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[TITLE 4. Table of Contents]
4-29-1 Department authorized to make and enforce rules.
The department is authorized, subject to Title 63, Chapter
46a, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, to make and enforce
such rules as it considers necessary for the administration
and enforcement of this chapter.
1995
4-29-2 Restrictions on importation of chickens, turkeys, chicks, turkey poults, and hatching eggs - Certificate to accompany shipment - Disposition of nonconforming shipments.
(1) No chickens, turkeys, chicks, turkey poults, or hatching eggs to be used for breeding purposes shall be imported to this state, or sold by hatcheries or others within this state unless they originate from flocks participating in the pullorum control and eradication phase of the National Poultry Improvement Plan, or the National Turkey Improvement Plan, or have passed a negative agglutination blood test for pullorum disease administered under the supervision of the department within 12 months prior to the date of sale.
(2) Baby chicks, turkey poults, or hatching eggs to be used for purposes other than breeding shall not be imported to this state, or sold by hatcheries or others within this state unless they originate from flocks participating in the pullorum control and eradication phase of the National Poultry Improvement Plan, or the National Turkey Improvement Plan, or have passed a negative agglutination blood test for pullorum disease administered under supervision of the department within 12 months prior to the date of sale.
(3) A certificate issued by the appropriate authority of the "state of origin" shall accompany each shipment of hatching eggs, baby chicks, poults, started chicks, started poults, or chicken or turkey breed stock imported to this state. The certificate shall specify that the contents of the shipment is free of pullorum or other poultry disease, the name and address of the consignee in this state, the name and address of the person who consigned the poultry for shipment, the name of the certifying authority in the state of origin, and the date the test or inspection for pullorum was performed by such authority.
(4) The department may seize and destroy any shipment
of chickens, chicks, turkeys, poults, or hatching eggs transported
into this state in contravention of this section without
notice to the person who consigned the poultry for shipment
to this state, or it may return the contents of the shipment
to such person at the latter's expense.
1979
4-29-3 Results of negative agglutination blood test filed with department.
The results of each negative agglutination blood test
for pullorum disease performed at a hatchery in Utah shall
be certified and a copy of the test results filed with the
department.
1979
4-29-4 Hatchery - License required to operate.
No person shall operate a hatchery or offer any chicks,
poults, or hatching eggs for sale in this state without a
license issued by the department.
1979
4-29-5 License - Application - Fee - Expiration - Renewal.
Application to operate a hatchery or to engage in the
business of selling chicks, poults, or hatching eggs shall
be made to the department upon forms prescribed and furnished
by it. Upon receipt of a proper application and payment of
a license fee in an amount determined by the department pursuant
to Subsection
4-2-2
(2), the commissioner, if satisfied that the
convenience and necessity of the industry and the public
will be served, shall issue a license entitling the applicant
to engage in the otherwise proscribed activity through December
31 of the year in which the license is issued. A hatchery
license is annually renewable on or before December 31 of
each year upon the payment of an annual license renewal fee
in an amount determined by the department pursuant to Subsection
4-2-2
(2).
1985
4-29-6 Enforcement - Inspection of premises where poultry raised.
(1) The department shall have access to all hatcheries or other places in the state where poultry is raised for the purpose of inspecting the premises for conditions related to the control of pullorum or other poultry disease.
(2) If admittance is refused, the department may proceed
immediately to obtain an ex parte warrant from the nearest
court of competent jurisdiction to allow entry upon the premises
for the purpose of making the inspection.
1979
