54-742 Diseased animals; duty to report; livestock disease reporting system. - Nebraska Statutes

54-742. Diseased animals; duty to report; livestock disease reporting system.It is the duty of any person who discovers, suspects, or has reason to believe that any animal belonging to him or her or which he or she has in his or her possession or custody or which, belonging to another, may come under his or her observation is affected with any dangerous, infectious, contagious, or otherwise transmissible disease which affects livestock to immediately report such fact, belief, or suspicion to the department or to any agent, employee, or appointee thereof.The department shall work together with livestock health committees, livestock groups, diagnostic laboratories, practicing veterinarians, producers, and others who may be affected, to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate a workable livestock disease reporting system according to the provisions of this section. The rules and regulations shall establish who shall report diseases, what diseases shall be reported, how such diseases shall be reported, to whom diseases shall be reported, the method by which diseases shall be reported, and the frequency of reports required. For disease reporting purposes, the department shall categorize livestock diseases according to relative economic or health risk factors and may provide different reporting measures for the various categories. SourceLaws 1927, c. 12, art. VIII, § 1, p. 92; C.S.1929, § 54-938; R.S.1943, § 54-742; Laws 1993, LB 267, § 7; Laws 2001, LB 438, § 7. Cross ReferencesDefinitions for sections 54-742 to 54-753.05, see section 54-701.03.