§ 391. — Establishment of bureau; appointment of chief; duties.
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January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC391]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 15--BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Sec. 391. Establishment of bureau; appointment of chief; duties
There shall be in the Department of Agriculture a Bureau of Animal
Industry. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to appoint a chief
thereof, who shall be a competent veterinary surgeon, and whose duty it
shall be to investigate and report upon the condition of the domestic
animals and live poultry of the United States, their protection and use,
and also inquire into and report the causes of contagious, infectious,
and communicable diseases among them, and the means for the prevention
and cure of the same, and to collect such information on these subjects
as shall be valuable to the agricultural and commercial interests of the
country.
(May 29, 1884, ch. 60, Sec. 1, 23 Stat. 31; July 14, 1890, ch. 707, 26
Stat. 288; Feb. 7, 1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59.)
Codification
Section is composed of part of section 1 of act May 29, 1884.
Section 1 of that act as originally enacted contained this further
provision: ``And the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to
employ a force sufficient for the purpose, not to exceed 20 persons at
any one time.'' This provision was practically superseded by subsequent
appropriations for an enlarged force.
Section 1 also contained a provision as to salary of the Chief of
the Bureau and a clerk for said bureau, that has been omitted as
obsolete. The salaries are now fixed under chapter 51 and subchapter III
of chapter 53 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Amendments
1928--Joint Res. Feb. 7, 1928, inserted ``and live poultry'' after
``domestic animals''.
Transfer of Functions
Section 301 of 1947 Reorg. Plan No. 1, eff. July 1, 1947, 12 F.R.
4534, 61 Stat. 952, provided: ``The functions of the following agencies
of the Department of Agriculture, namely, the Bureau of Animal Industry,
the Bureau of Dairy Industry, the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and
Agricultural Engineering, the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine,
the Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, the Bureau of Human
Nutrition and Home Economics, the Office of Experiment Stations, and the
Agricultural Research Center, together with the functions of the
Agricultural Research Administrator, are transferred to the Secretary of
Agriculture and shall be performed by the Secretary or, subject to his
direction and control, by such officers and agencies of the Department
of Agriculture as he may designate.'' For provisions concerning transfer
of records, property, personnel, and funds, see full text of this Plan,
set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and
Employees.
The President's message, set out in the Appendix to Title 5,
Government Organization and Employees, transmitting this Reorg. Plan to
Congress pointed out that the Plan would make it possible to continue
the consolidation of the agencies concerned in the Agricultural Research
Administration which was affected on a temporary wartime basis by Ex.
Ord. No. 9069, Feb. 23, 1942, 7 F.R. 1409, and to make further
adjustments in the organization of agricultural research activities.
Functions of Bureau of Animal Industry which were transferred to
Secretary of Agriculture were transferred to Agricultural Research
Service under Secretary's memorandum 1320, supp. 4, of Nov. 2, 1953.
As of July 1, 1927, by order of the Secretary of Agriculture, the
Packers and Stockyards administration was abolished, and the enforcement
of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, sections 181 to 229 of this
title, put under the control of the chief of the Bureau of Animal
Industry.
Authority formerly granted to Commissioner of Agriculture by section
1 of act of May 29, 1884, vested in Secretary of Agriculture by act July
14, 1890. See also sections 2202 and 2205 of this title.
Functions of Bureau of Animal Industry of Agricultural Research
Administration concerned primarily with regulatory activities
consolidated with other agencies into Food Distribution Administration,
which was consolidated into War Food Administration, which was
terminated and its functions transferred to Secretary of Agriculture, by
Ex. Ord. No. 9577.