NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 693

HOUSE BILL 810

AN ACT AMENDING PART 9, ARTICLE 34 OF CHAPTER 106 SO AS TO INCLUDE POULTRY IN CERTAIN STATUTES PERTAINING TO THE CONTROL OF ANIMAL DISEASES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  A new section is hereby added immediately after G.S. 106-401 to read as follows:

"G.S. 106-401.1.  The State Veterinarian, or his authorized representative, is hereby authorized to go upon or enter any property in the State, or to stop any motor vehicle, to examine any poultry which he has reason to believe are affected with or exposed to a contagious disease. He or his authorized representative is authorized to quarantine any poultry affected with or exposed to a contagious disease, or injected with or otherwise exposed to any material capable of producing a contagious disease and to give public notice of such quarantine by posting or placarding with a suitable quarantine sign the entrance to or any part of the premises on which such poultry are held. Said poultry are to be maintained by the owner or person in charge as provided for in G.S. 106-400 to G.S. 106-405 at the owner's expense. The quarantine provision hereof shall not apply to those diseases which are endemic in the State and for which adequate preventive and control measures are not available. No poultry under quarantine shall be moved from the place of quarantine except upon a written permit from the State Veterinarian or his authorized representative. Said quarantine shall remain in effect until cancelled by official written notice from the State Veterinarian or his authorized representative and shall not be released or cancelled until the sick or dead poultry have been properly disposed of and the premises have been properly cleaned and disinfected."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 106-402 is rewritten in its entirety to read as follows:

"G.S. 106-402.  Any animal, animals or poultry affected with or exposed to a contagious or infectious disease shall be confined by the owner or person in charge of said animal, animals or poultry in such a manner, by penning or otherwise securing and' actually isolating same from the approach or contact with other animals or poultry not so affected; they shall not have access to any ditch, canal, branch, creek, river, or other watercourse which passes beyond the premises of the owner or person in charge of said animals or poultry, or to any public road, or to the premises of any other person."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 106-405 is rewritten in its entirety to read as follows:

"G.S. 106-405.  Any person or persons who shall knowingly and willfully violate any provision of G.S. 106-400 to 106-403 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a tine not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment not in excess of six months, or both fine and imprisonment."

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of June, 1969.