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PUBLIC LAW 87-518-JULY 2, 1962

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regulation administered b}^ the Secretary for the prevention of the introduction or dissemination of any communicable animal disease; and (3) to enter upon, with a warrant, any premises for the purpose of making inspections and seizures necessary under such laws and regulations. Any Federal jud^e, or any judge of a court of record in the United States, or any United States commissioner, may, within his jurisdiction, upon proper oath or affirmation indicating probable cause to believe that there is on certain premises any animal, carcass, product, or article regulated or subject to disposal under any law or regulation administered by the Secretary for the prevention of the introduction or dissemination of any communicable animal disease, issue warrants for the entry upon such premises and for inspections and seizures necessary under such laws and regulations. Such warrants may be executed by any authorized employee of the Department of Agriculture. SEC. 6. (a) Whoever knowingly violates any regulation promul- Penalties, gated pursuant to the provisions of sections 1 through 5 of this Act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both. (b) The Secretary may bring an action to enjoin the violation of, Enforcement or to compel compliance with, any regulation promulgated or order provisions, issued under said sections, or to enjoin any interference by any person with an employee of the Department of Agriculture in carrying out any duties under said sections, whenever the Secretary has reason to believe that such person has violated, or is about to violate, any such regulation or order, or has interfered, or is about to interfere, with any such employee. Such action shall be brought in the United States district court, or the United States court of any Territory or possession, for the judicial district in which such person resides or transacts business or in which the violation, omission, or interference has occurred or is about to occur. Process in such cases may be served in any judicial district wherein the defendant resides or transacts business or wherever the defendant may be found, and subpenas for witnesses who are required to attend the court in any judicial district in any such cases may run into any other judicial district. SEC. 7. Section 11 of the Act of May 29, 1884 (58 Stat. 734),'as amended (21 U.S.C. 114a), is further amended by inserting the words 70 Stat. 1032. "any communicable diseases of livestock or poultry, including, but not limited to," after the word "eradicate". SEC. 8. (a) The first section of the Act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 1264), as amended (21 U.S.C. 123), is further amended by striking out the phrase "cattle or other livestock" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "any animals", and by inserting after the word "disease" the words "of livestock or poultry or that the contagion of any such disease exists or that vectors which may disseminate any such disease exist in such State or Territory or the District of Columbia". (b) Sections 2, 3, and 4 of such Act (33 Stat. 1264, 1265), as amended (21 U.S.C. 124, 125, 126), are further amended by striking out the phrase "cattle or other livestock" each time such phrase appears in those sections and inserting in lieu thereof the words "quarantined animals". SEC. 9. The first proviso under the heading "General Expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen", approved June 30, 1914 (38 Stat. 419), as amended (21 U.S.C. 128), is further amended by striking out the phrase "cattle or other livestock" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "quarantined animals".

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