CHAPTER 506

An Act to prevent the spread of vesicular diseases and other diseases of
swine by prohibiting the feeding of garbage to swine without first
obtaining a permit from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immi-
gration and to provide penalties for violations.

[S 300]
Approved April 5, 1954

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Definitions.—

(a) “Garbage” shall mean all putrescible animal and vegetable wastes
resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of foods
containing animal carcasses or parts thereof.

“Raw garbage” shall mean all garbage which may contain animal car-
casses or parts thereof regardless of previous processing, which before
being fed to swine, has not been heated or otherwise treated so as to destroy
the contagion of vesicular disease.

“Cooked garbage” shall mean all garbage which may contain animal
carcasses or parts thereof regardless of previous processing which before
being fed to swine, has been thoroughly heated to at least two hundred
twelve degrees Fahrenheit for at least thirty minutes so as to destroy the
contagion of vesicular disease.

“Person” shall mean any person, firm, partnership, corporation, in-
stitution or agency of the State of Virginia, or of any county, city, or town.
The term shall not apply to persons feeding domestic household garbage
originating on the premises where fed, nor shall the term apply to
persons feeding garbage to swine where such swine are slaughtered,
stored and consumed on the premises where fed.

§ 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to feed or knowingly allow
any other person to feed any raw garbage to swine on his premises or any
premises over which he has any control.

§ 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to feed garbage to swine with-
out first obtaining a permit for such feeding from the Commissioner of
Agriculture and Immigration of Virginia. A separate permit shall be re-
quired for each location upon which such garbage feeding operations are to
be carried on or conducted. The permits issued hereunder shall be renewed
annually and all permits shall expire on June thirty of each year.

§ 4. Application for such permit shall be made annually to the Com-
missioner of Agriculture and Immigration in writing on forms to be fur-
nished by the Commissioner. Such application shall set forth the name
of the applicant, whether a person, firm, partnership, association, corpora-
tion or other entity ; the address of the applicant, the location of the garbage
feeding operation for which the permit is sought; a brief description and
location of the facilities for the treatment of garbage and such other in-
formation as the Commissioner may require. _

The application shall be accompanied by a fee of one hundred dollars
provided, however, that if the application is submitted during the last
half of the permit year, then it shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty dollars.
The fees collected are hereby appropriated to the Board of Agriculture
and Immigration for the purpose of enforcing this act and the regulations
authorized herein. :

§ 5. The State Board of Agriculture and Immigration shall have au-
thority and at its discretion may adopt and enforce regulations regarding
the feeding, hauling, handling, transportation on the highways of the Com-
monwealth of garbage and garbage-fed swine. The said Board also may,
at its discretion provide for the regular inspection of premises where
garbage is fed to swine and may adopt and enforce such regulations as it
deems necessary regarding the sanitation of such premises and methods
and practices involved in the processing and feeding of garbage to swine.

§ 6. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this act 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. Each day upon
which such violation occurs shall constitute a separate offense. In addition
to the penalties herein provided, such person may be enjoined from con-
tinuing such violation.