---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1829"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1829"
heading: "Preemption of State laws; concurrent jurisdiction; prohibition on certain State action"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1829"
units:
  - "Chapter 44 — Protection of Horses"
---

# §1829. Preemption of State laws; concurrent jurisdiction; prohibition on certain State action


No provision of this chapter shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of the Congress to occupy the field in which such provision operates to the exclusion of the law of any [State](/usc/15/1821.md?p=4) on the same subject matter, unless there is a direct and positive conflict between such provision and the law of the [State](/usc/15/1821.md?p=4) so that the two cannot be reconciled or consistently stand together. Nor shall any provision of this chapter be construed to exclude the Federal Government from enforcing the provision of this chapter within any [State](/usc/15/1821.md?p=4), whether or not such [State](/usc/15/1821.md?p=4) has enacted legislation on the same subject, it being the intent of the Congress to establish concurrent jurisdiction with the [States](/usc/15/1821.md?p=4) over such subject matter. In no case shall any such [State](/usc/15/1821.md?p=4) take any action pursuant to this section involving a violation of any such law of that [State](/usc/15/1821.md?p=4) which would preclude the United States from enforcing the provisions of this chapter against any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–540, § 10, Dec. 9, 1970, 84 Stat. 1406.)