an animal fighting venture, promoting 11 So in original. Probably should be preceded by “or”. or in any other manner furthering an animal fighting venture except as performed outside the limits of the States of the United States. **(d) Buying, selling, delivering, or transporting sharp instruments for use in animal fighting venture** It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, buy, transport, or deliver in interstate or foreign commerce a knife, a gaff, or any other sharp i

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7 U.S.C. § 2150 — Repealed. Pub. L. 94–279, § 14, Apr. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 421

### Statutory Notes Section, Pub. L. 89–544, § 20, Aug. 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 353; Pub. L. 91–579, § 21, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1565, provided for issuance of cease and desist orders if Secretary had reason to believe that any research facility had violated any provision of this chapter, provided for a civil penalty, and provided appeal mechanism by which aggrieved person may have judicial review of such final order by Secretary. See [section 2149 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2149&num=0&edition=prelim).

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39 U.S.C. § 3001 — Nonmailable matter

**(a)** Matter the deposit of which in the mails is punishable under section 1302, 1341, 1342, 1461, 1463, 1715, 1716, 1717, or 1738 11 See References in Text note below. of title 18, or section 26 of the Animal Welfare Act is nonmailable. **(b)** Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, nonmailable matter which reaches the office of delivery, or which may be seized or detained for violation of law, shall be disposed of as the Postal Service shall direct. **(c)** (1) Matter which— (A) exceeds the size and weight limits prescribed for the particular class of mail; or (B) is of a character perishable within the period required for transportation and delivery; is nonmailable. (2) Matter made nonmailable by this subsection which reaches the office of destination may be delivered in accordance with its address, if the party addressed furnishes the name and address of the sender. **(d)** Matter otherwise legally acceptable in the mails which— (1) is in the form of, and reasonably could be interpreted or construed as, a bill, invoice, or statement of account due; but (2) constitutes, in fact, a solicitation for the order by the addressee of goods or services, or both; is nonmailable matter, shall not be carried or delivered by mail, and shall be disposed of as the Postal Service directs, unless such matter bears on its face, in conspicuous and legible type in contrast by typography, layout, or color with other printing on its face, in accordance with regulations which the Postal Service shall prescribe— (A) the following notice: “This is a solicitation for the order of goods or services, or both, and not a bill, invoice, or statement of account due. You are under no obligation to make any payments on account of this offer unless you accept this off

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7 U.S.C. § 3121 — Responsibilities of Secretary and Department of Agriculture

The Department of Agriculture is designated as the lead agency of the Federal Government for agricultural research (except with respect to the biomedical aspects of human nutrition concerned with diagnosis or treatment of disease), extension, and teaching in the food and agricultural sciences, and the Secretary, in carrying out the Secretary’s responsibilities, shall— (1) establish jointly with the Secretary of Health and Human Services procedures for coordination with respect to nutrition research in areas of mutual interest; (2) keep informed of developments in, and the Nation’s need for, research, extension, teaching, and manpower development in the food and agricultural sciences and represent such need in deliberations within the Department of Agriculture, elsewhere within the executive branch of the United States Government, and with the several States and their designated land-grant colleges and universities, other colleges and universities, agricultural and related industries, and other interested institutions and groups; (3) coordinate all agricultural research, extension, and teaching activity conducted or financed by the Department of Agriculture and, to the maximum extent practicable, by other agencies of the executive branch of the United States Government; (4) take the initiative in establishing coordination of State-Federal cooperative agricultural research, extension, and teaching programs, funded in whole or in part by the Department of Agriculture in each State, through the administrative heads of land-grant colleges and universities and the State directors of agricultural experiment stations and cooperative extension services, and other appropriate program administrators; (5) consult the Advisory Board and appropriate advisory committees of the De

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7 U.S.C. § 2143 — Standards and certification process for humane handling, care, treatment, and transportation of animals

**(a) Promulgation of standards, rules, regulations, and orders; requirements; research facilities; State authority** (1) The Secretary shall promulgate standards to govern the humane handling, care, treatment, and transportation of animals by dealers, research facilities, and exhibitors. (2) The standards described in paragraph (1) shall include minimum requirements— (A) for handling, housing, feeding, watering, sanitation, ventilation, shelter from extremes of weather and temperatures, adequate veterinary care, and separation by species where the Secretary finds necessary for humane handling, care, or treatment of animals; and (B) for exercise of dogs, as determined by an attending veterinarian in accordance with general standards promulgated by the Secretary, and for a physical environment adequate to promote the psychological well-being of primates. (3) In addition to the requirements under paragraph (2), the standards described in paragraph (1) shall, with respect to animals in research facilities, include requirements— (A) for animal care, treatment, and practices in experimental procedures to ensure that animal pain and distress are minimized, including adequate veterinary care with the appropriate use of anesthetic, analgesic, tranquilizing drugs, or euthanasia; (B) that the principal investigator considers alternatives to any procedure likely to produce pain to or distress in an experimental animal; (C) in any practice which could cause pain to animals— (i) that a doctor of veterinary medicine is consulted in the planning of such procedures; (ii) for the use of tranquilizers, analgesics, and anesthetics; (iii) for pre-surgical and post-surgical care by laboratory workers, in accordance with established veterinary medical and nur

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7 U.S.C. § 2131 — Congressional statement of policy

The Congress finds that animals and activities which are regulated under this chapter are either in interstate or foreign commerce or substantially affect such commerce or the free flow thereof, and that regulation of animals and activities as provided in this chapter is necessary to prevent and eliminate burdens upon such commerce and to effectively regulate such commerce, in order— (1) to insure that animals intended for use in research facilities or for exhibition purposes or for use as pets are provided humane care and treatment; (2) to assure the humane treatment of animals during transportation in commerce; and (3) to protect the owners of animals from the theft of their animals by preventing the sale or use of animals which have been stolen. The Congress further finds that it is essential to regulate, as provided in this chapter, the transportation, purchase, sale, housing, care, handling, and treatment of animals by carriers or by persons or organizations engaged in using them for research or experimental purposes or for exhibition purposes or holding them for sale as pets or for any such purpose or use.

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7 U.S.C. § 2154 — Effective dates

Page 1420 TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE § 2150 eral, may be conducted, at both trial and upon appeal to district court, by attorneys of the United States Department of Agriculture. (Pub. L. 89–544, § 19, Aug. 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 352; Pub. L. 91–579, § 20, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1564; Pub. L. 94–279, § 13, Apr. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 420; Pub. L. 99–198, title XVII, § 1755, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1650; Pub. L. 101–650, title III, § 321, Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5117; Pub. L. 110–234, title XIV, § 14214, May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1466; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XIV, § 14214, June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2228.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical amendments to this section. The amendments by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246. AMENDMENTS Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 110–246, § 14214, substituted ‘‘$10,000’’ for ‘‘$2,500’’. 1985—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–198, § 1755(a), substituted ‘‘$2,500 for each such violation’’ for ‘‘$1,000 for each such violation’’ in first sentence and directed the substi- tution of ‘‘$1,500 for each offense’’ for ‘‘$500 for each of- fense’’ in sixth sentence, which was executed to the seventh sentence as the probable intent of Congress. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 99–198, § 1755(b), substituted ‘‘$2,500’’ for ‘‘$1,000’’. 1976—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94–279 substituted provi- sions covering violations by licensees, temporary li- cense suspension, notice and hearing, and license rev- ocation for provisions relating to violations by dealers, exhibitors, operators of auction sales, cease and desist orders, license suspension, and civil penalties. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94–279 substituted provisions cov- ering civil penalties, notice and hearing, appeal, con- siderations in assessing

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