Kentucky Statutes 150.720 – Administrative regulations relating to cervids — Costs resulting from importation of diseased animal
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(1) The Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources shall promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to health requirements, eradication of diseases, importation and unique individual identification, including visual identification tags, of privately owned and farm raised cervids maintained for the production of meat and other products. Nothing in this section shall limit the authority of the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to regulate the unique individual identification, including visual identification, of captive cervids that are not privately owned and farm-raised cervids maintained for the production of meat and other products. The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, shall promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to the holding of cervids.
(2) If any person imports a diseased animal into the Commonwealth in violation of the statutes and administrative regulations, then that person shall be responsible to the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources for all costs incurred in the investigation, response, and eradication of that disease.
Effective: June 25, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 2, effective June 25, 2009. — Created
2002 Ky. Acts ch. 88, sec. 1, effective March 28, 2002.
(2) If any person imports a diseased animal into the Commonwealth in violation of the statutes and administrative regulations, then that person shall be responsible to the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources for all costs incurred in the investigation, response, and eradication of that disease.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 150.720
- Animal: includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Department: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Wildlife: means any normally undomesticated animal, alive or dead, including without limitations any wild mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, or other terrestrial or aquatic life, whether or not possessed in controlled environment, bred, hatched, or born in captivity and including any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof, protected or unprotected by this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
Effective: June 25, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 2, effective June 25, 2009. — Created
2002 Ky. Acts ch. 88, sec. 1, effective March 28, 2002.