2005 Minnesota Statutes - 29.051 — Poultry disease eradication.

     29.051 Poultry disease eradication. 


    The Board of Animal Health shall cooperate with the 
 commissioner of agriculture in all ways consistent with law.  
 The board shall have exclusive jurisdiction and control over all 
 matters pertaining to poultry diseases and the control and 
 eradication thereof.  The board is authorized to formulate, 
 adopt, and enforce rules whereby owners of poultry breeding 
 flocks may, upon agreement with the board, have flocks examined, 
 tested, and officially designated as meeting the qualifications 
 for any stage of eradication of any specified communicable 
 infectious disease when and as approved methods for official 
 testing for the other disease may be adopted by the board, if 
 personnel is available and funds are appropriated for the use of 
 the board in making the tests and inspections. 


    HIST: (5460-12) 1931 c 408 s 6; 1957 c 672 s 5; 1961 c 113 s 
 1; 1980 c 467 s 32