[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: 9CFR71.6]

[Page 192]
 
                  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. 71.6  Carrier responsible for cleaning and disinfecting of railroad cars, trucks, boats, aircraft or other means of conveyance.

    (a) Railroad cars, trucks, boats, aircraft, and other means of 
conveyance which have been used in the interstate transportation of 
cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, or other animals affected with, or 
carrying the infection of, any contagious, infectious, or communicable 
disease of livestock or poultry, other than slight unopened cases of 
actinomycosis or actinobacillosis (or both), atrophic rhinitis, bovine 
foot rot, brucellosis, ram epididymitis, ringworm, infectious keratitis, 
and arthritis (simple lesions only), shall be cleaned and disinfected 
under APHIS supervision in accordance with Secs. 71.7 and 71.10 through 
71.12 at the point where the animals are unloaded and the final carrier 
shall be responsible for such cleaning and disinfecting: Provided, That 
when APHIS supervision is not available at such point, the means of 
conveyance may be cleaned and disinfected under the supervision of a 
State representative or an accredited veterinarian.
    (b) No railroad car, truck, boat, aircraft or other means of 
conveyance from which poultry or other animals affected with an 
infectious, contagious or communicable disease of livestock or poultry, 
other than those specified in Sec. 71.4(b), have been unloaded shall 
thereafter be used in connection with the interstate movement of 
animals, including poultry, or be moved interstate until it has been 
cleaned and disinfected by the final carrier under the supervision of an 
APHIS or State representative or an accredited veterinarian in 
accordance with Secs. 71.7 and 71.10 through 71.12.
    (c) If APHIS supervision or other supervision as required by 
paragraph (a) or (b) of this section or proper cleaning and disinfecting 
facilities are not available at the point where the animals are 
unloaded, upon permission first received from the Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service, the means of conveyance may be forwarded 
empty to a point at which such supervision and facilities are available, 
and there be cleaned and disinfected under supervision in accordance 
with Secs. 71.7 and 71.10 through 71.12.

[34 FR 15641, Oct. 9, 1969, as amended at 37 FR 25337, Nov. 30, 1972; 39 
FR 4465, Feb. 4, 1974; 55 FR 11156, Mar. 27, 1990; 55 FR 15320, Apr. 23, 
1990; 62 FR 27934, May 22, 1997]