Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › REGULATORY › Chapter 16-604 - Public livestock markets - Health, facilities, and sanitation › Section 16-604-020 - Facilities and sanitation

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
Licensees shall provide facilities and sanitation for the
				  prevention of livestock diseases at their public livestock markets, as
				  follows:
(1) The licensee shall be
				responsible for the moving and yarding of livestock necessary for animal
				disease traceability, brand, or animal health inspection. Personnel employed by
				the public livestock market will be required to sort and designate any
				unhealthy animals, as determined by the market veterinarian, before they are
				admitted into trade channels.
(2)
				The floors of all pens and alleys that are part of a public livestock market
				shall be constructed of concrete or similar impervious material and kept in
				good repair, with a slope of not less than one-fourth inch per foot to adequate
				drains leading to an approved system. The director may designate certain pens
				within such public livestock markets as feeding and holding pens and the floors
				and alleys of such pens shall not be subject to the aforementioned surfacing
				requirements.
(3) Feeding and
				holding pens maintained in an area adjacent to a public livestock market shall
				be constructed and separated from such public livestock market, in a manner
				prescribed by the director, in order to prevent the spread of communicable
				diseases to the livestock sold or held for sale in such public livestock
				market.
(4) All yards, chutes and
				pens used in handling livestock shall be constructed of such material which
				will render them easily cleaned and disinfected, and such yards, pens and
				chutes shall be kept clean, sanitary and in good repair at all times, as
				required by the director.
(5)
				Sufficient calf pens of adequate size to prevent overcrowding shall be
				provided, and such pens when used shall be cleaned and disinfected no later
				than the day subsequent to each sale.
(6) All swine pen facilities shall be covered
				and when used shall be cleaned and disinfected no later than the day subsequent
				to each sale.
(7) A water system
				carrying a pressure of forty pounds psi and supplying sufficient water to
				thoroughly wash all pens, floors, alleys and equipment shall be
				provided.
(8) Sufficient quarantine
				pens of adequate capacity shall be provided. Such pens shall be used to hold
				only cattle reacting to brucellosis and tuberculosis or to quarantine livestock
				with other contagious or communicable diseases and shall be:
(a) Hard surfaced with concrete or similar
				impervious material and shall be kept in good repair.
(b) Provided with separate watering
				facilities.
(c) Painted white with
				the word "quarantine" painted in red letters not less than four inches high on
				such quarantine pen's gate.
(d)
				Provided with a tight board fence not less than five and one-half feet
				high.
(e) Cleaned and disinfected
				not later than one day subsequent to the date of sale.
To prevent the spread of communicable diseases among
				  livestock, the director shall have the authority to cause the cleaning and
				  disinfecting of any area or all areas of a public livestock market and
				  equipment or vehicles with a complete coverage of disinfectants approved by the
				  director.