[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR50.7]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 50_ANIMALS DESTROYED BECAUSE OF TUBERCULOSIS--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart A_General Indemnity
 
Sec. 50.7  Destruction of animals.

    (a) Slaughter or disposal. Livestock to be destroyed because of 
tuberculosis must be shipped direct to slaughter under permit to a 
Federal or State inspected slaughtering establishment or be disposed of 
by rendering, burial, or incinerating in an approved manner under 
supervision of an APHIS or State employee.
    (b) Time limit for destruction of animals. Livestock for which 
Federal indemnity may be paid because of tuberculosis must be destroyed 
and carcass disposal completed within 15 days after the date of 
appraisal, except that the appropriate Veterinarian in Charge, for 
reasons satisfactory to him, may extend the time limit for slaughter to 
30 days when request for such extension is received by him prior to the 
expiration of the original 15-day period allowed, and the Administrator 
may extend the time limit for slaughter beyond 30 days, upon request in 
specific cases and for reasons satisfactory to him.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0579-0051)

[40 FR 27009, June 26, 1975, as amended at 45 FR 32287, May 16, 1980; 52 
FR 39614, Oct. 23, 1987; 56 FR 36998, Aug. 2, 1991; 60 FR 37809, July 
24, 1995; 63 FR 34264, June 24, 1998; 67 FR 7591, Feb. 20, 2002]

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