N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 1 § 52.3

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 50, December 11, 2024

Section 52.3 - Disease control program; garbage feeding and hog cholera

(a) Whereas garbage fed to swine contributes to the spread of hog cholera, and whereas, there have been in recent times outbreaks of hog cholera in states contiguous to New York State, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets hereby adopts and institutes a program for the prevention, control, suppression and eradication of that disease, with particular regard to, but not limited to, the practice of feeding garbage to swine.

(b) Whenever any veterinarian, inspector or other employee of the Department of Agriculture and Markets has any reasonable grounds to believe that garbage is being fed to swine in violation of section 72-a of the Agriculture and Markets Law, he shall immediately quarantine the premises on which the swine are kept.

(c) While any such quarantine is in effect, no person shall remove or allow the removal of any swine from the premises quarantined, nor bring on or allow to be brought on the premises any additional swine, without the prior written permission of the commissioner.

(d) The owner or harborer of any swine kept on ay premises quarantined shall, on or at the premises where such animals are kept, present and restrain such animals for identification by tattooing or other method of identification approved by the commissioner at such times as the commissioner on not less than 48 hours notice shall direct.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 1 § 52.3