Prohibition against disposing of diseased livestock, parts of quarantined livestock or unvaccinated female cattle; exceptions.

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(a) To a slaughterer or to a rendering plant; or

(b) Pursuant to, and as authorized by, a quarantine order.

(2) A person may not sell, offer to sell or dispose of the meat, milk or other parts of any livestock, quarantined by the State Department of Agriculture, for food or other purposes, except as authorized by the quarantine order.

(3) A person may not sell or offer for sale, for any purpose other than slaughter or to a feedlot or other normal and usual feeding facility for slaughter within 12 months of sale, any female cattle of a beef breed that have not been vaccinated against brucellosis as evidenced by an official vaccination tattoo in the right ear of each animal.

(4) A person may not sell or offer for sale, for any purpose other than slaughter, any female cattle of a dairy breed that have not been vaccinated against brucellosis as evidenced by an official vaccination tattoo in the right ear of each animal. [1955 c.557 §14 (enacted in lieu of 596.340); 1983 c.79 §2; 1985 c.91 §1; 1987 c.909 §1; 1991 c.420 §2; 1999 c.102 §2; 2001 c.22 §2; 2003 c.14 §358]


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