N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 78: Examination of domestic animals

§ 78. Examination of domestic animals. 1. The commissioner shall

cause a physical examination and a tuberculin test to be made by

competent and authorized veterinarians of all bovine animals,

irrespective of age or sex, and cause all such bovine animals to be

subjected to periodic retests when deemed necessary by the commissioner.

The commissioner may also cause a physical examination and a tuberculin

test to be made by competent and authorized veterinarians of any

domestic animal or herds of domestic animals, irrespective of age or

sex, when deemed necessary in his or her judgment to prevent or suppress

disease. If, from such examination or test, any animal be deemed by the

commissioner to be infected with tuberculosis or any other communicable

disease or its condition be such as to render it undesirable for the

production of milk or meat, or a menace to the health of other animals

or persons, such animal shall be immediately removed from the herd,

slaughtered or otherwise disposed of as the commissioner may prescribe.

2. No person shall possess, maintain, transport, or otherwise handle

farmed deer except under conditions by which such animals are

biologically segregated from bovine animals in a manner prescribed by

the commissioner, provided however that such separation shall not be

required with respect to any farmed deer maintained under circumstances

where contact with bovine animals would not pose a threat to the state's

cattle population as determined by the commissioner pursuant to

regulation. For purposes of this subdivision: (a) "farmed deer" shall

mean members of family Cervidae which are raised or bred in confinement;

and (b) "bovine animals" shall mean cattle and bison. This subdivision

shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have

become a law.