Chapter 129 - LIVESTOCK DISEASE CONTROL
- Section 129:1 - Definitions
- Section 129:2 - Livestock disease control; powers and duties of director; orders
- Section 129:3 - Records of inspectors; forms
- Section 129:4 - Certification of documents by clerk
- Section 129:5 - Entry of orders, rules and regulations on records; sending copies to inspectors; publication
- Section 129:6 - Aid to director and inspectors by sheriffs, constables and police officers
- Section 129:7 - Entry on premises
- Section 129:8 - Hospitals and quarantine stations
- Section 129:9 - Massachusetts society for the prevention of cruelty to animals; animal rescue league of Boston; agents; powers and duties
- Section 129:10 - Examination of persons under oath; mandatory attendance and testimony of witnesses; expenses; evidence
- Section 129:11 - Isolation or destruction of diseased animals; order; expense; post mortem examination
- Section 129:13A - Destruction of animals affected with scrapie; partial compensation
- Section 129:14 - Destruction of cattle or animals affected with foot and mouth disease; order; disinfection or destruction of buildings
- Section 129:14A - Quarantine or destruction of animals affected with vesicular stomatitis or vesicular exanthema; importations into commonwealth; cleansing and disinfection of buildings
- Section 129:14B - Feeding garbage to swine; definitions; permit; application; revocation; processing of garbage; inspection of premises; entry; records
- Section 129:14C - Hog cholera; slaughtering of hogs; payment to owners
- Section 129:14D - Hogs affected with brucellosis; quarantine and testing; importation, inspection; slaughtering, payment to owners
- Section 129:14E - Breeding, feeder or slaughter swine imported into commonwealth
- Section 129:15 - Inspector of animals; appointment
- Section 129:16 - Refusal or neglect of town to appoint inspector; appointment by director
- Section 129:17 - Oath of inspectors; compensation; reimbursement of towns
- Section 129:18 - Duties of inspectors; training programs
- Section 129:19 - Inspections of domestic animals
- Section 129:20 - Certificate of healthy condition
- Section 129:21 - Quarantine of diseased animals; notice or order; records
- Section 129:22 - Service of notice or order of quarantine; return; evidence
- Section 129:22A - Dogs owned by police departments or agencies
- Section 129:23 - Examination of buildings; report
- Section 129:24 - Notice of quarantine
- Section 129:25 - Records of inspectors of animals
- Section 129:26 - Application of chapter to inspectors in Boston
- Section 129:26A - Shipping cattle into commonwealth without inspection; certificate of health
- Section 129:26B - Hatching eggs; baby chicks or live poultry; restriction on sale, transportation or importation
- Section 129:27 - Seizure, quarantine and destruction of imported diseased animals
- Section 129:28 - Notice of contagious disease to director
- Section 129:29 - Expense of quarantine
- Section 129:30 - Effect of quarantine; release; violation of quarantine; penalty
- Section 129:31 - Damages; arbitration; petition for assessment of damages
- Section 129:31A - Shipping or delivering tuberculin within commonwealth; statement as to use; application to common carriers
- Section 129:32 - Use of tuberculin as diagnostic agent; tests
- Section 129:33 - Compensation for animals reacting to tuberculin test; rules and regulations; appraisals; award
- Section 129:33A - Identification of reacting bovine animals; removal of tag; disposition of tagged animals
- Section 129:33B - Declaration of quarantine areas; tuberculin tests of bovine animals; modified accredited areas; violation of terms of quarantine
- Section 129:33C - Declaration of quarantine area; tests for brucellosis of bovine animals; modified certified brucellosis free area; violation of terms of quarantine
- Section 129:33D - Tests for detection of brucellosis; applications; identification of animals; destruction; disposition where test doubtful
- Section 129:34 - Compensation to violators of regulations
- Section 129:35 - Driving certain cattle on public ways or roads
- Section 129:36 - Notice of contagious diseases
- Section 129:36B - Vaccination of female calves; refusal to have calves vaccinated; report of veterinarian; identification of positive reactors; transportation of unvaccinated bovine animals
- Section 129:36D - Importation of vaccinated animals; conditions
- Section 129:36E - Importation of unvaccinated female cattle over five months of age; certificate
- Section 129:36F - Brucellosis, imported cattle, blood testing
- Section 129:36G - Reimbursement of owners for slaughter of animals reacting positively to blood test for brucellosis; appraisal
- Section 129:36H - Waiver of compliance with Secs. 36B, 36D to 36F
- Section 129:37 - Jurisdiction of superior court
- Section 129:38 - Annual report
- Section 129:39 - Licensing of persons dealing in bovine and porcine animals; fee; rules and regulations
- Section 129:39A - Pet shops; licensing, necessity, fees, term, issuance, revocation; operation; animals, health inspections
- Section 129:39B - Guard dog businesses; licenses; rules and regulations
- Section 129:39C - Hearing dog business; licenses
- Section 129:39D - Hearing dog business; access to public facilities
- Section 129:39E - Livestock auction business; licenses
- Section 129:39F - Service dogs; trainer rights
- Section 129:39G - Official health certificate for dogs or cats brought or shipped into commonwealth; purchase of animals for resale; record of vaccinations; devocalization prohibited
- Section 129:40 - License plates for vehicles used for transportation of bovine or porcine animals; fee; revocation
- Section 129:40A - Hog cholera vaccine; prohibited use
- Section 129:41 - Bill of sale or memorandum signed by owner of persons transporting bovine animals; exhibition on demand; application of section
- Section 129:42 - Tagging bovine animal with identification tag
- Section 129:43 - Penalties for violation of secs. 39 to 42
- Section 129:44 - Testing of imported equine animals for infectious anemia; certification
- Section 129:44A - Destruction or quarantine of infected equine animals
- Section 129:45 - License to deal in or auction equine animals; regulation; purpose
- Section 129:46 - License plates for vehicles transporting equine animals
- Section 129:47 - Bill of sale or memorandum
- Section 129:48 - Violations, penalties