<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="idbe9df91a-aaf5-11e3-a8cb-a7a72594c0f9" identifier="/us/usc/t7/s2140"><num value="2140">§ 2140.</num><heading> Recordkeeping by dealers, exhibitors, research facilities, intermediate handlers, and carriers</heading><content>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">Dealers and exhibitors shall make and retain for such reasonable period of time as the Secretary may prescribe, such records with respect to the purchase, sale, transportation, identification, and previous ownership of animals as the Secretary may prescribe. Research facilities shall make and retain such records only with respect to the purchase, sale, transportation, identification, and previous ownership of live dogs and cats. At the request of the Secretary, any regulatory agency of the Federal Government which requires records to be maintained by intermediate handlers and carriers with respect to the transportation, receiving, handling, and delivery of animals on forms prescribed by the agency, shall require there to be included in such forms, and intermediate handlers and carriers shall include in such forms, such information as the Secretary may require for the effective administration of this chapter. Such information shall be retained for such reasonable period of time as the Secretary may prescribe. If regulatory agencies of the Federal Government do not prescribe requirements for any such forms, intermediate handlers and carriers shall make and retain for such reasonable period  as  the  Secretary  may  prescribe  such records with respect to the transportation, receiving, handling, and delivery of animals as the Secretary may prescribe. Such records shall be made available at all reasonable times for inspection and copying by the Secretary.</p>
</content><sourceCredit id="idbe9df91b-aaf5-11e3-a8cb-a7a72594c0f9">(<ref href="/us/pl/89/544/s10">Pub. L. 89–544, § 10</ref>, <date date="1966-08-24">Aug. 24, 1966</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/80/351">80 Stat. 351</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/91/579/s11">Pub. L. 91–579, § 11</ref>, <date date="1970-12-24">Dec. 24, 1970</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/84/1562">84 Stat. 1562</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/94/279/s8">Pub. L. 94–279, § 8</ref>, <date date="1976-04-22">Apr. 22, 1976</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/90/418">90 Stat. 418</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="amendments" id="idbe9df91d-aaf5-11e3-a8cb-a7a72594c0f9"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Amendments</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1976—<ref href="/us/pl/94/279">Pub. L. 94–279</ref> struck out “, upon forms supplied by the Secretary” after “ownership of animals as the Secretary may prescribe” and inserted provisions dealing with the records required to be maintained by intermediate handlers and carriers relating to the transportation, receiving, handling and delivery of animals.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1970—<ref href="/us/pl/91/579">Pub. L. 91–579</ref> extended recordkeeping requirements to include exhibitors and to include animals, as defined, rather than only dogs and cats, except that research facilities shall continue to keep required records only for live dogs and cats.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="effectiveDateOfAmendment" id="idbe9df91e-aaf5-11e3-a8cb-a7a72594c0f9"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Effective Date of 1970 Amendment</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Amendment by <ref href="/us/pl/91/579">Pub. L. 91–579</ref> effective one year after <date date="1970-12-24">Dec. 24, 1970</date>, see <ref href="/us/pl/91/579/s23">section 23 of Pub. L. 91–579</ref>, set out as a note under <ref href="/us/usc/t7/s2131">section 2131 of this title</ref>.</p>
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