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7 U.S.C. § 2133 — Licensing of dealers and exhibitors
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The Secretary shall issue licenses to dealers and exhibitors upon application therefor in such form and manner as he may prescribe and upon payment of such fee established pursuant to 2153 of this title: Provided, That no such license shall be issued until the dealer or exhibitor shall have demonstrated that his facilities comply with the standards promulgated 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, however, That a dealer or exhibitor shall not be required to obtain a license as a dealer or exhibitor under this chapter if the size of the business is determined by the Secretary to be de minimis. The Secretary is further authorized to license, as dealers or exhibitors, persons who do not qualify as dealers or exhibitors within the meaning of this chapter upon such persons’ complying with the requirements specified above and agreeing, in writing, to comply with all the requirements of this chapter and the regulations promulgated by the Secretary hereunder.
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The Secretary shall issue licenses to dealers and exhibitors upon application therefor in such form and manner as he may prescribe and upon payment of such fee established pursuant to 2153 of this title: Provided, That no such license shall be issued until the dealer or exhibitor shall have demonstrated that his facilities comply with the standards promulgated 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, however, That a dealer or exhibitor shall not be required to obtain a license as a dealer or exhibitor under this chapter if the size of the business is determined by the Secretary to be de minimis. The Secretary is further authorized to license, as dealers or exhibitors, persons who do not qualify as dealers or exhibitors within the meaning of this chapter upon such persons’ complying with the requirements specified above and agreeing, in writing, to comply with all the requirements of this chapter and the regulations promulgated by the Secretary hereunder.
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**(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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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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Every research facility, every intermediate handler, every carrier, and every exhibitor not licensed under [section 2133 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2133&num=0&edition=prelim) shall register with the Secretary in accordance with such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.
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It shall be unlawful for any research facility to purchase any dog or cat from any person except an operator of an auction sale subject to [section 2142 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2142&num=0&edition=prelim) or a person holding a valid license as a dealer or exhibitor issued by the Secretary pursuant to this chapter unless such person is exempted from obtaining such license under [section 2133 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2133&num=0&edition=prelim).
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No department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States which uses animals for research or experimentation or exhibition shall purchase or otherwise acquire any dog or cat for such purposes from any person except an operator of an auction sale subject to [section 2142 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2142&num=0&edition=prelim) or a person holding a valid license as a dealer or exhibitor issued by the Secretary pursuant to this chapter unless such person is exempted from obtaining such license under [section 2133 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2133&num=0&edition=prelim).
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When construing or enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the act, omission, or failure of any person acting for or employed by a research facility, a dealer, or an exhibitor or a person licensed as a dealer or an exhibitor pursuant to the second sentence of [section 2133 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2133&num=0&edition=prelim), or an operator of an auction sale subject to [section 2142 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2142&num=0&edition=prelim), or an intermediate handler, or a carrier, within the scope of his employment or office, shall be deemed the act, omission, or failure of such research facility, dealer, exhibitor, licensee, operator of an auction sale, intermediate handler, or carrier, as well as of such person.
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 2133
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 94–279, § 3(2), substituted ‘‘in com-
merce’’ for ‘‘affecting commerce’’.
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 94–279, § 3(2), (3), made changes in
phraseology, restructured subsection and expanded def-
inition of ‘‘dealer’’ to include persons who negotiate
the purchase or sale of protected animals.
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 94–279, § 3(4), expanded definition
of ‘‘animal’’ to include dogs used for hunting, security,
or breeding purposes.
Subsecs. (i), (j). Pub. L. 94–279, § 4, added subsecs. (i)
and (j).
1970—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 91–579, § 3(1), inserted ‘‘of
the United States or his representative who shall be an
employee of the United States Department of Agri-
culture’’ after ‘‘Secretary of Agriculture’’.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 91–579, § 3(2), substituted ‘‘trade,
traffic, commerce, transportation among the several
States, or between any State’’ for ‘‘commerce between
any State’’.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 91–579, § 3(3), substituted defini-
tion of ‘‘affecting commerce’’ for definition of ‘‘dog’’.
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 91–579, § 3(3), struck out definition
of ‘‘cat’’ and substituted for it a definition of ‘‘research
facility’’ formerly set out in subsec. (f), and, in such
definition as transferred from former subsec. (f), ex-
tended the term’s meaning to include those using ‘‘ani-
mals’’ rather than only dogs and cats and allowed ex-
emptions of schools, organizations, institutions, or per-
sons which do not use live dogs or cats, with such ex-
emption to be inapplicable in the case of schools, orga-
nizations, institutions, and persons in biomedical re-
search using a substantial number of live animals.
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 91–579, § 3(3), substituted defini-
tion of ‘‘dealer’’ formerly contained in subsec. (g) for
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