CHAPTER 376

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-584 and 8-589 of the Code of Virginia,
relating, respectively, to condemnation or quarantine of cattle and
the duty of owners and custodians to submit cattle to certain ae

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Approved March 14, 1956
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 3-584 and 3-589 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:
§ 3-584. A report of all tests fer tuberculosis, para-tuberculosis and
Bang’s disease shall, within five days from the date of such tests, be made
to the Board. All cattle found, upon tests, to be affected with tuberculosis
or para-tuberculosis and all reacting positive to the agglutination test for
Bang’s disease in the laboratories of the Virginia Department of Agricul-
ture and Immigation shall be immediately condemned and quarantined by
the State Veterinarian or other veterinarians appointed or deputized.

§ 3-589. In every county where the State Veterinarian knows or
suspects tuberculosis, para-tuberculosis or Bang’s disease to exist, the
owners or custodians of cattle therein shall, upon demand of the State
Veterinarian, be compelled to submit cattle to tests for tuberculosis, para-
tuberculosis or Bang’s disease, on the premises where found, at such time
as the State Veterinarian shall designate after five days’ notice of the day
and time to the custodian and to the owner, or one of the several owners,
provided the owner, or one of the several owners, is in the county at the
time of service on the custodian and the officer serving the notice on the
custodian has actual knowledge of the ownership of the cattle. ,

Every person to whom the notice shall have been given, shall keep
the cattle separate from all other cattle in the enclosure in which they may
then be when notice is received; shall assemble and have the cattle which
are to be tested in reasonably close confinement on the premises on the day
and at the hour appointed in the notice, and shall assist the persons per-
forming the tests. Any person removing such cattle, or allowing their
removal or escape from such enclosure, or allowing them to come in con-
tact with other animals, or, without good cause, failing or refusing to
confine the cattle subject to the proposed test, or to assist in the tests, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less
than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.