---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3812"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3812"
heading: "Authority in addition to other laws; effect on State laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3812"
units:
  - "Chapter 69 — Swine Health Protection"
---

# §3812. Authority in addition to other laws; effect on State laws


The authority conferred by this chapter shall be in addition to authority conferred by other statutes. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to repeal or supersede any [State](/usc/7/3802.md?p=4) law prohibiting the feeding of [garbage](/usc/7/3802.md?p=2) to [swine](/usc/7/198.md?p=6) or to prohibit any [State](/usc/7/3802.md?p=4) from enforcing requirements relating to the treatment of [garbage](/usc/7/3802.md?p=2) to be fed to [swine](/usc/7/198.md?p=6) or the feeding thereof which are more stringent than those under this chapter or the regulations hereunder.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–468, § 12, formerly § 13, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2233; renumbered § 12, Pub. L. 104–127, title IX, § 914(b)(2), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1186.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 12 of Pub. L. 96–468 was renumbered section 11 and is classified to section 3811 of this title.