2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 22-285. Emergency appropriations for suppression of diseases.
Sec. 22-285. Emergency appropriations for suppression of diseases. The Governor is authorized, in the case of an emergency arising from the prevalence of any
contagious disease among domestic animals, to appropriate such sum or sums as may
be necessary to defray the state's share of the expense incurred in cooperating with
the federal authorities in the suppression and extirpation of any such disease, which
cooperation by said federal authorities is authorized under an Act of Congress approved
May 29, 1884.
History: 1967 act authorized emergency appropriations to combat hog cholera; P.A. 81-56 repealed provision limiting compensation for condemned animals to fifty per cent of actual value of animal or contaminated equipment in keeping with amendments in Sec. 22-288 and deleted specific reference to foot and mouth disease and hog cholera.
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