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Disease surveillance and detection - 3 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 2327

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     § 2327.  Disease surveillance and detection.
        (a)  General authority.--The department shall have the
     authority to regularly monitor the domestic animal population of
     this Commonwealth to determine the prevalence, incidence and
     location of transmissible diseases or contamination by hazardous
     substances.
        (b)  Duty to report.--It shall be the duty of every
     practitioner of veterinary medicine and every diagnostic
     laboratory in this Commonwealth, immediately upon receiving
     information thereof, to report to the department each case of
     any dangerous transmissible disease and each case of potential
     contamination by substances declared hazardous by the
     department.
        (c)  Violations.--
            (1)  It shall be unlawful for any person to impede,
        hinder or interfere with the testing of a domestic animal or
        to refuse to confine a domestic animal so as to allow testing
        without undue burden on the official conducting the test or
        to fail to present the person's domestic animals for testing
        by the department under authority of this chapter after
        reasonable notice of the proposed testing has been given.
            (2)  It shall be unlawful for any person who has
        knowledge that a domestic animal is infected with a dangerous
        transmissible disease or has been exposed to a dangerous
        transmissible disease or has been contaminated by a hazardous
        substance to conceal or attempt to conceal such domestic
        animal or knowledge of such a domestic animal from the
        department.
        (d)  Wild animals.--The department shall have the authority
     to solicit assistance from and provide assistance to Federal and
     other State agencies, local governments and private entities in
     monitoring wild animals in this Commonwealth to determine the
     presence of dangerous transmissible disease. This monitoring may
     be done in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Game Commission,
     the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, the United States
     Fish and Wildlife Service or any other private or governmental
     entity.

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