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Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73

§2154 Effective dates

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 54— - TRANSPORTATION, SALE, AND HANDLING OF CERTAIN ANIMALS › § 2154

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must write the rules required by sections 2140 and 2143 as soon as reasonable, but no later than six months from August 24, 1966. The Secretary can add or change the rules later. Dealers must follow the rules 90 days after the rules are published. Research facilities must follow them six months after publication, but the Secretary can give a research facility more time if it shows it will meet the standards soon. For the April 22, 1976 amendments, rules about intermediate handlers and carriers must be issued no later than 9 months after April 22, 1976, and those handlers and carriers must comply 90 days after those rules are published. Dealers, exhibitors, auction operators, and research facilities must follow other amended provisions 90 days after April 22, 1976. Compliance with subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 2143 and with section 2156 as amended also starts 90 days after April 22, 1976. All other amendments take effect on April 22, 1976.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §2154

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The regulations referred to in section 2140 and 2143 of this title shall be prescribed by the Secretary as soon as reasonable but not later than six months from August 24, 1966. Additions and amendments thereto may be prescribed from time to time as may be necessary or advisable. Compliance by dealers with the provisions of this chapter and such regulations shall commence ninety days after the promulgation of such regulations. Compliance by research facilities with the provisions of this chapter and such regulations shall commence six months after the promulgation of such regulations, except that the Secretary may grant extensions of time to research facilities which do not comply with the standards prescribed by the Secretary pursuant to section 2143 of this title provided that the Secretary determines that there is evidence that the research facilities will meet such standards within a reasonable time. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, compliance by intermediate handlers, and carriers, and other persons with those provisions of this chapter, as amended by the Animal Welfare Act Amendments of 1976, and those regulations promulgated thereunder, which relate to actions of intermediate handlers and carriers, shall commence 90 days after promulgation of regulations under section 2143 of this title, as amended, with respect to intermediate handlers and carriers, and such regulations shall be promulgated no later than 9 months after April 22, 1976; and compliance by dealers, exhibitors, operators of auction sales, and research facilities with other provisions of this chapter, as so amended, and the regulations thereunder, shall commence upon the expiration of 90 days after April 22, 1976: Provided, however, That compliance by all persons with subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 2143 and with section 2156 of this title, as so amended, shall commence upon the expiration of said ninety-day period. In all other respects, said amendments shall become effective on April 22, 1976.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Animal Welfare Act

Amendments

of 1976, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 94–279, Apr. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 417, which enacted section 2156 of this title, amended section 2131, 2132, 2134, 2136, 2139 to 2146, 2149, 2153 to 2155 of this title, and section 3001 of Title 39, Postal Service, repealed section 2150 of this title, and enacted provisions set out as notes under section 2131 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

of 1976 Amendment note set out under section 3121 of this title and Tables. Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 2143 of this title, referred to in text, were redesignated subsecs. (f), (g), and (h), respectively, and new subsecs. (b), (c), and (d) of section 2143 were enacted, by Pub. L. 99–198, title XVII, § 1752(a)(1), (c), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1645, 1647.

Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–279 inserted provisions setting particular

Effective Date

s of compliance for intermediate handlers and carriers and for dealers, exhibitors, operators of auction sales, and research facilities with respect to the

Amendments

made by the Animal Welfare Act

Amendments

of 1976.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 2154

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73