TITLE 25

ANIMALS

CHAPTER 2

INSPECTION AND SUPPRESSION OF DISEASES AMONG LIVESTOCK

25-222.  Consent of division required for individual tests — Indemnity to owners for destroyed animals. It shall be unlawful for any person, except the representatives of the division, or the inspectors of the United States department of agriculture, to inject any tuberculin into any animal of the families bovidae, cervidae, antilocapridae, or camelidae or to conduct any other approved tuberculosis test on such animals in this state without first having been approved by the division to conduct such tests. All such tests shall be conducted in accordance with the rules and regulations of the division. The division shall be authorized and empowered to make and promulgate rules and regulations for the appraising and slaughtering or destroying of animals which are deemed to be affected with tuberculosis as determined through a tuberculin or other approved tuberculosis test, and to indemnify the owners when it becomes necessary to destroy such animals in order to control or eradicate tuberculosis and to protect the public health. The indemnity is to be made in accordance with the provisions of section 25-216, Idaho Code.

History:

[(25-222) 1919, ch. 35, sec. 17, p. 127; C.S., sec. 1859; I.C.A., sec. 24-222; am. 1974, ch. 18, sec. 117, p. 364; am. 1993, ch. 16, sec. 17, p. 65.]