---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 41721"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "41721"
heading: "Reports by carriers on incidents involving animals during air transport"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/41721"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Aviation Programs"
  - "Part A — Air Commerce and Safety"
  - "Subpart ii — economic regulation"
  - "Chapter 417 — Operations of Carriers"
  - "Subchapter I — Requirements"
---

# §41721. Reports by carriers on incidents involving animals during air transport

- (a) **In General.—** An [air carrier](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-2) that provides scheduled passenger [air transportation](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-5) shall submit monthly to the Secretary a report on any incidents involving the loss, injury, or death of an animal (as defined by the Secretary of Transportation) during air transport provided by the [air carrier](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-2). The report shall be in such form and contain such information as the Secretary determines appropriate.
- (b) **Training of Air Carrier Employees.—** The Secretary shall work with [air carriers](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-2) to improve the training of [employees](/usc/49/49103.md?p=2) with respect to the air transport of animals and the notification of passengers of the conditions under which the air transport of animals is conducted.
- (c) **Sharing of Information.—** The Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture shall enter into a memorandum of understanding to ensure the sharing of information that the Secretary receives under [subsection (a)](#a).
- (d) **Publication of Data.—** The Secretary shall publish data on incidents and complaints involving the loss, injury, or death of an animal during air transport in a manner comparable to other consumer complaint and incident data.
- (e) **Air Transport.—** For purposes of this section, the air transport of an animal includes the entire period during which an animal is in the custody of an [air carrier](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-2), from check-in of the animal prior to departure until the animal is returned to the owner or guardian of the animal at the final destination of the animal.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–181, title VII, § 710(a), Apr. 5, 2000, 114 Stat. 159.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable only to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 1999, see section 3 of Pub. L. 106–181, set out as an Effective Date of 2000 Amendments note under section 106 of this title.