---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3807"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3807"
heading: "General enforcement provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3807"
units:
  - "Chapter 69 — Swine Health Protection"
---

# §3807. General enforcement provisions

- (a) **Injunctions—** The Attorney General, upon the request of the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1), shall bring an action to enjoin the violation of, or to compel compliance with, any provision of this chapter or any regulation issued by the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) hereunder by any [person](/usc/7/3802.md?p=3). Such action shall be brought in the appropriate United States district court for the judicial district in which such [person](/usc/7/3802.md?p=3) resides or transacts business or in which the violation or omission has occurred or is about to occur. Process in such cases may be served in any judicial district wherein the defendant resides or transacts business or wherever the defendant may be found.
- (b) **Access to premises or facility and books and records; examination; samples—** Any [person](/usc/7/3802.md?p=3) subject to the provisions of this chapter shall, at all reasonable times, upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1), afford such representative access to his premises or facility and opportunity to examine the premises or facility, the [garbage](/usc/7/3802.md?p=2) there at, and books and records thereof, to copy all such books and records and to take reasonable samples of such [garbage](/usc/7/3802.md?p=2).
- (c) **Additional powers—** For the efficient execution of the provisions of this chapter, and in order to provide information for the use of Congress, the provisions (including penalties) of sections [46](/usc/15/46.md) and [48](/usc/15/48.md) through [50](/usc/15/50.md) of title 15, are made applicable to the jurisdiction, powers, and duties of the [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1) in enforcing the provisions of this chapter and to any [person](/usc/7/3802.md?p=3) subject to the provisions of this chapter, whether or not a corporation. The [Secretary](/usc/7/3802.md?p=1), in [person](/usc/7/3802.md?p=3) or by such agents as he may designate, may prosecute any inquiry necessary to his duties under this chapter in any part of the United States.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–468, § 8, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2232.)