Chap. 43.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1224 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to testing cattle for tuberculosis and
Bang’s disease. [H B 88]

Approved February 19, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twelve hundred and twenty-four of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1224. With the view to detecting, controlling and finally
eradicating the diseases known as tuberculosis and Bang’s disease from
cattle in Virginia, it shall be the duty of the State Board of Agriculture
and Immigration, at the request of the owner, except as hereinafter
provided, to have the tuberculin test applied to any cattle in Virginia
suspected of being affected with such disease, and the agglutination
test for Bang’s disease applied to any cattle in Virginia suspected of
being affected with Bang’s disease, such tests to be made under such
rules and regulations as said board may from time to time prescribe,
and through such agencies as it may appoint for such purpose.

In every county co-operating through action of its board of super-
visors with the State in its work and efforts to eradicate such diseases,
owners and custodians of cattle shall be compelled to submit them to
tuberculin testing and to tests for Bang’s disease on the premises
where found, or to which such cattle shall have been removed, at such
time or times as the board of supervisors of such county and the State
Veterinarian shall designate. The State Veterinarian shall give five
days’ notice of such time or times and of such place or places to the
owner of the cattle, or to the owner’s agent, or to the person in posses-
sion of such cattle.

All cattle found upon any tuberculin test or by any physical ex-
amination to be affected with tuberculosis, and all cattle reacting posi-
tive to the agglutination test for Bang’s disease in the laboratories of
the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Immigration shall be
condemned and promptly quarantined, and report thereof made to the
State Board of Agriculture and Immigration; all such cattle shall be
appraised at their fair cash value by three persons, one to be appointed
by the State board, or its duly authorized agent, one by the owner and
the other by the two thus selected, which appraisement shall be made
in writing and shall be returned to said board. After such appraisal
shall have been so made and returned, the owner or owners of such
diseased cattle shall cause them to be slaughtered within thirty days
from the date of such test or examination, and the carcasses disposed
of under such rules and regulations as said State board may prescribe,
and the proceeds thereof paid to the owner. All cattle affected with
tuberculosis shall be slaughtered under State or Federal supervision.

Report shall be made to the State Board of Agriculture and Immi-
gration of all tuberculin testing and Bang’s disease testing of cattle in
Virginia, whether such tests be made by agents of said board or by
other persons, within five days after such testing; to the end that the
public may have knowledge of this requirement, the said board shall
from time to time circularize this section and furnish copies thereof
to all veterinarians in the State.