[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR93.314]

[Page 448-449]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
   PART 93_IMPORTATION OF CERTAIN ANIMALS, BIRDS, FISH, AND POULTRY, AND 
 
                            Subpart C_Horses
 
Sec. 93.314  Horses, certification, and accompanying equipment.

    (a) Horses offered for importation from any part of the world shall 
be accompanied by a certificate of a salaried veterinary officer of the 
national government of the region of origin, or if exported from Mexico, 
shall be accompanied either by such a certificate or by a certificate 
issued by a veterinarian accredited by the National Government of Mexico 
and endorsed by a full-time salaried veterinary officer of the National 
Government of Mexico, thereby representing that the veterinarian issuing 
the certificate was authorized to do so, showing that:

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    (1) The horses described in the certificate have been in said region 
during the 60 days preceding exportation;
    (2) That each horse has been inspected on the premises of origin and 
found free of evidence of communicable disease and, insofar as can be 
determined, exposure thereto during the 60 days preceding exportation;
    (3) That each horse has not been vaccinated with a live or 
attenuated or inactivated vaccine during the 14 days preceding 
exportation: Provided, however, that in specific cases the Administrator 
may authorize horses that have been vaccinated with an inactivated 
vaccine to enter the United States when he or she determines that in 
such cases and under such conditions as he or she may prescribe such 
importation will not endanger the livestock in the United States, and 
such horses comply with all other applicable requirements of this part;
    (4) That, insofar as can be determined, no case of African horse 
sickness, dourine, glanders, surra, epizootic lymphangitis, ulcerative 
lymphangitis, equine piroplasmosis, Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis, 
vesicular stomatitis, or equine infectious anemia has occurred on the 
premises of origin or on adjoining premises during the 60 days preceding 
exportation; and
    (5) That, except as provided in Sec. 93.301(g):
    (i) The horses have not been in any region listed in Sec. 
93.301(c)(1) as affected with CEM during the 12 months immediately prior 
to their importation into the United States;
    (ii) The horses have not been on any premises at any time during 
which time such premises were found by an official of the veterinary 
services of the national government of the region where such premises 
are located, to be affected with CEM;
    (iii) The horses have not been bred by or bred to any horses from an 
affected premises; and
    (iv) The horses have had no other contact with horses that have been 
found to be affected with CEM or with horses that were imported from 
regions affected with CEM.
    (b) If a horse is presented for importation from a region where it 
has been for less than 60 days, the horse must be accompanied by a 
certificate that meets the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section 
that has been issued by a salaried veterinary officer of the national 
government of each region in which the horse has been during the 60 days 
immediately preceding its shipment to the United States. The dates 
during which the horse was in each region during the 60 days immediately 
preceding its exportation to the United States shall be included as a 
part of the certification.
    (c) Following the port-of-entry inspection required by Sec. 93.306 
of this part, and before a horse offered for importation from any part 
of the world is released from the port of entry, an inspector may 
require the horse and its accompanying equipment to be disinfected as a 
precautionary measure against the introduction of foot-and-mouth disease 
or any other disease dangerous to the livestock of the United States.

[61 FR 52245, Oct. 7, 1996. Redesignated and amended at 62 FR 56012, 
56017, Oct. 28, 1997; 63 FR 53783, Oct. 7, 1998]

                               Canada \16\
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    \16\ Importations from Canada shall be subject to Sec. Sec. 93.315, 
93.316, 93.317 and 93.318, in addition to other sections in this part 
which are in terms applicable to such importations.
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