[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 9CFR11.5]

[Page 129-130]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 11--HORSE PROTECTION REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 11.5  Access to premises and records.

    Requirements regarding access to premises for inspection of horses 
and records are as follows:
    (a) Management. (1) The management of any horse show, horse 
exhibition, or horse sale or auction shall, without fee, charge, 
assessment, or other compensation, provide APHIS representatives with 
unlimited access to the grandstands, sale ring, barns, stables, grounds, 
offices, and all other areas of any horse show, horse exhibition, or 
horse sale or auction, including any adjacent areas under their 
direction, control, or supervision for the purpose of inspecting any 
horses, or any records required to be kept by regulation or otherwise 
maintained.
    (2) The management of any horse show, horse exhibition, or horse 
sale or

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auction shall, without fee, charge, assessment, or other compensation, 
provide APHIS representatives with an adequate, safe, and accessible 
area for the visual inspection and observation of horses while such 
horses are competitively or otherwise performing at any horse show or 
horse exhibition, or while such horses are being sold or auctioned or 
offered for sale or auction at any horse sale or horse auction.
    (b) Exhibitors. (1) Each horse owner, exhibitor, or other person 
having custody of or responsibility for any horse at any horse show, 
horse exhibition, or horse sale or auction shall, without fee, charge, 
assessment, or other compensation, admit any APHIS representative or 
Designated Qualified Person appointed by management, to all areas of 
barns, compounds, horse vans, horse trailers, stables, stalls, paddocks, 
or other show, exhibition, or sale or auction grounds or related areas 
at any horse show, horse exhibition, or horse sale or auction, for the 
purpose of inspecting any such horse at any and all reasonable times.
    (2) Each owner, trainer, exhibitor, or other person having custody 
of or responsibility for, any horse at any horse show, horse exhibition, 
or horse sale or auction shall promptly present his horse for inspection 
upon notification, orally or in writing, by any APHIS representative or 
Designated Qualified Person appointed by management, that said horse has 
been selected for examination for the purpose of determining whether 
such horse is in compliance with the Act and regulations.

[44 FR 25179, Apr. 27, 1979, as amended at 56 FR 13750, Apr. 4, 1991]