General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 129 Livestock Disease Control
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 129, Section 1
The following words as used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings: “Agents”, employees of the division of animal...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of director; orders - Chapter 129, Section 2
The director may make and enforce reasonable orders, rules and regulations relative to the following: the sanitary condition of neat cattle, other ruminants and swine...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records of inspectors; forms - Chapter 129, Section 3
The director shall make and prescribe forms for records of inspectors, certificates of examination, notices and orders of quarantine, notices and orders for killing and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certification of documents by clerk - Chapter 129, Section 4
The director may designate an employee of the division as clerk who shall keep the records of the division, shall certify copies of such records...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry of orders, rules and regulations on records; publication - Chapter 129, Section 5
All orders, rules and regulations made by the director shall be entered on the records of his division and a copy thereof shall be sent...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Aid to director and inspectors by sheriffs, constables and police officers - Chapter 129, Section 6
Sheriffs, constables and police officers shall upon request of the director or an inspector assist him in the performance of his duties and shall have...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry on premises - Chapter 129, Section 7
For the purpose of inspecting or examining animals or the places where they are kept, the director, any of his agents or an inspector, duly...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hospitals and quarantine stations - Chapter 129, Section 8
The director may establish hospitals or quarantine stations, with proper accommodations, wherein, under prescribed regulations, animals selected by him may be confined and treated for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 397 - Chapter 129, Section 8A
Repealed, 1966,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Animal Rescue League of Boston; agents; powers and duties - Chapter 129, Section 9
The agents of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the agents of the Animal Rescue League of Boston may visit...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of persons under oath; mandatory attendance and testimony of witnesses - Chapter 129, Section 10
The director may examine on oath all persons who are believed to possess knowledge of material facts relative to the existence or dissemination, or danger...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Isolation or destruction of diseased animals; post mortem examination - Chapter 129, Section 11
If the director, or one of his agents, by examination of a case of contagious disease of domestic animals, except foot and mouth disease, is...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1922, 353, Sec. 4 - Chapter 129, Section 12
Repealed, 1922, 353, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 398 - Chapter 129, Section 12A
Repealed, 1966,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 399 - Chapter 129, Section 13
Repealed, 1966,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction of animals affected with scrapie; partial compensation - Chapter 129, Section 13A
All sheep and other domestic animals which are affected with, or have been exposed to, scrapie shall be destroyed when, in the opinion of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction of animals affected with foot and mouth disease; disinfection or destruction of buildings - Chapter 129, Section 14
All neat cattle and other domestic animals, which are affected with, or have been exposed to, foot and mouth disease, shall be destroyed when, in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Quarantine or destruction of animals affected with vesicular stomatitis or vesicular exanthema - Chapter 129, Section 14A
All domestic animals which are affected with vesicular stomatitis, or vesicular exanthema, as determined by the director, shall be quarantined. Animals which are affected with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Feeding garbage to swine - Chapter 129, Section 14B
The word “garbage” means any meat waste, or meat waste combined with any other food waste, resulting from handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of foods,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hog cholera; slaughtering of hogs; payment to owners - Chapter 129, Section 14C
All hogs which are affected with, or have been exposed to, hog cholera, shall be quarantined and appraised by an appraiser of the division of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hogs affected with brucellosis; quarantine and testing - Chapter 129, Section 14D
All hogs which are affected with, or have been exposed to brucellosis shall be quarantined and tested by the director or his agent, or by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Breeding, feeder or slaughter swine imported into commonwealth - Chapter 129, Section 14E
All breeding swine imported into the commonwealth shall enter directly from a qualified-free herd, as indicated by a health certificate, and shall be negative to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspector of animals; appointment - Chapter 129, Section 15
The city manager in cities having a plan D or plan E charter, the mayor in all other cities, except Boston, the town manager in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal or neglect of town to appoint inspector; appointment by director - Chapter 129, Section 16
A town shall, for each refusal or neglect of its officers to comply with the requirements of the preceding section, forfeit not more than five...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Oath of inspectors; compensation; reimbursement of towns - Chapter 129, Section 17
Each inspector shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his official duties, and shall receive from the town for which he is appointed reasonable...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of inspectors - Chapter 129, Section 18
Each inspector shall comply with and enforce all orders and regulations directed to him by the director. If he refuses or neglects so to do,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspections of domestic animals - Chapter 129, Section 19
Inspectors shall make regular and thorough inspections of all neat cattle, sheep and swine found within the limits of their respective towns. Such inspections shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of healthy condition - Chapter 129, Section 20
An inspector who is satisfied, upon an examination of any neat cattle, sheep or swine, that they are free from contagious disease, shall deliver to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Quarantine of diseased animals; notice or order; records - Chapter 129, Section 21
An inspector who, upon an examination of a domestic animal, suspects, or has reason to believe, that it is affected with a contagious disease shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Service of notice or order of quarantine; return; evidence - Chapter 129, Section 22
Such notice or order may be served by an inspector or officer qualified to serve civil process, by delivery in hand to, or leaving at...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dogs owned by police departments or agencies - Chapter 129, Section 22A
The provisions of sections twenty-one and twenty-two shall not apply to dogs owned by police departments or police agencies of the commonwealth or any of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of buildings; report - Chapter 129, Section 23
Inspectors shall, in addition to their inspections of animals for contagious diseases, examine the places in which neat cattle are kept, with reference to their...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of quarantine - Chapter 129, Section 24
An inspector who has caused a domestic animal to be quarantined, as provided in section twenty-one, shall immediately give a written notice thereof, with a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records of inspectors of animals; returns - Chapter 129, Section 25
Each inspector shall keep a record of all inspections made by him and of his doings therein, and shall make regular returns thereof to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter to inspectors in Boston - Chapter 129, Section 26
The provisions of this chapter relative to the duties of inspectors shall apply to persons officially performing the functions of inspectors in Boston.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Shipping cattle into commonwealth without inspection; certificate of health - Chapter 129, Section 26A
Whoever ships, drives or transports into the commonwealth cattle to be used for dairy purposes, unless they have been inspected or passed as healthy by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hatching eggs; baby chicks or live poultry; restriction on sale, transportation or importation - Chapter 129, Section 26B
No person shall buy, sell or transport within or import into the commonwealth hatching eggs, baby chicks or live poultry, except poultry intended for immediate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Seizure, quarantine and destruction of imported diseased animals - Chapter 129, Section 27
Animals brought into this commonwealth from places which in the opinion of the director are infected, may be seized and quarantined by the director at...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of contagious disease to director - Chapter 129, Section 28
The board of health of a town, any member or agent thereof or any other person who has knowledge of or reason to suspect the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expense of quarantine - Chapter 129, Section 29
If animals have been quarantined, collected or isolated upon the premises of the owner or of the person in possession of them at the time...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of quarantine; release; violation of quarantine; penalty - Chapter 129, Section 30
An animal which has been quarantined or isolated by order of the director or of his agent, or of an inspector, shall, during the continuance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Damages; arbitration; petition for assessment of damages - Chapter 129, Section 31
If an owner is entitled to compensation for the killing of an animal or the destruction of other property under this chapter, and cannot agree...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Shipping or delivering tuberculin within commonwealth; statement as to use; application to common carriers - Chapter 129, Section 31A
Every person who, himself or by his servant or agent, ships from a place within the commonwealth or otherwise delivers any tuberculin to a person...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of tuberculin as diagnostic agent; tests - Chapter 129, Section 32
Tuberculin as a diagnostic agent for the detection of tuberculosis in domestic animals shall be used only upon cattle brought into the commonwealth and upon...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation for animals reacting to tuberculin test; appraisals - Chapter 129, Section 33
Except as otherwise provided, a person who has animals tested with tuberculin shall not be entitled to compensation from the commonwealth for any animals which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Identification of reacting bovine animals; removal of tag; disposition of tagged animals - Chapter 129, Section 33A
Any bovine animal which reacts to a tuberculin test shall immediately be tagged for identification by the veterinarian, who has applied such test, by inserting...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Declaration of quarantine areas; tuberculin tests of bovine animals; modified accredited areas; violation of terms of quarantine - Chapter 129, Section 33B
The director may, upon application to him by not less than seventy-five per cent of the cattle owners owning cattle permanently kept in any city...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Declaration of quarantine area; tests for brucellosis of bovine animals; modified certified brucellosis free area; violation of terms of quarantine - Chapter 129, Section 33C
The director may upon application to him by not less than seventy-five per cent of the cattle owners owning cattle permanently kept in any city,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tests for detection of brucellosis; identification of animals; destruction - Chapter 129, Section 33D
Prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, the director may, upon written application of the owner, test cattle and thereafter shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation to violators of regulations - Chapter 129, Section 34
No compensation shall be allowed by the commonwealth to an owner of condemned cattle who has failed to comply with the reasonable regulations of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Driving certain cattle on public ways or roads - Chapter 129, Section 35
Texan, Mexican, Cherokee, Indian or other cattle, which the director has reason to believe may spread contagious disease, shall not be driven on any public...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of contagious diseases - Chapter 129, Section 36
Whoever kills an animal or causes it to be killed, with the consent of the owner or person in possession thereof, upon suspicion that it...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1941, 607, Sec. 2 - Chapter 129, Section 36A
Repealed, 1941, 607, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Vaccination of female calves; identification of positive reactors; transportation of unvaccinated bovine animals - Chapter 129, Section 36B
The director shall cause all female calves to be vaccinated against brucellosis, commonly known as bangs disease, when they are from the ages of four...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1941, 607, Sec. 2 - Chapter 129, Section 36C
Repealed, 1941, 607, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Importation of vaccinated animals; conditions - Chapter 129, Section 36D
Vaccinated animals which are over eighteen months of age may be imported into the commonwealth if within thirty days prior to entry they have reacted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Importation of unvaccinated female cattle over five months of age - Chapter 129, Section 36E
Subject to rules promulgated by the commissioner of food and agriculture, the director may prohibit the importation of female cattle, for breeding purposes, over five...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Brucellosis, imported cattle, blood testing - Chapter 129, Section 36F
The director, his authorized agent or a duly licensed veterinarian designated by the director may conduct such blood tests for brucellosis of all cattle imported...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement of owners for slaughter of animals reacting positively to blood test for brucellosis; appraisal - Chapter 129, Section 36G
If any animal tested by an approved licensed veterinarian designated by the director under this section reacts positively to an approved blood test for brucellosis...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Waiver of compliance with Secs. 36B, 36D to 36F - Chapter 129, Section 36H
The director may after a hearing grant, in suitable cases, waivers of compliance with the provisions of sections thirty-six B, thirty-six D, thirty-six E and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement actions; jurisdiction of commissioner of agriculture, district and superior courts - Chapter 129, Section 37
As used in this section, the word “commissioner” shall mean the commissioner of agriculture or his designee, and any rules, regulations, orders, licenses or permits...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report - Chapter 129, Section 38
The commissioner of food and agriculture shall make an annual report of the acts of the director, including therein the information obtained from inspectors under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of persons dealing in bovine and porcine animals; fee - Chapter 129, Section 39
Every person engaging in the business of dealing in bovine and porcine animals shall obtain a license therefor from the director, the fee for which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pet shops; licensing operation; animal health inspections - Chapter 129, Section 39A
Every person engaged in the business of operating a pet shop, shall obtain a license therefor from the director, the fee for which shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Guard dog businesses; licenses - Chapter 129, Section 39B
Every person engaged in operating a guard dog business shall obtain a license therefor from the director, the fee for which shall be determined annually...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hearing dog business; licenses - Chapter 129, Section 39C
Every person engaged in the hearing dog business shall obtain a license therefor from the director, the fee for which shall be determined annually by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hearing dog business; access to public facilities - Chapter 129, Section 39D
A person engaged in the hearing dog business, while actually engaged in the training process and activities of hearing dogs, shall have the same rights,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Livestock auction business; licenses - Chapter 129, Section 39E
As used in the section, the word “livestock” shall include all bovine, ovine, caprine, porcine, equine animals and poultry. The word “poultry” shall include all...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Service dogs; trainer rights - Chapter 129, Section 39F
A person accompanied by and engaged in the raising or training of a service dog, including a hearing, guide or assistance dog, shall have the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Official health certificate requirement for dog or cat brought or shipped into commonwealth; purchase of animal for resale; vaccination record; devocalization prohibited - Chapter 129, Section 39G
(a) A dog or cat brought or shipped into the commonwealth shall be accompanied by an official health certificate issued by an accredited veterinarian, a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License plates for vehicles used for transportation of bovine or porcine animals; fee; revocation - Chapter 129, Section 40
Each vehicle used for the transportation of bovine or porcine animals by any person engaged in the business of dealing in such animals, when operated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hog cholera vaccine; prohibited use - Chapter 129, Section 40A
No person shall use, sell, expose for sale, deliver, give away, have in his possession, introduce or deliver for introduction into commerce any hog cholera
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bill of sale or memorandum signed by owner of persons transporting bovine animals; exhibition on demand - Chapter 129, Section 41
All persons who transport bovine animals upon any public way in connection with the purchase or sale thereof, shall have in their possession a bill...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tagging bovine animal with identification tag - Chapter 129, Section 42
No person, other than a licensed veterinarian or an agent of the director, shall tag a bovine animal with a state or federal identification tag.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties for violation of Secs. 39 to 42 - Chapter 129, Section 43
Whoever violates any provisions of sections thirty-nine to forty-two, inclusive, or of any rule or regulation made under section thirty-nine or thirty-nine A, shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Testing of imported equine animals for infectious anemia; certification - Chapter 129, Section 44
No person shall import into the commonwealth any equine animal without a certificate relative to such animal from a laboratory approved by the United States...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction or quarantine of infected equine animals - Chapter 129, Section 44A
Any equine animal positive to a test approved by the United States Department of Agriculture for the detection of equine infectious anemia may be humanely...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License to deal in or auction equine animals - Chapter 129, Section 45
Every person engaging in the business of dealing in equine animals or auction of said animals and tack shall obtain a license therefor from the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License plates for vehicles transporting equine animals - Chapter 129, Section 46
Each vehicle used for the transportation of equine animals by any person engaged in the business of dealing with such animals, when operated on any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bill of sale or memorandum - Chapter 129, Section 47
A person who transports equine animals for immediate slaughter upon any public way in connection with the purchase or sale thereof, shall have in his...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations, penalties - Chapter 129, Section 48
Whoever violates any provisions of section forty-five to forty-seven, inclusive, or any rule or regulation made under section forty-five shall be punished for the first...
Last modified: September 11, 2015