[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR71.4]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 71--GENERAL PROVISIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 71.4  Maintenance of certain facilities and premises in a sanitary condition required; cleaning and disinfection, when required; animals classed as ``exposed.''

    (a) Yards, pens, chutes, alleys, and other facilities and premises 
which are used in connection with the interstate movement of livestock 
or poultry shall be maintained by the person in possession of the 
facilities and premises in a clean and sanitary condition, in accordance 
with good animal husbandry practices, and shall be subject to inspection 
by an APHIS or State representative. When an APHIS or State 
representative determines that such facilities or premises are not in 
such clean and sanitary condition and gives written notice of his 
determination to such person, the facilities and premises shall be 
cleaned and disinfected in accordance with Secs. 71.7 and 71.10 through 
71.12 by such person under the supervision of an APHIS or State 
representative or an accredited veterinarian before such premises are 
again used for livestock or poultry.
    (b) Yards, pens, chutes, alleys, and other facilities and premises 
which have contained interstate shipments of

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cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, or other animals affected with, or 
carrying the infection of, any contagious, infectious, or communicable 
disease of livestock or poultry other than slight unopened cases of 
actinomycosis or actinobacillosis (or both), bovine foot rot, atrophic 
rhinitis, ram epididymitis, ringworm, infectious keratitis, and 
arthritis (simple lesions only), shall be cleaned and disinfected under 
the supervision of an APHIS or State representative or an accredited 
veterinarian in accordance with Secs. 71.7 and 71.10 through 71.12 
before such premises are again used for animals, and any poultry or 
other animals unloaded into such yards or premises before they have been 
so cleaned and disinfected shall thereafter be classed as ``exposed'' 
within the meaning of the regulations in this subchapter and shall not 
be moved interstate except in compliance with the provisions of such 
regulations applicable to ``exposed'' animals.

[34 FR 15641, Oct. 9, 1969, as amended at 55 FR 11156, Mar. 27, 1990; 55 
FR 15320, Apr. 23, 1990; 62 FR 27933, May 22, 1997]