CHAPTER 49

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8.1-754 and 3.1-756 of Article 8, Chap-
ter 27, of Title 3.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the condem-
nation of and compensation for diseased animals and the buying, etc.,
or administering of hog cholera virus without permission. & 160

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Approved February 21, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 3.1-754 and 3.1-756 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:
§ 3.1-754. Additional compensation to owners of slaughtered ani-
mals: liability of purchaser of condemned anima].—In addition to the
amount received for the carcasses of animals slaughtered, further compen-
sation * may be paid to the owners by the Board out of funds appro-
priated for that purpose at a rate not exceeding thirty dollars for a grade
or unregistered animal and sixty 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 the State appropriation,
exceed two thirds of the difference between the appraised and salvage
values; provided, however, that when federal funds are available to
partially compensate owners no payment from State funds shall exceed
fifteen dollars for a grade or unregistered 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 ap-
praised and salvage values. *

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.

§ 3.1-756. Unlawful to buy, etc., or administer anthrax germs or hog
cholera virus without permission; report of product administered; testing
of living biologicals for use in livestock or poultry; rules as to unsafe, etc.,
biologicals.—lt 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 com-
monly called vaccine, or * mon-inactivated hog cholera virus, prepared
as a preventative or remedy for anthrax or hog cholera, without permis-
sion 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
all animals to which administered, including the breed, age and sex of
each animal.

The State Veterinarian is authorized and empowered to examine and
test any living biological intended for use in livestock or poultry to deter-
mine if it is safe, pure, potent * or effective. The Board of Agriculture
and Immigration is authorized and empowered to make and promulgate
rules and regulations providing for the limitation, prohibition, or use,
of any biological found to be unsafe, impure, impotent or ineffective.