New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS › Chapter II - Animal Industry › Subchapter A - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Garbage Feeding › Part 62 - Health Requirements Governing Importation Of Sheep, Goats, Llamas And Deer › Section 62.4 - Importation of sheep and goats to a specifically approved stockyard or recognized slaughtering establishment

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Sheep and goats may be moved to a specifically approved
					 stockyard or recognized slaughtering establishment without a certificate of
					 veterinary inspection under the following conditions:
(a) The sheep or goats shall be accompanied
				  by a waybill.
(b) The sheep or
				  goats shall be moved directly to the specifically approved stockyard or
				  recognized slaughtering establishment named as the destination or consignee on
				  the waybill.
(c) At any time after
				  entry of the sheep or goats into the State, an authorized representative of the
				  commissioner may direct the person transporting the sheep or goats to a
				  designated location for the following purposes: unloading, restraint,
				  inspection, identification, tagging, testing, or quarantine.
(d) The sheep or goats transported to a
				  recognized slaughtering establishment shall be slaughtered within six days (144
				  hours) after the time of entry into this State.
(e) The sheep or goats transported to a
				  specifically approved stockyard may be moved without restriction provided that:
(1) the stockyard complies with the
				  requirements of this section including but not limited to maintenance of a
				  segregation facility; and adequate handling and restraining equipment to enable
				  the reading of eartags and performance of physical examinations of the sheep
				  and goats; and
(2) the sheep or
				  goats originated in a state which is:
(i)
				  bordering on New York State;
(ii)
				  recognized by the U.S.D.A. as a scrapie consistent state; and
(iii) has not been recognized by the
				  commissioner as having any other disease of sheep or goats which does not
				  naturally occur in New York; and
(3) the Federally assigned premises
				  identification numbers of all premises of origin of the sheep or goats are
				  included on the entry waybill. For purposes of this section, premises of origin
				  shall be the farm or ranch where the animals originated and not a livestock
				  market or dealer;
(4) each sheep or
				  goat entering the State has an individual, uniquely numbered eartag, approved
				  for identification by the U.S.D.A. or country of origin, which eartag number is
				  included on the entry waybill;
(5)
				  the sheep or goats which enter under this section are segregated by at least 30
				  feet from New York origin sheep or goats prior to the required veterinary
				  inspection; and
(6) prior to
				  release from the segregation pens, an accredited veterinarian shall physically
				  examine all animals in the pen and shall prepare an approved certificate of
				  veterinary inspection for those animals not going to immediate slaughter. If
				  any animal shows any signs of infectious, contagious or communicable disease,
				  that animal, and all animals exposed to that animal shall go for immediate
				  slaughter, or, at the discretion of the commissioner may be returned to the
				  premises of origin or quarantined and isolated from all other animals at the
				  owner's expense until the commissioner determines that the animals are not a
				  threat to New York livestock.