[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: 9CFR89.3]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 89--STATEMENT OF POLICY UNDER THE TWENTY-EIGHT HOUR LAW--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 89.3  Feeding, watering, and resting livestock in the car.

    (a) Livestock should be unloaded into pens of the character 
described in Sec. 89.5(a) for feeding, watering, and resting, unless 
there is ample room in the car for all of the animals to lie down at the 
same time.
    (b) If livestock are watered in the car, adequate facilities should 
be provided and ample water furnished to insure all the animals an 
opportunity to

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drink their fill. In the case of hogs, water should be available for not 
less than 1 hour.
    (c) Livestock unloaded for feed and water and returned to the car 
for rest should be allowed to remain in the pens not less than 2 hours.
    (d) Livestock unloaded for water and returned to the car for feed 
and rest should be allowed to remain in the pens not less than 1 hour.
    (e) When livestock are fed in the car, the feed should be evenly 
distributed throughout the car.