[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: 9CFR88.3]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 88_COMMERCIAL TRANSPORTATION OF EQUINES FOR SLAUGHTER--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  88.3  Standards for conveyances.

    (a) The animal cargo space of conveyances used for the commercial 
transportation of equines to slaughtering facilities must:
    (1) Be designed, constructed, and maintained in a manner that at all 
times protects the health and well-being of the equines being 
transported

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(e.g., provides adequate ventilation, contains no sharp protrusions, 
etc.);
    (2) Include means of completely segregating each stallion and each 
aggressive equine on the conveyance so that no stallion or aggressive 
equine can come into contact with any of the other equines on the 
conveyance;
    (3) Have sufficient interior height to allow each equine on the 
conveyance to stand with its head extended to the fullest normal 
postural height; and
    (4) Be equipped with doors and ramps of sufficient size and location 
to provide for safe loading and unloading.
    (b) Equines in commercial transportation to slaughtering facilities 
must not be transported in any conveyance that has the animal cargo 
space divided into two or more stacked levels, except that conveyances 
lacking the capability to convert from two or more stacked levels to one 
level may be used until December 7, 2006. Conveyances with collapsible 
floors (also known as ``floating decks'') must be configured to 
transport equines on one level only.