§ 1161 - Fees for testing - Vermont Statutes

§ 1161. Fees for testing

(a) The secretary may assess fees necessary to cover the cost of testing poultry for contagious diseases.

(b) The secretary may negotiate appropriate compensation with those licensed veterinarians acting at his or her request. At minimum, these fees shall be $5.00 for each farm at which the veterinarian performs a tuberculosis test on an animal, $.75 for each animal tested in a stanchion barn and $1.50 for each animal tested in a loose-housing barn.

(c) The secretary may negotiate appropriate compensation with those licensed veterinarians acting at his or her request to test red deer, fallow deer or reindeer for tuberculosis. At minimum, these fees shall be $25.00 for each farm at which the veterinarian performs a tuberculosis test on such deer and $5.00 for each deer tested. (Added 1987, No. 276 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1989, No. 257 (Adj. Sess.), § 10; 1991, No. 153 (Adj. Sess.), § 15, eff. May 5, 1992; 1995, No. 72 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. Feb. 14, 1996; 2003, No. 42, § 2, eff. May 27, 2003.)