CHAPTER 437

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-590 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
compensation of owners of certain animals condemned and destroyed
to prevent spread of certain diseases.

(S 386]

Approved April 3, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

a That § 3-590 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 3-590. In addition to the amount received for the carcasses of
animals slaughtered, further compensation will be paid to the owners by
the Board out of funds appropriated for that purpose at a rate not ex-
ceeding * thirty dollars for a grade or unregistered animal and * sizty
dollars for a purebred 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 appropriation, exceed * two-thirds of the differ-
ence between the appraised and salvage values; provided, however, that
when federal funds are available to partially compensate owners no pay-
ment from State funds shall exceed fifteen dollars for a grade or unregis-
tered animal or thirty dollars for a purebred registered animal, nor shall
the amount received by the owner, out of State funds, exceed one-third of
the difference between the apraised and salvage values. 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
subjected to and passed at least one negative test for the disease for which
it shall have been slaughtered. No payment shall be made on the account
of the slaughter of any animal if the animal has been vaccinated with any
product or biological preparation containing attenuated or unattenuated
Bang’s disease bacillus organism prepared as a preventive or remedy for
Bang’s disease after the animal is eight months of age or over. No pay-
ment shall be made on account of the slaughter of any animal, if such
animal has been vaccinated with any product or biological preparation
containing attenuated or unattenuated Bang’s bacillus organisms prepared
as a preventive or a remedy for Bang’s disease before the 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 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 appropriations.

Not more than ten per centum of any funds appropriated by the State
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 shall otherwise determine.