2025 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
DIVISION 5 - ANIMAL AND POULTRY QUARANTINE AND PEST CONTROL
PART 1 - DISEASED ANIMALS AND POULTRY
CHAPTER 3 - Animal Quarantine
ARTICLE 5 - Noncompensable Destruction of Diseased Animals
Section 9621.

Universal Citation:
CA Food & Agri Code § 9621 (2025)
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9621. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9571, every horse, mule, or other animal which is affected with dourine, as shown by a complement-fixation test, is a public nuisance, and shall be immediately destroyed under the direction and supervision of the department. No indemnity shall be paid for such animal.

(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

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