The provisions of sections 123 to 127 of this title shall apply to any railroad company or other common carrier whose road or line forms any part of a route over which quarantined animals are transported in the course of shipment from any quarantined State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or from the quarantined portion of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia into any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia.
(June 30, 1914, ch. 131, 38 Stat. 419; Pub. L. 87–518, §9, July 2, 1962, 76 Stat. 131.)
Section is from the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1915.
1962—Pub. L. 87–518 substituted “quarantined animals” for “cattle or other livestock”.
This section is referred to in section 136a of this title; title 16 section 1540.