[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: 9CFR73.1b]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 73--SCABIES IN CATTLE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 73.1b  Quarantine policy.

    The Act of March 3, 1905, as amended (21 U.S.C. 123), authorizes the 
Secretary of Agriculture to quarantine any State, or any portion of any 
State, when he determines the fact that any animals in such jurisdiction 
are affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease of 
livestock or that the contagion of any such disease exists, or that 
vectors which may disseminate any such disease exist in such 
jurisdiction. Pursuant to this authority, the Department has quarantined 
various areas because of cattle scabies and has issued the regulations 
in this part governing the interstate movement of cattle from such 
areas. It

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is the policy of the Department to quarantine those portions of any 
State that are clearly identifiable, and in which exist animals affected 
with cattle scabies, or mites which are the contagion of said disease 
and not to quarantine an entire State for cattle scabies if the State 
adopts and enforces requirements for the intrastate movement of cattle 
that are at least as stringent as the requirements in the regulations in 
this part for interstate movements of cattle. Further, it is the policy 
of the Department to remove the quarantine from any quarantined area 
when it is determined that scabies-affected animals and the mites which 
are the contagion of scabies no longer exist in such areas.

[38 FR 31671, Nov. 16, 1973]