150.720 Administrative regulations relating to cervids -- Costs resulting from importation of diseased animal. - Kentucky Statutes

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Page 1 of 1 150.720 Administrative regulations relating to cervids -- Costs resulting from importation of diseased animal. (1) The Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources shall promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to health
requirements, eradication of diseases, importation and unique individual
identification, including visual identification tags, of privately owned and farm
raised cervids maintained for the production of meat and other products. Nothing in
this section shall limit the authority of the Department of Fish and Wildlife
Resources to regulate the unique individual identification, including visual
identification, of captive cervids that are not privately owned and farm-raised
cervids maintained for the production of meat and other products. The Department
of Fish and Wildlife Resources, in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture,
shall promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to the holding of cervids. (2) If any person imports a diseased animal into the Commonwealth in violation of the statutes and administrative regulations, then that person shall be responsible to the
Department of Agriculture and the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources for
all costs incurred in the investigation, response, and eradication of that disease. Effective: June 25, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 2, effective June 25, 2009. -- Created 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 88, sec. 1, effective March 28, 2002.