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MA Gen L ch 129 § 31 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 31 - Damages; Arbitration; Petition for Assessment of Damages

Section 31. If an owner is entitled to compensation for the killing of an animal or the destruction of other property under this chapter, and cannot agree with the director as to its value, the director and the owner may each select an arbitrator, and if the owner neglects or refuses to select an arbitrator within twenty-four hours after notice that the director has selected one, the arbitrator selected by the director may select another. In each case if the two arbitrators cannot agree as to the value, they may select a third. The arbitrators shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties and shall determine the value within the limits provided by sections eleven to fourteen, inclusive, and the amount so fixed shall be paid to the owner.  If the owner's right to compensation is in dispute, if either party prefers to submit the amount of damages to judicial determination, or if the award of the arbitrators is unsatisfactory to either party, the owner or the director may, within thirty days after the killing of such animal or the destruction of such property, or, if arbitrators have been appointed, within thirty days after the date of their award, file a petition for the assessment of damages in the superior court for Suffolk county or for the county where the killing or destruction occurred. A copy of the petition shall be served upon the adverse party. If upon such petition it appears that the owner is entitled by law to compensation, the damages shall be assessed under chapter seventy-nine within the limits provided by sections eleven to fourteen, inclusive, of this chapter. The damages, costs and expenses incurred by the director in prosecuting or defending the petition shall be paid by the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 31a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 31a - Shipping or Delivering Tuberculin Within Commonwealth; Statement as to Use; Application to Common Carriers

Section 31A. Every person who, himself or by his servant or agent, ships from a place within the commonwealth or otherwise delivers any tuberculin to a person within the commonwealth shall forthwith file with the director a written statement containing the name and address of the person to whom the same was shipped or delivered as aforesaid and the quantity thereof. Every person receiving tuberculin for use in connection with domestic animals shall forthwith after such use file with the director a written statement containing the name and address of the person whose cattle have been tested with such tuberculin and of the person from whom the same was received, together with records of said test upon blanks furnished by the director. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished for the first offence by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars and for a subsequent offence by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. This section shall not apply to common carriers, their servants or agents.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 32 - Use of Tuberculin as Diagnostic Agent; Tests

Section 32. Tuberculin as a diagnostic agent for the detection of tuberculosis in domestic animals shall be used only upon cattle brought into the commonwealth and upon cattle in quarantine stations; but it may be used as such diagnostic agent on any animal in any other part of the commonwealth, with the written consent of the owner or person in possession thereof, and upon animals which have been reported as tuberculous upon physical examination by a competent veterinary surgeon, and also as provided in section thirty-three B. Such tests by the use of tuberculin shall be made without charge to citizens of the commonwealth, and in all other cases the expense of such tests shall be paid by the owner of such animals or by the person in possession thereof.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 33a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 33a - Identification of Reacting Bovine Animals; Removal of Tag; Disposition of Tagged Animals

Section 33A. Any bovine animal which reacts to a tuberculin test shall immediately be tagged for identification by the veterinarian, who has applied such test, by inserting into the external ear of the reacting animal a special metal tag provided by the director. Any person who removes any such tag attached as above provided, or who in any way disposes of any animal which has reacted to a tuberculin test except for the purpose of immediate slaughter, or who neglects or refuses to have slaughtered a reacting animal sold to him for that purpose, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 33b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 33b - Declaration of Quarantine Areas; Tuberculin Tests of Bovine Animals; Modified Accredited Areas; Violation of Terms of Quarantine

Section 33B. The director may, upon application to him by not less than seventy-five per cent of the cattle owners owning cattle permanently kept in any city or town, or upon like application by the owners of eighty-five per cent of such cattle, declare said city or town a quarantine area and may proceed to test by the tuberculin test or otherwise all bovine animals within said area. Whenever not less than eighty-five per cent of the cattle permanently kept in the commonwealth are being tested for bovine tuberculosis under the supervision of the director or of the appropriate federal officials, the director may declare the entire commonwealth to be a quarantine area and may proceed to test by the tuberculin test or otherwise all bovine animals within the commonwealth. If the director finds and declares that such a city or town or the commonwealth, as the case may be, is substantially free from bovine tuberculosis, he may proclaim it to constitute a modified accredited area and may prescribe rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the governor and council, prohibiting the shipment or transportation into the same of any bovine animals without a permit and health certificate issued by the director or some officer designated by the director for the purpose. Whoever violates the terms and conditions of any such quarantine or any such rule or regulation shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 33c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 33c - Declaration of Quarantine Area; Tests for Brucellosis of Bovine Animals; Modified Certified Brucellosis Free Area; Violation of Terms of Quarantine

Section 33C. The director may upon application to him by not less than seventy-five per cent of the cattle owners owning cattle permanently kept in any city, town or county, or upon like application by the owners of eighty-five per cent of such cattle, declare said city, town or county a quarantined area, and may proceed to test for brucellosis by an approved method for the detection of brucellosis all bovine animals within said area. If the director finds and declares said city, town or county is substantially free from bovine brucellosis, he may proclaim it to constitute a modified certified brucellosis free area and may prescribe rules and regulations, subject to their approval by the governor and council, prohibiting the shipment or transportation into said area of any bovine animal without a permit and health chart issued by the director or some person designated by the director for this purpose. Whoever violates the terms and conditions of any such quarantine or any such rule or regulation shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 33d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 33d - Tests for Detection of Brucellosis; Identification of Animals; Destruction

Section 33D. Prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, the director may, upon written application of the owner, test cattle and thereafter shall test all cattle by an approved method for the detection of brucellosis. Said director shall provide for the drawing and collecting of the blood samples and for the laboratory testing. He shall cause any such animal reacting positively to any test for brucellosis to be identified by the branding of the letter B, which shall be at least two inches by two inches, on the left jaw, and the insertion of a reactor tag in the left ear, and to be quarantined. Prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred and sixty, such reactors may be kept on the farm where tested under quarantine and moved only by permit. All such reactors when removed from the farm shall be disposed of for immediate slaughter under official supervision. If the reaction of any animal to a test for brucellosis is doubtful it shall be identified and quarantined, and shall not be disposed of without written permission of the director. The commonwealth shall not be liable for any damage incurred by any such test.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 34 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 34 - Compensation to Violators of Regulations

Section 34. No compensation shall be allowed by the commonwealth to an owner of condemned cattle who has failed to comply with the reasonable regulations of the director relative to cleanliness, ventilation, light, disinfection and water supply. An owner of cattle who refuses to comply with any such regulation shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 35 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 35 - Driving Certain Cattle on Public Ways or Roads

Section 35. Texan, Mexican, Cherokee, Indian or other cattle, which the director has reason to believe may spread contagious disease, shall not be driven on any public way or road, or outside the stockyards connected with any railroad in the commonwealth, contrary to an order of the director, and they shall be kept in different pens from those in which other cattle are kept in all stockyards in the commonwealth. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 36 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 36 - Notice of Contagious Diseases

Section 36. Whoever kills an animal or causes it to be killed, with the consent of the owner or person in possession thereof, upon suspicion that it is affected with or has been exposed to a contagious disease, and who, upon the inspection of the carcass thereof, finds or is of opinion that it is affected with a contagious disease, shall forthwith notify such owner or person in possession thereof, and the director or an inspector for the town where such animal was kept, of the existence of such disease, and of the place where the animal was found, the name of the owner or person in possession thereof and of the disposal made of such carcass. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two months, or both.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 36b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 36b - Vaccination of Female Calves; Identification of Positive Reactors; Transportation of Unvaccinated Bovine Animals

Section 36B. The director shall cause all female calves to be vaccinated against brucellosis, commonly known as bangs disease, when they are from the ages of four to eight months, inclusive. Calves shall be vaccinated by an approved licensed veterinarian designated by the director and only with vaccine produced at establishments licensed under the federal Virus–Serum–Toxin Act, or at establishments in the commonwealth approved by the director, and the expense thereof shall be borne by the commonwealth. The director shall make the necessary rules for the handling of the vaccine and the method of vaccination. Any person refusing to have his calves vaccinated shall not be permitted to move any of his cattle from his premises except for immediate slaughter, unless such cattle react negatively to an approved blood test for brucellosis. Each veterinarian shall make a report of all animals vaccinated by him on forms furnished by the director. The commonwealth shall not be liable for any damages incurred or alleged to have been incurred by the use of vaccine. Whenever any cattle are tested for brucellosis and determined to react positively to such tests, or are vaccinated against brucellosis, the owner of the cattle shall cause them to be permanently identified in accordance with regulations prescribed by the director. It shall be unlawful for a person to transport or offer for transport any unvaccinated bovine animal over six months of age, and any vaccinated bovine animal over eighteen months of age that has been tested for brucellosis and has reacted positive to such tests, except cattle moved under permit issued by the director to slaughtering establishments under state or federal inspection. Any person, firm or corporation who buys, sells or transports any cattle known to be positive to an approved test for brucellosis, except animals under eighteen months of age and accompanied by a certificate of vaccination or except unvaccinated animals less than six months of age or except animals for immediate slaughter, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars for each animal bought, sold or transported.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 36d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 36d - Importation of Vaccinated Animals; Conditions

Section 36D. Vaccinated animals which are over eighteen months of age may be imported into the commonwealth if within thirty days prior to entry they have reacted negatively to an approved blood test conducted in a laboratory approved by the state of origin. Vaccinated animals eighteen months of age and under may be imported into the commonwealth without such blood test if accompanied by a certificate stating the animals have been vaccinated between the ages of four to eight months, inclusive, by a veterinarian duly licensed by the state of origin of said animals.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 36e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 36e - Importation of Unvaccinated Female Cattle Over Five Months of Age

Section 36E. Subject to rules promulgated by the commissioner of food and agriculture, the director may prohibit the importation of female cattle, for breeding purposes, over five months of age without an official certificate of vaccination stating such female cattle have been vaccinated for brucellosis from the ages of four to eight months, inclusive.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 36f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 36f - Brucellosis, Imported Cattle, Blood Testing

Section 36F. The director, his authorized agent or a duly licensed veterinarian designated by the director may conduct such blood tests for brucellosis of all cattle imported into the commonwealth which are over five months of age, as will aid in the effective control of brucellosis.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 36g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 36g - Reimbursement of Owners for Slaughter of Animals Reacting Positively to Blood Test for Brucellosis; Appraisal

Section 36G. If any animal tested by an approved licensed veterinarian designated by the director under this section reacts positively to an approved blood test for brucellosis and is slaughtered in consequence thereof, or if any animal does not react positively but has been exposed to brucellosis in an infected herd, said animal may be slaughtered because of such exposure to the positive reactors in accordance with the recommended uniform methods and rules published by the veterinary services of the animal and plant health inspection service of the United States Department of Agriculture. The director may appoint persons to make appraisals of reacting cattle in conjunction with the owner or his authorized representative. Such appraisal shall be subject to the rights of arbitration and petition set forth in section thirty-one; provided, that the award or damage shall be within the limits prescribed by this section. The commonwealth, shall within thirty days after the filing in the office of the director of a valid claim for reimbursement in pursuance of such an appraisal or award under said section thirty-one, pay to the owner of any animal slaughtered under authority of any rules and regulations made hereunder, or to any mortgagee or assignee designated in writing by said owner, two thirds of any difference between the amount received by the owner for the carcass of the animal and the value of the animal as determined by appraisal as aforesaid; provided, that payment by the commonwealth hereunder shall not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars for any grade animal or two hundred dollars for any purebred animal; and provided, further, that no payment shall be made for any such animal unless it was kept by the owner applying for the test on the premises where tested for at least sixty days next prior to the date of said test, or unless it was admitted to the herd on a test approved by the director and provided, further, that no payment shall be made for any animal if, since a previous test, the owner or his representative has violated the rules and regulations made hereunder; and provided, further, that the owner or his representative has not unlawfully or improperly obtained or attempted to obtain reimbursement for any animal; and provided, further, that the owner or his representative has not, in the opinion of the director, by wilful act or neglect, contributed to the spread of bovine brucellosis. If the federal government pays part of the value of any animal slaughtered under this section, the payment by the commonwealth shall be limited to the difference between the payment authorized by the federal government and the payment as hereinbefore provided.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 36h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 36h - Waiver of Compliance With Secs. 36b, 36d to 36f

Section 36H. The director may after a hearing grant, in suitable cases, waivers of compliance with the provisions of sections thirty-six B, thirty-six D, thirty-six E and thirty-six F.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 37 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 37 - Enforcement Actions; Jurisdiction of Commissioner of Agriculture, District and Superior Courts

Section 37. As used in this section, the word ''commissioner'' shall mean the commissioner of agriculture or his designee, and any rules, regulations, orders, licenses or permits issued under this chapter. The commissioner may assess administrative fines, not to exceed $500 per offense, for violations of this chapter. Each animal involved in a violation may constitute a separate offense, and each day that a violation continues after receipt of written notice of such violation from the department may constitute a separate offense. Total fines assessed in any given action under this section shall not exceed $10,000. The commissioner may deny any application for, suspend or revoke any license or permit issued under this chapter upon a finding of consistent or continual failure to keep or produce records required by this chapter. Denial, suspension or revocations shall be effective pending resolution of any appeal, unless otherwise ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction. Without alleging or proving the lack of other adequate remedies at law, the commissioner may apply for an injunction to restrain any violation of this chapter in order to protect human or animal health. The remedies provided in this section are available in addition to, and without limiting, any other penalties provided by law or equity, in this chapter or elsewhere. The district and superior courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction to enforce this chapter and to restrain violations thereof. Enforcement actions brought under this section and appeals thereof shall conform to the applicable provisions of chapter 30A and hearing regulations promulgated thereunder. The commissioner may promulgate regulations to implement this section. The commissioner may issue orders necessary to enforce this chapter and to restrain violations thereof. Such orders shall be effective pending resolution of any appeal, unless otherwise ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 38 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 38 - Annual Report

Section 38. The commissioner of food and agriculture shall make an annual report of the acts of the director, including therein the information obtained from inspectors under section twenty-three.
MA Gen L ch 129 § 39 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation|Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control|Section 39 - Licensing of Persons Dealing in Bovine and Porcine Animals; Fee

Section 39. Every person engaging in the business of dealing in bovine and porcine animals shall obtain a license therefor from the director, the fee for which shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven for the filing thereof, and such license shall expire on November thirtieth following the date of issuance, unless sooner revoked. The director shall, subject to the approval of the commissioner of food and agriculture and of the governor, make rules and regulations governing the issuance and revocation of such licenses and the conduct of the businesses so licensed and relative to the maintenance of premises, buildings and conveyances, the health of bovine and porcine animals and the method and time of inspection and checking of said animals.