[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR309.15]

[Page 104-105]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 309--ANTE-MORTEM INSPECTION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 309.15  Vesicular diseases.

    (a) Immediate notification shall be given by the inspector to the 
local, State, and Federal livestock sanitary officials having 
jurisdiction when any livestock is found to be affected with a vesicular 
disease.

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    (b) No livestock under quarantine by State or Federal livestock 
sanitary officials on account of a vesicular disease will be given ante-
mortem inspection. If no quarantine is invoked, or if quarantine is 
invoked and later removed, upon ante-mortem inspection, any animal found 
to be affected with vesicular exanthema or vesicular stomatitis in the 
acute stages, as evidenced by acute and active lesions or an elevated 
temperature, shall be identified as U.S. Condemned and disposed of in 
accordance with Sec. 309.13.