---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2134"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2134"
heading: "Valid license for dealers and exhibitors required"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2134"
units:
  - "Chapter 54 — Transportation, Sale, and Handling of Certain Animals"
---

# §2134. Valid license for dealers and exhibitors required


No [dealer](/usc/7/2132.md?p=f) or [exhibitor](/usc/7/2132.md?p=h) shall sell or offer to sell or transport or offer for transportation, in [commerce](/usc/7/2132.md?p=c), to any [research facility](/usc/7/2132.md?p=e) or for exhibition or for use as a pet any [animal](/usc/7/2132.md?p=g), or buy, sell, offer to buy or sell, transport or offer for transportation, in [commerce](/usc/7/2132.md?p=c), to or from another [dealer](/usc/7/2132.md?p=f) or [exhibitor](/usc/7/2132.md?p=h) under this chapter any [animals](/usc/7/2132.md?p=g), unless and until such [dealer](/usc/7/2132.md?p=f) or [exhibitor](/usc/7/2132.md?p=h) shall have obtained a license from the [Secretary](/usc/7/2132.md?p=b) and such license shall not have been suspended or revoked.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–544, § 4, Aug. 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 351; Pub. L. 91–579, § 5, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1561; Pub. L. 94–279, § 5, Apr. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 418.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–279 substituted “in commerce” for “affecting commerce” in two places.

1970—Pub. L. 91–579 inserted references to exhibitors, offers to sell, and offers to transport, and substituted references to animals for references to dogs and cats.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1970 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 91–579 effective one year after Dec. 24, 1970, see section 23 of Pub. L. 91–579, set out as a note under section 2131 of this title.