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3 PA Cons Stat § 2312 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2312 - Adoption of form of identification

 § 2312. Adoption of form of identification. (a) General authority.--A domestic animal owner may adopt a brand, tattoo or other form of identification with which to identify domestic animals owned by such person through the procedure set forth in this subchapter. A form of identification recorded in compliance with this subchapter shall be considered the personal property of the person who records it. Such person shall have the exclusive right to use this form of identification within this Commonwealth.  (b) Application, facsimile and fee.--A person desiring to adopt a form of identification shall submit an application form, a facsimile of the form of identification and a recording fee of $25 to the department. The department shall provide the application form upon request. This fee may be changed by the department through regulations.  (c) Provisional filing.--It shall be the duty of the department to file all forms of identification offered for recording, keeping account of the date and chronological order of receipt, pending the review and examination provided for in subsection (d). If the form of identification is subsequently accepted for recording, ownership of the form of identification shall vest from the date of filing.  (d) Review.--The department shall have the power to examine, approve, accept or reject an application to record a brand, tattoo or other form of identification. Following receipt of the required application, facsimile and fee, the department shall, as promptly as possible, determine whether the form of identification is of record as that of some other person and whether the form of identification conflicts with or closely resembles that of another person. If neither of these conditions exist, the department shall record the form of identification. If either or both of these conditions exist, the department shall not record the form of identification, but shall instead return the recording fee and facsimile to the applicant.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2313 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2313 - Certified copies

 § 2313. Certified copies. (a) Issuance.--If a form of identification is recorded, the department shall furnish its owner with two certified copies of the record of the form of identification. Upon receipt of written evidence of the sale, assignment or transfer of a form of identification, the department shall furnish the new owner with two certified copies of the record of the form of identification. Additional copies may be obtained by the payment of $15 for each copy. This fee may be changed by the department through regulations.  (b) Filing.--Within ten days of receiving the two certified copies of the record of the form of identification, the owner of the recorded form of identification shall file one of the certified copies in the office of the county recorder of the county where the owner's principal place of business is located and one copy in each county where domestic animals bearing the recorded form of identification are to be kept. If the form of identification had a prior owner and the prior owner filed a certified copy in any other county, the subsequent owner shall file a certified copy in each county in which the previous owner had filed.    Cross References. Section 2313 is referred to in section 2314 of this title.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2314 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2314 - Brand, tattoo or other form of identification as proof of ownership

§ 2314. Brand, tattoo or other form of identification as proof of ownership. In all suits at law or in equity or in any criminal proceedings in which the title to domestic animals is an issue, the certified copies recorded pursuant to section 2313 (relating to certified copies) shall be prima facie evidence of the ownership of the domestic animal by the person in whose name the brand, tattoo or other form of identification is recorded.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2315 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2315 - Disputes in custody or ownership

§ 2315. Disputes in custody or ownership. Disputes in custody or ownership of domestic animals that bear brands, tattoos or other forms of identification shall be investigated on request by the sheriff of the county where the domestic animals are located. The sheriff may call upon the services of a licensed veterinarian in reading the brands, tattoos or other forms of identification on domestic animals. The cost of the veterinarian's services shall be borne by the person requesting the investigation. The results of the sheriff's investigation shall be a public record and shall be admissible in evidence.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2316 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2316 - Sale or assignment of form of identification

§ 2316. Sale or assignment of form of identification. Any form of identification recorded pursuant to this subchapter shall be the property of the person causing such record to be made and shall be subject to sale, assignment, transfer, devise and descent as personal property. Instruments of writing evidencing the sale, assignment or transfer of such form of identification shall be recorded by the department. The fee for recording such sale, assignment or transfer shall be $5. This fee may be changed by the department through regulations.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2317 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2317 - Violations and penalty

 § 2317. Violations and penalty. (a) Unauthorized brands.--It shall be unlawful for a person to use any brand for the branding of domestic animals unless the brand has been recorded pursuant to this subchapter or unless the use of a brand or the branding procedure is authorized under any other provision of this chapter.  (b) Affixing forms of identification by nonowners.--It shall be unlawful for a person to affix, attempt to affix or cause to be affixed a form of identification upon the domestic animal of another without the owner's consent.  (c) Tampering.--It shall be unlawful for a person to efface, deface or obliterate or attempt to efface, deface or obliterate any brand, tattoo or other form of identification upon any domestic animal belonging to another person. It shall be unlawful for a person to efface, deface, obliterate, conceal, remove or attempt to remove any official domestic animal identification of the department, the United States Department of Agriculture or any other state department of agriculture.  (d) Form of identification of another.--It shall be unlawful for a person to affix, attempt to affix or cause to be affixed upon any domestic animal the form of identification of another.  (e) Other false identification.--It shall be unlawful for any person to place, attach or use on a domestic animal, or to cause to be placed, attached or used on a domestic animal, or to attempt to place, attach or use on a domestic animal, any form of identification such as a brand, tattoo, tag, emblem, marking, microchip or other identifying mark, number or device that such person knows misrepresents the identity or health of the domestic animal, with intent to interfere or deceive in the identification, testing, vaccinating, selling, transfer or slaughter of the domestic animal.  (f) Penalty.--Any person who is convicted of violating any provision of this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree and may be imprisoned for not more than two years and be fined not more than $5,000.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2318 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2318 - Fees and forfeiture

§ 2318. Fees and forfeiture. An owner of a form of identification of record shall pay the department a fee of $5 on January 1 of every fifth year from the year in which the form of identification was recorded with the department as that owner's property. This fee may be changed by the department through regulations. The department shall give a receipt for all such payments made. If an owner of a form of identification of record should fail, refuse or neglect to pay such fee by July 1 of any year in which it is due, such form of identification shall become forfeited and no longer carried in the record. Any such forfeited form of identification shall not be issued to any other person within a period of less than ten years following date of forfeiture.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2322 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2322 - Neoplastic diseases, metabolic diseases and heritable diseases

§ 2322. Neoplastic diseases, metabolic diseases and heritable diseases. If a neoplastic disease, metabolic disease or heritable disease is determined by the department to pose a threat to domestic animal health or to the economic well-being of the domestic animal industries, then the department may establish regulations addressing any discovery, prevention, reporting, testing, control, eradication or other measures as are necessary to lessen or eliminate the threat.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2323 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2323 - Health requirements

 § 2323. Health requirements. (a) Interstate and intrastate movement of domestic animals.--The department may establish identification and minimum health standards for the importation or the intrastate movement of domestic animals in this Commonwealth and may establish procedures for certification of the health status of domestic animals imported into or transported within this Commonwealth. If the department shall suspect the genuineness of any health certificate or official disease test report relating to domestic animals or shall question the competency of the person who shall have issued such report or certificate, the department may decline to accept the same and may refuse to permit the importation or intrastate movement of the domestic animals concerned unless a certificate or report is furnished from the proper inspector of the state or country of origin or USDA-APHIS-VS or unless the department shall otherwise determine.  (b) Violations.-- (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly, recklessly or negligently import or bring into this Commonwealth without the written permission of the department any domestic animal that is contaminated with a hazardous substance or that is infected with or that has been exposed to any transmissible disease.  (2) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly, recklessly or negligently import or bring into this Commonwealth any domestic animal in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, an order entered under authority of this chapter or any attendant regulation to prevent the introduction of any transmissible disease.  (3) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly, recklessly or negligently receive or keep or have in his keeping or possession any domestic animal imported, brought into or transported within this Commonwealth in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or to allow any such domestic animal to come into contact with any other domestic animal.  (c) Authority to remove or slaughter.--Whenever any domestic animal is imported into this Commonwealth or transported within this Commonwealth in violation of this chapter, the department shall have authority to cause such domestic animal to be removed from this Commonwealth or the domestic animal removed directly to slaughter or destroyed without indemnity.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2324 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2324 - Safety of domestic animal feed

 § 2324. Safety of domestic animal feed. (a) General authority.--The department shall have the authority and the duty to protect the food supply of domestic animals in order to prevent the transmission of diseases and substances hazardous to human health or domestic animal health.  (b) Carcasses used for animal feed.--No domestic animal carcass or parts of a domestic animal carcass shall be sold for domestic animal feeding purposes if the meat or meat parts may be hazardous to the health of domestic animals to which such meat or meat parts may be fed.  (c) Garbage used for domestic animal feed.--No garbage may be fed to domestic animals except in accordance with Subchapter G (relating to garbage feeding business).  (d) Regulations.--The department shall establish regulations and standards to assure the safety of materials that are fed to domestic animals.  (e) Licensure.--The department shall provide for the licensure of persons owning or operating facilities, equipment or conveyances utilized in the collection, treatment, preparation and transportation of domestic animal by-products that are used in feed for domestic animals.  (f) Content.--The department may establish standards for the composition of feed for domestic animals, including, but not limited to, antibiotics and chemical additives for the purpose of preventing tissue residues and contamination of domestic animal products by substances hazardous to human health or domestic animal health. Such standards shall be established by regulation.  (g) Prohibition.--Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, a domestic animal or part of a domestic animal which is suspected of carrying a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy shall not be moved without written permission of the department or used in the manufacture or production of domestic animal feed.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2325 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2325 - Use of biologicals, antibiotics, genetic material, chemicals, diagnostic agents and other substances

 § 2325. Use of biologicals, antibiotics, genetic material, chemicals, diagnostic agents and other substances. (a) Authority.--The department shall have the authority to regulate the manufacture, sale or administration of any biological product intended for diagnostic, preventive or therapeutic purposes with domestic animals. The department may establish regulations to control the production, sale, distribution or use of biologicals, antibiotics, genetic material, chemicals and other substances administered to domestic animals.  (b) Testing.--The department may prescribe methods of making official tests and may restrict the use of such tests to authorized accredited veterinarians and agents of the department and USDA-APHIS-VS for diagnosis of diseases of domestic animals. It shall be the duty of each person using restricted tests to report in writing the results of restricted tests to the department. Each report shall be signed by the person who conducted the test and shall give the date of the test, the name and address of the owner of the domestic animal tested, the location where such test was conducted, a description and definitive permanent identification of the domestic animal or domestic animals tested and a complete statement of the actual result of such test. It shall be unlawful for any person whose duty it is to make a report to fail or refuse to do so.  (c) Vaccines.--The department may, in order to prevent or control the introduction or spread of dangerous transmissible diseases, restrict the use of vaccines in domestic animals or cause domestic animals in this Commonwealth to be vaccinated with biologicals according to regulations promulgated under this chapter.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2326 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2326 - Sanitation

§ 2326. Sanitation. The department shall have the authority to establish standards of sanitation for the operation and maintenance of any facility, conveyance, equipment, building or other means of housing, containing or transporting domestic animals. Sanitation standards shall be established to minimize the possible transmission of dangerous transmissible diseases.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2327 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2327 - Disease surveillance and detection

 § 2327. Disease surveillance and detection. (a) General authority.--The department shall have the authority to regularly monitor the domestic animal population of this Commonwealth to determine the prevalence, incidence and location of transmissible diseases or contamination by hazardous substances.  (b) Duty to report.--It shall be the duty of every practitioner of veterinary medicine and every diagnostic laboratory in this Commonwealth, immediately upon receiving information thereof, to report to the department each case of any dangerous transmissible disease and each case of potential contamination by substances declared hazardous by the department.  (c) Violations.-- (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to impede, hinder or interfere with the testing of a domestic animal or to refuse to confine a domestic animal so as to allow testing without undue burden on the official conducting the test or to fail to present the person's domestic animals for testing by the department under authority of this chapter after reasonable notice of the proposed testing has been given.  (2) It shall be unlawful for any person who has knowledge that a domestic animal is infected with a dangerous transmissible disease or has been exposed to a dangerous transmissible disease or has been contaminated by a hazardous substance to conceal or attempt to conceal such domestic animal or knowledge of such a domestic animal from the department.  (d) Wild animals.--The department shall have the authority to solicit assistance from and provide assistance to Federal and other State agencies, local governments and private entities in monitoring wild animals in this Commonwealth to determine the presence of dangerous transmissible disease. This monitoring may be done in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service or any other private or governmental entity.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2328 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2328 - Entry on premises

§ 2328. Entry on premises. In the performance of the duties required by this chapter, the department may at any time enter any premises or stop and detain any vehicle or conveyance. If entry shall be refused or delayed by any person, the department's employee or agent may, upon oath or affirmation, declare before a court of competent jurisdiction that the employee or agent has reason to believe that domestic animals or articles that are or have been confined or kept in or on such premises carry a dangerous transmissible disease, have been exposed to a dangerous transmissible disease or have been contaminated by a hazardous substance and shall further declare that permission to enter and to investigate has been refused or delayed to the department. Upon review of such declaration, the court of jurisdiction may issue a search warrant for such premises, directed to the proper officer, agent or employee. The search warrant shall describe the premises which may be searched under authority of the search warrant, but need not describe the domestic animal, domestic animal products or other articles which are alleged to carry a dangerous transmissible disease, to have been exposed to a dangerous transmissible disease or to have been contaminated by a hazardous substance, which are or have been confined or kept on such premises. An officer, agent or employee of the department armed with such a search warrant shall have all the authority of a constable or other peace officer in the execution of the warrant. It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse or delay admission to any premises to any officer, agent or employee of the department provided with a search warrant issued pursuant to this section. The department shall take appropriate biosecurity and safety measures to ensure that it does not allow dangerous transmissible disease or contamination from hazardous substances to spread as the result of its entry upon any premises or conveyance.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2330 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2330 - Condemnation

§ 2330. Condemnation. The department shall have the authority to condemn and seize or cause to be destroyed any quarantined domestic animal, domestic animal product, conveyance or other quarantined article that has been determined by the department as having been exposed to a dangerous transmissible disease or a hazardous substance such that destruction of the domestic animal, domestic animal product, conveyance or other article is necessary to prevent the spread of such disease or contamination.
3 PA Cons Stat § 2332 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 3 - AGRICULTURE|Chapter 23 - Domestic Animals|Section 2332 - Depopulation incentive

 § 2332. Depopulation incentive. (a) Generally.--If a domestic animal, domestic animal product or other property has not been condemned under authority of this chapter, the department shall have the discretion to pay to the owner of any domestic animal or other property a sum which shall not exceed 33% of the appraised value of that domestic animal or other property and may compensate a person for cleanup costs and disposal costs or a portion thereof in consideration of that owner or other authorized person voluntarily slaughtering or destroying that domestic animal or other property and implementing cleanup and disposal measures in accordance with this chapter and with the prior agreement of the department. This discretion may be exercised only upon the department's determination that the destruction and disposal of the domestic animal or other property serves to protect public health, the safety or quality of the food supply or the economic well-being of domestic animal industries. Payment of a depopulation incentive under this section is limited by the availability of funds for this purpose.  (b) Limits.--A depopulation incentive payment shall not exceed $2,000 with respect to any individual domestic animal. A depopulation incentive payment plus the salvage value and any other compensation received from other sources shall not exceed 90% of the appraised value of the domestic animal or other property that is the subject of the depopulation incentive payment. Notwithstanding the definition of "owner" in section 2303 (relating to definitions), depopulation incentive payments made under this section shall be made only to those persons who have an actual ownership interest in the domestic animal or other property that is the subject of the depopulation incentive payment.  (c) Cats and dogs.--The department may not make depopulation incentive payments for cats and dogs.   (Dec. 9, 2002, P.L.1495, No.190, eff. imd.)   2002 Amendment. Act 190 amended subsec. (a). Section 7 of Act 190 provided that the amendment shall apply to cleanup costs and disposal costs incurred on or after October 1, 2001.  Cross References. Section 2332 is referred to in section 2333 of this title.