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150.720 Administrative regulations relating to cervids -- Costs resulting from importation of diseased animal.

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Page 1 of 1 150.720 Administrative regulations relating to cervids -- Costs resulting from importation of diseased animal. (1) The Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources shall promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to health <br>requirements, eradication of diseases, importation and unique individual <br>identification, including visual identification tags, of privately owned and farm <br>raised cervids maintained for the production of meat and other products. Nothing in <br>this section shall limit the authority of the Department of Fish and Wildlife <br>Resources to regulate the unique individual identification, including visual <br>identification, of captive cervids that are not privately owned and farm-raised <br>cervids maintained for the production of meat and other products. The Department <br>of Fish and Wildlife Resources, in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, <br>shall promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to the holding of cervids. (2) If any person imports a diseased animal into the Commonwealth in violation of the statutes and administrative regulations, then that person shall be responsible to the <br>Department of Agriculture and the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources for <br>all costs incurred in the investigation, response, and eradication of that disease. Effective: June 25, 2009 <br>History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 2, effective June 25, 2009. -- Created 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 88, sec. 1, effective March 28, 2002.