Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 10, 2026

Title 9 - Animals and Animal Products last revised: Jan 28, 2026
§ 381.216 - Procedure for judicial seizure, condemnation, and disposition.

Any poultry or other article subject to seizure and condemnation under this subpart is liable to be proceeded against and seized and condemned, and disposed of, at any time, on an appropriate pleading in any U.S. district court, or other proper court specified in section 21 of the Act, within the jurisdiction of which the article is found.

authority: 7 U.S.C. 138f,1633; 21 U.S.C. 451-472; 7 CFR 2.7, 2.18, 2.53
source: 37 FR 9706, May 16, 1972, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 9 CFR 381.216