---
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"
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](/usc/7/2009aa.md?p=1) conferred by this chapter shall be in addition to [authority](/usc/7/2009aa.md?p=1) 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 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 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.