[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR71.16]

[Page 195]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 71--GENERAL PROVISIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 71.16  Inspection and certification of poultry or other animals for interstate movement.

    (a) Assistance and facilities. When poultry or other animals are to 
be inspected and certified by an APHIS representative, assistance and 
proper facilities for restraining them shall be provided in order that a 
careful inspection may be made, and the representative while making the 
inspection shall not be interfered with in any manner; otherwise 
inspection will be immediately discontinued.
    (b) Certificates and other statements to accompany shipments. 
Whenever inspection or treatment and the issuance of a certificate, 
statement, test chart, or other writing showing the performance of such 
inspection or treatment and the result thereof is required by any of the 
regulations in this subchapter as a condition precedent to the movement 
interstate of any poultry or other animal or class of poultry or other 
animals, or any poultry or other animal or class of poultry or other 
animals is so required to be accompanied in interstate movement by such 
certificate, statement, test chart, or other writing, no such poultry or 
other animal or poultry or other animals shall be moved interstate 
unless and until the following requirements are also complied with:
    (1) In the case of such movement by a common carrier issuing 
waybills or other form or forms of billing covering the movement, the 
said certificate, statement, test chart, or other writing shall be 
delivered to such carrier at the time the poultry or other animal or 
poultry or other animals are delivered for shipment, and shall become 
the property of the carrier, and be by such carrier attached to the 
billing covering the transportation of such poultry or other animal or 
poultry or other animals, and accompany such billing to destination, and 
be filed with such billing for future reference.
    (2) In case of such movement otherwise than by common carrier 
issuing waybills or other form or forms of billing, the said 
certificate, statement, test chart, or other writing shall accompany the 
poultry or other animal or poultry or other animals to destination and 
be delivered to the consignees, or, in case the consignor and consignee 
is the same person, to the first purchaser purchasing during or after 
such movement in interstate commerce, or to the person to whom the 
poultry or other animal or poultry or other animals are delivered.

[28 FR 5937, June 13, 1963, as amended at 34 FR 15642, Oct. 9, 1969; 55 
FR 11156, Mar. 27, 1990; 55 FR 15320, Apr. 23, 1990; 62 FR 27934, May 
22, 1997]