§ 47-631 — Rules for tuberculin test

Kansas § 47-631

• Jurisdiction: Kansas
• Ch. 47: LIVESTOCK AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS
• Art. 6: PROTECTION OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS

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(a) The animal health commissioner, whenever the animal health commissioner deems it necessary, shall formulate and announce the rules under which the tuberculin test for tuberculosis in domestic animals shall be applied. For all proceedings pursuant to such application:
(1) No tuberculin shall be used other than that furnished by the United States government;
(2) no person other than one indicated for that purpose by the animal health commissioner shall inject any tuberculin into any animal in this state; and
(3) all charts giving the temperature and conditions existing at the time the animal was tested, accompanied by a history and description of the animal, shall be submitted, immediately after the test is made, to the state animal health commissioner. The animal health commissioner shall then render a decision thereon, which shall be final and shall be recorded in the office of the animal health commissioner.
(b) The state animal health commissioner shall immediately apply the quarantine and other regulations issued under the provisions of this act to animals found infected with tuberculosis.

Legislative History

L. 1911, ch. 312, § 22; L. 1915, ch. 351, § 1; L. 1919, ch. 225, § 1; R.S. 1923, 47-631; L. 1989, ch. 156, § 31; L. 2012, ch. 140, § 52; July 1.