[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: 9CFR325.20]

[Page 329-330]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 325--TRANSPORTATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 325.20  Transportation and other transactions concerning dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock, and parts of carcasses of livestock that died 
          otherwise than by slaughter.

    No person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or 
transporting in commerce, or importing any dead, dying, disabled or 
diseased animals or parts of the carcasses of any animals that died 
otherwise than by slaughter shall:
    (a) Buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or transportation, in 
commerce, or import any dead livestock if its hide or skin has been 
removed;
    (b) Sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive 
for transportation, in commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased 
livestock, or parts of the carcasses of any livestock that died 
otherwise than by slaughter, unless such livestock and parts are 
consigned and delivered, without avoidable delay, to establishments of 
animal food manufacturers, renderers, or collection stations that are 
registered as required by part 320 of this subchapter, or to official 
establishments that operate under Federal inspection, or to 
establishments that operate under a State or Territorial inspection 
system approved by the Secretary as one that imposes requirements at 
least equal to the Federal requirements for purposes of paragraph 301(c) 
of the Act; \4\
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    \4\ A list of such registrants, States, and amendments thereof, will 
be published in the Federal Register, and information concerning the 
registration status of particular animal food manufacturers, renderers, 
or collection stations, or the status of particular States or 
Territories may also be obtained from the Director, Administrative 
Management Staff, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.
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    (c) Buy in commerce or import any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased 
livestock or parts of the carcasses of any livestock that died otherwise 
than by slaughter, unless he is an animal food manufacturer or renderer 
and is registered as required by part 320 of this subchapter, or is the 
operator of an establishment inspected as required by paragraph (b) of 
this section and such livestock or parts of carcasses are to be 
delivered to establishments eligible to receive them under paragraph (b) 
of this section;
    (d) Unload en route to any establishment eligible to receive them 
under paragraph (b) of this section, any dead, dying, disabled, or 
diseased livestock or parts of the carcasses of any livestock that died 
otherwise than by slaughter, which are transported in commerce or 
imported by any such person: Provided, That any such dead, dying, 
disabled, or diseased livestock, or parts of carcasses may be unloaded 
from a means of conveyance en route where necessary in case of a wreck 
or otherwise extraordinary emergency, and may be reloaded into another 
means of conveyance; but in all such cases, the carrier shall 
immediately report the facts by telegraph or telephone to the Compliance 
Staff, Meat and Poultry Inspection Field Operations, Food Safety and 
Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 
20250.
    (e) Load into any means of conveyance containing any dead, dying, 
disabled, or diseased livestock, or parts of the carcasses of any 
livestock that died otherwise than by slaughter, while in the course of 
importation or other transportation in commerce any livestock or parts 
of carcasses not within

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the foregoing description or any other products or other commodities.

[35 FR 15605, Oct. 3, 1970, as amended at 42 FR 42309, Aug. 23, 1977]