§ 72. Control and suppression of disease. 1. The commissioner may cause investigations to be made as to the best method for the control, suppression or eradication of infectious or communicable disease affecting domestic animals or carried by domestic animals and affecting humans. Whenever any infectious or communicable disease affecting domestic animals or carried by […]
§ 72-a. Feeding of garbage, offal or carcasses to cattle, swine or poultry prohibited. 1. Garbage fed to cattle, swine or poultry contributes to the spread of vesicular exanthema, cholera, erysipelas, foot and mouth disease, trichinosis and other infectious animal diseases. Meat from animals so afflicted, when consumed by human beings, is a primary source […]
§ 73. Report of disease. Every person shall immediately report to the commissioner the existence among animals of any infectious or communicable disease coming to his knowledge. Every report shall be in writing and shall include a description of the diseased animal or animals, the location thereof, the name of the disease suspected, and, if […]
§ 73-a. Unlawful sale of tuberculous cattle. A person who knowingly sells, except under the supervision of the commissioner of agriculture and markets, any bovine animal in which tuberculosis shall have been indicated as a result of the tuberculin test, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
§ 73-b. The New York state veterinary diagnostic laboratory. 1. The commissioner is authorized to establish and maintain, by contract or otherwise, a New York state veterinary diagnostic laboratory and to contract for other diagnostic services, as he or she may deem necessary or beneficial, to improve the health of food and fiber producing animals, […]
§ 74. Regulations relating to importation. The following regulations shall apply to the importation of domestic or feral animals: 1. No person shall knowingly bring into this state any domestic or feral animal which has an infectious or communicable disease, except in the case of pure bred registered bovine animals which have been removed from […]
§ 75. Sanitary regulations. The commissioner may adopt and enforce rules regulating the sanitation and physical requirements of stables, livestock auction buildings or other buildings used for the housing of domestic animals for the purpose of preventing the spread of infection and contagion among such animals and may provide for the inspection and examination of […]
§ 76. Quarantine on animals or premises. 1. The commissioner, any department employed veterinarian authorized by the commissioner, any veterinarian in the employ of the United States department of agriculture who is working in this state in connection with disease control programs cooperatively conducted by the United States department of agriculture and the department, or, […]
§ 77. Examination by veterinarian prerequisite to destruction of animal. No animal shall be destroyed by the commissioner or by his order unless first examined by a veterinarian in the employ of the department, or whose work is approved by the commissioner, nor until such veterinarian renders a certificate to the commissioner, to the effect […]
§ 78. Examination of domestic animals. 1. The commissioner shall cause a physical examination and a tuberculin test to be made by competent and authorized veterinarians of all bovine animals, irrespective of age or sex, and cause all such bovine animals to be subjected to periodic retests when deemed necessary by the commissioner. The commissioner […]
§ 79. Examination at request of owner; segregation; grading of herds. The owner of a herd of cattle kept for dairy or breeding purposes within the state may apply to the commissioner for examination of his herd by the tuberculin, or other approved tests, subject to the following regulations: 1. The application therefor shall be […]
§ 80. Certificate to healthy herds. For the purpose of giving recognition to other than segregated herds which are certified to him, after competent examination satisfactory to him, to be in a healthy condition, the commissioner is hereby authorized to issue such certificates as he may deem proper to the owner of such herd; to […]
§ 81. Sale, removal or slaughter of animals affected with tuberculosis. No animal showing physical evidence of tuberculosis or in which such disease shall have been indicated as a result of the tuberculin test shall be sold, except under the supervision of the commissioner. No such animal shall be removed from the premises where examined, […]
§ 82. Appraisers. The commissioner may employ from time to time appraisers of condemned animals. The chief or any assistant veterinarian shall have all the powers of any appraiser of condemned animals under this article.
§ 83. Appraisal of diseased animals. Each animal directed to be slaughtered shall be appraised at its market value. The appraiser shall make and transmit to the commissioner a certificate of appraisal and shall deliver to the owner a copy of such appraisal certificate. If the owner is dissatisfied with the amount of the appraisal […]
§ 85. Destruction of animals; disposition of carcasses. The commissioner may prescribe rules for the destruction of animals affected with infectious or communicable disease, and for the proper disposal of their hides and carcasses and all objects which might carry infection or contagion. Whenever in his judgment necessary for the more speedy and economical suppression […]
§ 86. Post-mortem examination of animals. The carcass of every animal duly condemned and killed under the provisions of this article shall be examined by a veterinarian designated by the commissioner for the purpose of determining whether or not disease existed in such animal and the person making the examination shall file promptly with the […]
§ 87. Payments for animals killed. The commissioner shall determine all claims which may be presented to him for indemnity to owners of animals killed by the state under the provisions of this article, and shall file in his office a certificate of his determination and, provided the claim is determined complete, shall within five […]
§ 87-a. Domestic fowl and fertile eggs thereof. Domestic fowl and fertile eggs of domestic fowl are included within the meaning of the words “animal” and “domestic animal” as used in sections seventy-two, seventy-three, seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-six, seventy-seven, eighty-two, eighty-three, eighty-five, eighty-six and eighty-seven of this article.
§ 88. Indemnity. The following provisions shall govern the payment of indemnity to owners of animals killed pursuant to the provisions of this article: 1. In the case of a bovine animal so killed to prevent the spread of tuberculosis, the owner shall be entitled to receive the net proceeds of the sale of the […]
