2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 22-388. Periodic testing of cattle for brucellosis or tuberculosis.

      Sec. 22-388. Periodic testing of cattle for brucellosis or tuberculosis. All cattle owned by a dealer or held by a dealer, pending sale, exchange, resale or shipment on premises owned, rented, leased or borrowed by such dealer may be subjected periodically to a tuberculin and blood test by an authorized, full-time, salaried veterinarian of the state or federal Department of Agriculture at no expense to the dealer. Any reactors to the brucellosis or tuberculin test shall be branded on the left jaw and a metal tag identifying the animal as a reactor affixed to the left ear. Such reactors shall be disposed of by slaughter immediately. Indemnity shall be paid on all such reactors in the manner provided in section 22-288, provided such reactor shall have passed at least one negative test since entering the state and shall have been acquired by the dealer in compliance with existing state regulations on interstate and intrastate movements of cattle. If a quarantine, due to the presence of an infectious, communicable livestock disease, is imposed on cattle owned by a dealer or held by a dealer pending sale, exchange, resale or shipment on premises owned, rented, leased or borrowed by such dealer, such dealer shall not be prohibited from engaging in his business as a dealer, provided such dealer shall comply with all quarantine restrictions and sanitation regulations of the state Department of Agriculture in respect to quarantined animals, including individual identification of each such animal by numbered ear tag and so described on the quarantine form, and shall establish a separate set of premises at least one hundred yards distant from all quarantined premises and pastures used by such quarantined animals, and provided in no instance shall the same attendant attend quarantined animals and animals in the healthy establishment unless disease conditions as determined by the state Department of Agriculture permit such practices under such sanitary requirements as are prescribed by the commissioner or his assistant.

      (1959, P.A. 573, S. 8; 637, S. 2; 1961, P.A. 67; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 446, 448; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-10, S. 9, 20; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(f); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)

      History: Later 1959 act replaced department of agriculture with department of agriculture, conservation and natural resources; 1961 act replaced department of agriculture, conservation and natural resources with department of agriculture and natural resources; 1971 act replaced department of agriculture and natural resources with department of agriculture; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-10 made this section discretionary rather than mandatory; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Department of Agriculture with 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 Sec. 22-287 re tuberculin tests.