2005 West Virginia Code - §19-10-3. — Diseases disqualifying stallion or jack for enrollment.

§19-10-3. Diseases disqualifying stallion or jack for enrollment.

The presence of faulty conformation, and of any of the following named diseases shall disqualify a stallion or jack for enrollment: Cataract, amaurosis (glass eye), periodic ophthalmia (moon blindness), laryngeal hemiplegia (roaring or whistling), pulmonary emphysema (heaves broken wind), chorea (St. Vitus' dance, crampiness, shivering, string halt), bone spavin, ringbone, side bone, navicular disease (disease of coffin joint), bog spavin, curb, with curby formation of hock, glanders, farcy, maladie de coit, urethral gleet, mange, melanosis. The commissioner of agriculture is authorized to refuse his certificate of enrollment to any stallion or jack affected with any one of such diseases and to revoke the previously issued enrollment certificate of any stallion or jack found upon investigation by the commissioner or his agents to be so affected.