Sec. 22-312. Requirements concerning dairy cattle and goats. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 22-312. Requirements concerning dairy cattle and goats. All neat cattle and goats brought into the state for dairy and breeding purposes shall be held in quarantine at the expense of the owner for a period not exceeding sixty days and not released from such quarantine until they have passed a tuberculin test at the owner's expense satisfactory to the commissioner, unless the livestock sanitary official of the state from which such cattle or goats were brought certifies that such cattle or goats came from an accredited herd or a herd in the process of accreditation, the entire number of which herd has passed successfully one tuberculin test without a reactor. No dairy or breeding cattle or goats which have been tested by the blood agglutination test for brucellosis and have given a positive or suspicious reaction shall be shipped, trailed or otherwise moved into this state. The veterinarian issuing an official health certificate covering the movement of dairy or breeding cattle or goats into this state shall certify that no cattle or goats contained in such shipment have shown a positive or suspicious reaction to the blood agglutination test for brucellosis.

      (1949 Rev., S. 3363; P.A. 77-267, S. 8.)

      History: P.A. 77-267 made provisions applicable to goats in addition to cattle.