CHAPTER 11

An Act to amend and reenact § 3-592 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the sale of anthrax germs, etc., without permission of State Vetert-

narian.
[H 153]
Approved February 8, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
an That § 3-592 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 3-592. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
buy, sell or have in possession, or to administer to livestock, or to permit
any other to administer to livestock, any product or biological preparation
containing attenuated or unattenuated spores or germs of anthrax or at-
tenuated or unattenuated Bang’s bacillus organisms, commonly called
vaccine, or unattenuated hog cholera virus, prepared as a preventative or
remedy for anthrax or for Bang’s disease * or hog cholera, without per-
mission in writing from the State Veterinarian for each such purchase,
sale or administration. Any person or persons permitted to administer any
such product or biological preparation shall furnish the State Veterinarian,
within ten days thereafter, a report of such administration, showing the
kind and amount and make or brand of the vaccine or virus used, when and
from whom purchased, where, when and by whom administered, including
all persons assisting in the administration, together with a description of
a animals to which administered, including the breed, age and sex of each

The State Veterinarian is authorized and empowered to examine and
est any living biological intended for use in livestock or poultry to deter-
rane tf it 18 safe, pure, potent and effective. The Board of Agriculture and
mmigration is authorized and empowered to make and promulgate rules
rte regulations providing for the limitation, prohibition, or use, of any
ological found to be unsafe, impure, impotent or ineffective.

An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.