Sec. 22-299a. Brucellosis class free areas. Quarantine.
Sec. 22-299a. Brucellosis class free areas. Quarantine. The Commissioner of
Agriculture may make regulations to establish and maintain brucellosis class free areas
in conformity with the uniform methods and rules established by the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services, of the United States Department of
Agriculture. Such regulations shall establish standards and procedures for the quarantine, testing, vaccination and identification of cattle, control of shipment of cattle into
such areas, branding and disposal of reactors and disinfection of premises, for the control
and eradication of brucellosis. The Brucella ring test shall be an official part of the state-federal cooperative brucellosis program, and the commissioner may exercise discretion
in establishing intervals between herd tests with the Brucella ring test, based on the best
interests of the eradication program. Brucella ring test antigens used in conducting such
tests and test procedures employed shall be only those jointly approved by the cooperating agencies, the Department of Agriculture and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service, Veterinary Services, of the United States Department of Agriculture. Certified
status of herds may be retained by annual retesting, request for which shall be made in
writing to the commissioner, the expense of such tests to be borne by the state. Infected
herds shall be quarantined. In such case the entire herd shall be confined to the premises
and movement of all cattle shall be prohibited until the herd has passed at least three
negative herd retests as required by the uniform methods and rules established by the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services, of the United States
Department of Agriculture following removal of reactors; except that cattle consigned
for immediate slaughter under permit may be moved from the quarantined premises to
the point where slaughter is to be effected if accompanied by such permit. Any person
purchasing such animals shall exercise all reasonable diligence in determining that a
valid permit is received by him to move such animals from the premises directly to a point
where immediate slaughter will be conducted and that such permit shall accompany such
animals to slaughter.
(1963, P.A. 391, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 446, 448; P.A. 85-51, S. 2; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(e), (f); P.A.
04-189, S. 1.)
History: 1971 act replaced commissioner and department of agriculture and natural resources with commissioner and
department of agriculture; P.A. 85-51 substituted "brucellosis class free areas" for "certified brucellosis-free areas and
modified certified brucellosis-free areas," substituted "Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services,
of the United States Department of Agriculture" for "United States Livestock Sanitary Association" and "animal disease
eradication division of the United States Department of Agriculture" and prohibited cattle movement until the herd has
passed retests as required by the uniform methods and rules rather than until the herd has passed a negative herd retest 30
days following removal of reactors; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner and Department of Agriculture
with Commissioner and Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed
Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer
Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
See chapter 54 re uniform administrative procedure.