United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
Title 21. FOOD AND DRUGS |
Chapter 12. MEAT INSPECTION |
SubChapter I. INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS; ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING |
§ 618. Delivery of inspectors’ certificates, and of copies
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The inspectors provided for under this subchapter shall be authorized to give official certificates of the condition of the carcasses and products of amenable species; and one copy of every certificate granted under the provisions of this chapter shall be filed in the Department of Agriculture, another copy shall be delivered to the owner or shipper, and when the amenable species, or their carcasses and products are sent abroad, a third copy shall be delivered to the chief officer of the vessel on which the shipment shall be made.
Codification
“Provided for under this subchapter” was in the original “provided for herein”.
Section was formerly classified to section 86 of this title.
Amendments
2005—Pub. L. 109–97 substituted “amenable species” for “cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines” in two places.
2002—Pub. L. 107–171 substituted “of the carcasses and products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines” for “of the cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines, their carcasses and products as described in this subchapter”.
1967—Pub. L. 90–201, § 12(a), (h), included horses, mules, and other equines in the list of animals and struck out “sound and wholesome” before “conditions”, respectively.
Effective Date Of Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 109–97 effective the day after 120 days after
Amendment by Pub. L. 90–201 effective