Sec. 12.
(1) The director may issue a quarantine on animals, equipment, vehicles, structures, premises, or any area in the state, including the entire state if necessary, for the purpose of controlling or preventing the spread of a known or suspected infectious, contagious, or toxicological disease.
(2) A person shall not move animals that are under quarantine without permission from the director.
(3) A person shall not allow animals under quarantine to mingle or have contact with other animals not under quarantine without permission by the director.
(4) A person shall not import into this state an animal from another state or jurisdiction if that animal is under quarantine by the other state or jurisdiction unless that person obtains prior permission from the director.
(5) A person shall not import into this state an animal species, including a genetically engineered organism that is a variant of that species, from an area under quarantine for that species for any infectious, contagious, or toxicological disease unless permission is granted from the director.
(6) The director may prescribe procedures for the identification, inventory, separation, mode of handling, testing, treatment, feeding, and caring for both quarantined animals and animals within a quarantined area to prevent the infection or exposure of nonquarantined or quarantined animals to infectious, contagious, or toxicological diseases.
(7) The director may prescribe procedures required before any animal, structure, premises, or area or zone in this state, including the entirety of the state if necessary, are released from quarantine.
(8) An animal found running at large in violation of a quarantine may be killed by a law enforcement agency. The director may enlist the cooperation of a law enforcement agency to enforce the provisions of this quarantine. A law enforcement agency killing an animal due to a quarantine under this section is not subject to liability for the animal.
History: 1988, Act 466, Eff. Mar. 28, 1989 ;-- Am. 1990, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 29, 1990 ;-- Am. 1994, Act 41, Imd. Eff. Mar. 14, 1994 ;-- Am. 1996, Act 369, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1996 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 323, Imd. Eff. Oct. 31, 2000 ;-- Am. 2002, Act 458, Imd. Eff. June 21, 2002 ;-- Am. 2003, Act 271, Eff. Mar. 30, 2004
Last modified: October 10, 2016