---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2136"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2136"
heading: "Registration of research facilities, handlers, carriers and unlicensed exhibitors"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2136"
units:
  - "Chapter 54 — Transportation, Sale, and Handling of Certain Animals"
---

# §2136. Registration of research facilities, handlers, carriers and unlicensed exhibitors


Every [research facility](/usc/7/2132.md?p=e), every [intermediate handler](/usc/7/2132.md?p=i), every [carrier](/usc/7/2132.md?p=j), and every [exhibitor](/usc/7/2132.md?p=h) not licensed under [section 2133 of this title](/usc/7/2133.md) shall register with the [Secretary](/usc/7/2132.md?p=b) in accordance with such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–544, § 6, Aug. 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 351; Pub. L. 91–579, § 7, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1561; Pub. L. 94–279, § 6, Apr. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 418.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–279 inserted “, every intermediate handler, every carrier,” after “research facility”.

1970—Pub. L. 91–579 inserted reference to exhibitors not licensed under section 2133 of this title.

### 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.