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H.R. 1068 (94th)

Diseased Pet Act

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Introduced

14 January 1975

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Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

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Summary

Diseased Pet Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to issue appropriate regulations to prohibit or restrict the sale or transportation, or other distribution in interstate commerce, of live creatures intended to be pets in order to prevent or reduce the transmission of diseases to human beings. Exempts from this Act animals or other creatures sold or transported or otherwise distributed in interstate commerce for zoological, medical, educational, scientific, industrial, or research purposes, or for human or animal food. Prescribes a fine of not more than $1,000, or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both, for violation of the regulations promulgated under this Act, and authorizes the obtaining of injunctions against prospective violations of the Act.

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