Chap. 275.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 916 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to compensation of owners of certain animals condemned
and destroyed to prevent spread of certain diseases. [S B 218]

Approved March 26, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section nine hundred sixteen of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 916. In addition to the amount received for the carcasses
of animals slaughtered, further compensation will be paid to the owners
by the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration out of funds ap-
propriated for that purpose at a rate not exceeding fifteen dollars for a
grade or unregistered animal and thirty dollars for a pure bred registered
animal, provided that the total amount received by the owner shall not
exceed the appraised value of such animal or animals; nor shall the
amount received by the owner of each animal slaughtered, out of State ap-
propriation, exceed one-third of the difference between the appraised and
salvage values; and provided, further, that no payment shall be made on
account of the slaughter of any animal which shall have been imported
into the State, unless and until such animal shall have been within this
State for at least one year, and while within this State, have been sub-
jected to and passed at least one negative test for the disease for which
it shall have been slaughtered; and provided further that no payment
shall be made on the account of the slaughter of any animal if said animal
has been vaccinated with any product or biological preparation containing
attenuated or unattenuated Bang’s disease bacillus organism prepared
as a preventative or remedy for Bang’s disease after the animal is eight
months of age or over, and provided further that no payment shall be
made on account of the slaughter of any animal, if preparation containing
attenuated or unattenuated Bang’s bacillus organisms prepared as a pre-
ventive or a remedy for Bang’s disease before said animal was eight
months of age, until the animal shall have passed one negative test for
Bang’s disease not less than eighteen months after the date of vaccination.

Whenever the owner selling an animal that has been condemned,
to another, is unable to obtain compensation out of State and Federal
appropriations because of the failure of the purchaser to furnish the seller
with such proof of slaughter as may be required, the purchaser shall, in
addition to the agreed purchase price, be liable to the seller for the
amounts he would otherwise receive out of State and Federal appropria-
tions.

Not more than ten per centum of any funds appropriated by the
State of Virginia for any fiscal year for the purposes herein set forth
shall be expended during such year for cattle so slaughtered in any one
county, unless the Board of Agriculture and Immigration shall other-
wise determine.

This act shall become effective on July one, ninteeen hundred forty-
SIX.