View all text of Subchapter IX [§ 4081 - § 4088]
§ 4081a. Exception for Government-financed air transportation; reducing hardship for transportation of domestic animals
(1) In generalNotwithstanding subsections (a) and (c) of section 40118 of title 49, the Department is authorized to pay for the transportation by a foreign air carrier of Department personnel and any in-cabin or accompanying checked baggage or cargo if—
(A) no air carrier holding a certificate under section 41102 of such title is willing and able to transport up to 3 domestic animals accompanying such Federal personnel; and
(B) the transportation is from a place—
(i) outside the United States to a place in the United States;
(ii) in the United States to a place outside the United States; or
(iii) outside the United States to another place outside the United States.
(2) Limitation
(3) Domestic animal defined
(Pub. L. 118–31, div. F, title LXII, § 6224(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 979.)