[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR71.4]

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                  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.  71.4  Maintenance of certain facilities and premises in a sanitary 

condition required; cleaning and disinfection, when required; animals 
classed as ``exposed.''

    (a) Yards, pens, chutes, alleys, and other facilities and premises 
which are used in connection with the interstate movement of livestock 
or poultry shall be maintained by the person in possession of the 
facilities and premises in a clean and sanitary condition, in accordance 
with good animal husbandry practices, and shall be subject to inspection 
by an APHIS or State representative. When an APHIS or State 
representative determines that such facilities or premises are not in 
such clean and sanitary condition and gives written notice of his 
determination to such person, the facilities and premises shall be 
cleaned and disinfected in accordance with Sec. Sec.  71.7 and 71.10 
through 71.12 by such person under the supervision of an APHIS or State 
representative or an accredited veterinarian before such premises are 
again used for livestock or poultry.
    (b) Yards, pens, chutes, alleys, and other facilities and premises 
which have contained interstate shipments 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), bovine foot rot, atrophic rhinitis, ram 
epididymitis, ringworm, infectious keratitis, and arthritis (simple 
lesions only), shall be

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cleaned and disinfected under the supervision of an APHIS or State 
representative or an accredited veterinarian in accordance with 
Sec. Sec.  71.7 and 71.10 through 71.12 before such premises are again 
used for animals, and any poultry or other animals unloaded into such 
yards or premises before they have been so cleaned and disinfected shall 
thereafter be classed as ``exposed'' within the meaning of the 
regulations in this subchapter and shall not be moved interstate except 
in compliance with the provisions of such regulations applicable to 
``exposed'' animals.

[34 FR 15641, Oct. 9, 1969, as amended at 55 FR 11156, Mar. 27, 1990; 55 
FR 15320, Apr. 23, 1990; 62 FR 27933, May 22, 1997]