Health requirements - 3 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 2323

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     § 2323.  Health requirements.
        (a)  Interstate and intrastate movement of domestic
     animals.--The department may establish identification and
     minimum health standards for the importation or the intrastate
     movement of domestic animals in this Commonwealth and may
     establish procedures for certification of the health status of
     domestic animals imported into or transported within this
     Commonwealth. If the department shall suspect the genuineness of
     any health certificate or official disease test report relating
     to domestic animals or shall question the competency of the
     person who shall have issued such report or certificate, the
     department may decline to accept the same and may refuse to
     permit the importation or intrastate movement of the domestic
     animals concerned unless a certificate or report is furnished
     from the proper inspector of the state or country of origin or
     USDA-APHIS-VS or unless the department shall otherwise
     determine.
        (b)  Violations.--
            (1)  It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly,
        recklessly or negligently import or bring into this
        Commonwealth without the written permission of the department
        any domestic animal that is contaminated with a hazardous
        substance or that is infected with or that has been exposed
        to any transmissible disease.
            (2)  It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly,
        recklessly or negligently import or bring into this
        Commonwealth any domestic animal in violation of any of the
        provisions of this chapter, an order entered under authority
        of this chapter or any attendant regulation to prevent the
        introduction of any transmissible disease.
            (3)  It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly,
        recklessly or negligently receive or keep or have in his
        keeping or possession any domestic animal imported, brought
        into or transported within this Commonwealth in violation of
        any of the provisions of this chapter or to allow any such
        domestic animal to come into contact with any other domestic
        animal.
        (c)  Authority to remove or slaughter.--Whenever any domestic
     animal is imported into this Commonwealth or transported within
     this Commonwealth in violation of this chapter, the department
     shall have authority to cause such domestic animal to be removed
     from this Commonwealth or the domestic animal removed directly
     to slaughter or destroyed without indemnity.

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