[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: 9CFR53.10]

[Page 164]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 53--FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE, PLEUROPNEUMONIA, RINDERPEST, AND CERTAIN OTHER COMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF LIVESTOCK OR POULTRY--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 53.10  Claims not allowed.

    (a) The Department will not allow claims arising under the terms of 
this part if the payee has not complied with all quarantine 
requirements.
    (b) Expenses for the care and feeding of animals held for 
destruction will not be paid by the Department, unless the payment of 
such expense is specifically authorized or approved by the 
Administrator.
    (c) The Department will not allow claims arising out of the 
destruction of animals or materials unless they shall have been 
appraised as prescribed in this part and the owners thereof shall have 
executed a written agreement to the appraisals.
    (d) The Department will not allow claims arising out of the 
destruction of animals or materials which have been moved or handled by 
the owner thereof or its officer, employee, or agent, acting within the 
scope of his or its office, employment or agency, in violation of a law 
or regulation administered by the Secretary for the prevention of the 
introduction into or the dissemination within the United States of any 
communicable disease of livestock or poultry for which the animal or 
material was destroyed, or in violation of a law or regulation for the 
enforcement of which the Secretary enters or has entered into a 
cooperative agreement for the control and eradication of such disease.

[28 FR 5935, June 13, 1963, as amended at 45 FR 86411, Dec. 31, 1980; 56 
FR 51974]