2015 Code of Virginia
Title 3.2 - Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food
§ 3.2-6016. Altering disease control identification of livestock or poultry

VA Code § 3.2-6016 (2015) What's This?

It shall be unlawful for any person to, unless in accordance with regulations adopted pursuant to this article, alter, deface, change from one animal to another, mutilate, substitute, remove, misrepresent, or otherwise interfere with any tag, brand, tattoo, mark, or other identification adopted or used by any county, the Commissioner, the Board, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or any other state for the identification of any animal in the Commonwealth or shipped into the Commonwealth for the purpose of controlling or eradicating disease.

Code 1950, § 3-591; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-755; 2008, c. 860.

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