Title 6 — Domestic SecurityRelease 119-73
§453c Disposition of equines unfit for service
Title 6 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VIII— - COORDINATION WITH NON-FEDERAL ENTITIES; INSPECTOR GENERAL; UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE; COAST GUARD; GENERAL PROVISIONS › Part Part H— - Miscellaneous Provisions › § 453c
Summary
Since fiscal year 2012, federal funds can't be used to kill or pasture DHS equines unfit for service unless handlers are first offered adoption via programs that bar slaughter/abuse.
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Title 6, §453c
Domestic Security — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
None of the funds made available in this or any other Act for fiscal year 2012 and thereafter may be used to destroy or put out to pasture any horse or other equine belonging to any component or agency of the Department of Homeland Security that has become unfit for service, unless the trainer or handler is first given the option to take possession of the equine through an adoption program that has safeguards against slaughter and inhumane treatment.
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This Act, referred to in text, means div. D of Pub. L. 112–74, Dec. 23, 2011, 125 Stat. 943, known as the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2012. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2012, and also as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012, and not as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 which comprises this chapter.
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6 U.S.C. § 453c
Title 6 — Domestic Security
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73