§ 15-17-7-1 — Testing; county appropriation; payment of expenses; animal health indemnity fund

(a) If the board determines that the cattle
within an accredited county must be tested for bovine tuberculosis to
conform with federal regulations governing the reaccreditation of the
county, the county council, subject to subsection (d), shall appropriate
a sufficient amount of money to perform the testing. The board shall
determine the amount of the appropriation based on the most reliable
source of information.
(b) The appropriation under subsection (a) must reflect the number
of cattle within the county, but may not exceed a tax levy of
seventy-five ten-thousandths (0.0075) per dollar of assessed valuation.
(c) The board, before July 1 of the year in which the appropriation
under subsection (a) is made, shall notify the county auditor to include
the appropriation in the county budget for the year in which the testing
of cattle for reaccreditation purposes will be done.
(d) Expenses related to bovine tuberculosis testing each calendar
year in a county under this chapter are payable as follows:
(1) Fifty percent (50%) from the county council.
(2) Fifty percent (50%) from the board.
(e) The board is responsible for paying, with funds appropriated to
the board in the state board of animal health indemnity fund, for the
board's share of expenses related to bovine tuberculosis testing in a
county.
[Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-7-1.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.59-2017, SEC.1.