---
kind: "section"
citation: "9 C.F.R. § 93.701"
title: "9"
number: "93.701"
heading: "Prohibitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/9/93.701"
---

# §93.701. Prohibitions.

- (a) No person may import a hedgehog or tenrec into the United States from any region designated in [§ 94.1](/cfr/9/94.1.md) of this chapter as a region where foot-and-mouth disease exists.
- (b) No person may import a brushtail possum or hedgehog into the United States from New Zealand.
- (c) No person may import leopard tortoise (Geochelone pardalis), African spurred tortoise (Geochelone sulcata), or Bell's hingeback tortoise (Kinixys belliana) into the United States.

## Notes

### Amendments

[55 FR 31495, Aug. 2, 1990. Redesignated and amended at 56012, 56021, Oct. 28, 1997; 65 FR 15218, Mar. 22, 2000]

### Source

Source: 60 FR 55181, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 62 FR 56012, Oct. 28, 1997.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1622 and 8301-8317; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4.

### Source

Source: 55 FR 31495, Aug. 2, 1990, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 62 FR 56012, Oct. 28, 1997.

### Amendments

[55 FR 31495, Aug. 2, 1990. Redesignated and amended at 56012, 56021, Oct. 28, 1997; 65 FR 15218, Mar. 22, 2000]