[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: 9CFR91.26]

[Page 354]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 91_INSPECTION AND HANDLING OF LIVESTOCK FOR EXPORTATION--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart D_Inspection of Vessels and Accommodations
 
Sec.  91.26  Concrete flooring.

    (a) Pens aboard an ocean vessel shall have a 3 inch concrete 
pavement, proportioned and mixed to give 2000 psi. compressive strength 
in 28 days. The pavement shall have a broom or rough finish. Steel angle 
bars may be used for footlocks if they are mounted into the flooring in 
such a way that, at the same time, the bars serve as gutterways. The 
angle bars shall not be less than 2 inches by 2 inches and \5/16\ inches 
in thickness, and spaced on 12 inch centers running for and aft on the 
vessel.
    (b)(1) Horses and cattle. Flooring shall be laid athwartship and 
secured by placing ends beneath the under side of foot and rump boards 
or under a 2x4 strip nailed along these boards. 
Floors may be either of two types, flush or raised. The flush type shall 
be constructed of not less than 1 thick lumber laid flat on 
the deck. The raised type shall be constructed of not less than 
2 thick lumber nailed to scantlings of at least 
2x3 dimensions laid 2 feet 6 inches apart. If 
desired, flooring may be laid in portable sections. Flooring will not be 
required on ships with wooden decks provided footlocks are secured to 
the decks. Cement or composite material diagonally scored one-half inch 
deep may be used on iron decks instead of wooden flooring if the 
footlocks are molded in the same and bolted to the deck.
    (2) Sheep, goats, and swine. Flooring for sheep, goats, and swine 
shall be the same as prescribed in this section for horses and cattle, 
except that the raised flooring need not be greater than 12 inch in 
thickness.
    (3) Drainage. Provisions shall be made for drainage of urine and 
surface water from all parts of the vessel used for carriage of animals 
including sufficient scuppers. A walkway shall provide easy access to 
the scuppers.
    (c)(1) Horses and cattle. In pens for horses or cattle, there shall 
be four footlocks of 1x4 lumber laid fore and aft 
with flat side down, and so placed as to provide in-between spaces of 
12, 14, 26, and 14 inches, beginning at inside of the footboard. 
Additional footlocks shall be added at 14 inch intervals in pens having 
a depth of 9 feet or more. They shall be well secured with nails of a 
length that will permit 1 inch clinch in 1 inch flooring and 2 inch 
penetration in 2 inch flooring.
    (2) Sheep, goats, and swine. Footlocks in pens for sheep, goats, and 
swine shall be of not less than 1x2 lumber, four 
to each pen, equally distributed and laid in the manner prescribed in 
paragraph (c)(1) of this section for horses and cattle.

[42 FR 28990, June 7, 1977. Redesignated at 45 FR 86413, Dec. 31, 1980, 
and amended at 57 FR 23047, June 1, 1992]