[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR50.7]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 50--ANIMALS DESTROYED BECAUSE OF TUBERCULOSIS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 50.7  Destruction of animals.

    (a) Slaughter or disposal. Cattle, bison, captive cervids, or swine 
to be destroyed because of tuberculosis must be shipped direct to 
slaughter under permit to a Federal or State inspected slaughtering 
establishment or be disposed of by rendering, burial, or incinerating in 
an approved manner under supervision of an APHIS or State employee.
    (b) Time limit for destruction of animals. Cattle, bison, captive 
cervids, or

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swine for which Federal indemnity may be paid because of tuberculosis 
must be destroyed and carcass disposal completed within 15 days after 
the date of appraisal, except that the appropriate Veterinarian in 
Charge, for reasons satisfactory to him, may extend the time limit for 
slaughter to 30 days when request for such extension is received by him 
prior to the expiration of the original 15-day period allowed, and the 
Administrator may extend the time limit for slaughter beyond 30 days, 
upon request in specific cases and for reasons satisfactory to him.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0579-0051)

[40 FR 27009, June 26, 1975, as amended at 45 FR 32287, May 16, 1980; 52 
FR 39614, Oct. 23, 1987; 56 FR 36998, Aug. 2, 1991; 60 FR 37809, July 
24, 1995; 63 FR 34264, June 24, 1998]