California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
DIVISION 5 - ANIMAL AND POULTRY QUARANTINE AND PEST CONTROL

PART 1 - DISEASED ANIMALS AND POULTRY

CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

ARTICLE 1 - Reports

Section 9101. - 9101. (a) The department shall periodically publish and make available...

ARTICLE 2 - Serum

Section 9121. - 9121. Any person that is engaged in stockraising may purchase...

ARTICLE 3 - Disposal of Carcasses

Section 9143. - 9143. An animal which has died from any contagious disease...

ARTICLE 3.5 - Laboratory Services

Section 9151. - 9151. For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:...

Section 9152. - 9152. The department shall do all of the following: (a)...

Section 9152.5. - 9152.5. A laboratory approved, certified, or accredited by the state...

Section 9153. - 9153. (a) A person shall not establish, operate, or maintain...

Section 9154. - 9154. (a) Before issuing a certificate pursuant to Section 9153,...

Section 9155. - 9155. (a) The department may refuse to approve or renew...

Section 9156. - 9156. Test results certified by the department are prima facie...

Section 9157. - 9157. (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 9166, any person who violates...

ARTICLE 4 - Violations and Penalties

Section 9161. - 9161. It is unlawful for any person to bring, cause...

Section 9163. - 9163. Any person that owns or has possession or control...

Section 9164. - 9164. In order to prevent the spread of any livestock...

Section 9165. - 9165. Except for Sections 10492 and 10494, any person that...

Section 9166. - 9166. (a) In addition to any other penalty or fine...

Section 9167. - 9167. The Attorney General shall, upon complaint by the director,...

Section 9168. - 9168. The Attorney General shall, upon complaint by the director,...

Section 9169. - 9169. It is unlawful for any person to defeat or...

ARTICLE 5 - Investigations

Section 9175. - 9175. The secretary may make any necessary investigations relative to...

ARTICLE 6 - Collections

Section 9185. - 9185. Any fees that are provided for by any provision...

Section 9186. - 9186. Any fees that are due and payable pursuant to...

Section 9187. - 9187. A penalty assessment of 5 percent per month of...

Section 9188. - 9188. The secretary shall have a lien upon any livestock...

Section 9189. - 9189. All money which is collected pursuant to this division...

CHAPTER 1.5 - Commercial Blood Banks for Animals and Biologics

ARTICLE 1 - Definitions

Section 9201. - 9201. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern...

ARTICLE 2 - Animal Blood and Blood Component Products Production and Biologics Production

Section 9210. - 9210. (a) A person shall not engage in the production...

Section 9211. - 9211. No person shall engage in the production of biologics...

Section 9212. - 9212. The secretary shall license establishments as captive closed-colony commercial...

Section 9212.5. - 9212.5. (a) (1) The department shall discontinue its licensing program...

ARTICLE 3 - Licenses

Section 9221. - 9221. An application for a license for any establishment that...

Section 9222. - 9222. (a) A commercial blood bank for animals shall not...

ARTICLE 4 - License Fees

Section 9231. - 9231. The license application fee and license renewal fee under...

ARTICLE 5 - Blood or Blood Component Product Registration

Section 9241. - 9241. No person shall offer for sale or use any...

Section 9242. - 9242. The secretary shall register blood or a blood component...

Section 9244. - 9244. (a) An application for registration of blood or a...

Section 9245. - 9245. The secretary may impose such conditions on the production...

ARTICLE 6 - Rules and Regulations

Section 9251. - 9251. The secretary may adopt reasonably necessary rules and regulations...

Section 9252. - 9252. (a) The secretary shall track, administer, and enforce the...

Section 9253. - 9253. (a) A closed-colony blood bank licensed under this chapter...

Section 9254. - 9254. The department shall annually submit a copy of the...

Section 9255. - 9255. (a) The department, in collaboration with the Veterinary Medical...

ARTICLE 7 - Enforcement

Section 9261. - 9261. License for any commercial blood bank for animals or...

Section 9262. - 9262. The biologics prepared prior to July 1, 1975, in...

Section 9263. - 9263. If the secretary finds that blood or blood component...

Section 9264. - 9264. (a) If the secretary finds blood or blood component...

Section 9266. - 9266. The department, or humane officers under contract with the...

Section 9267. - 9267. Notwithstanding Section 4827 of the Business and Professions Code,...

Section 9268. - 9268. The requirements set forth in subdivision (c) of Section...

Section 9269. - 9269. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the California...

ARTICLE 8 - Exemptions

Section 9272. - 9272. This chapter shall not apply to any of the...

CHAPTER 2 - Scabies and Ticks

ARTICLE 1 - Treatment

Section 9301. - 9301. When moved for the purpose of immediate slaughter, cattle...

Section 9302. - 9302. If upon examination of any cattle or sheep, the...

Section 9303. - 9303. If, at the expiration of 10 days from the...

Section 9304. - 9304. If upon examination at the end of the 10...

Section 9305. - 9305. If upon examination at any time the department finds...

Section 9306. - 9306. If the director has reason to believe that the...

Section 9307. - 9307. If the owner or person that is in control...

ARTICLE 2 - Civil Liability

Section 9331. - 9331. All expenses and costs of dipping or treating cattle...

Section 9332. - 9332. If the lien is not paid within 15 days...

Section 9333. - 9333. In any civil proceeding which arises under this chapter,...

ARTICLE 3 - Violations

Section 9351. - 9351. It is unlawful for any person to willfully sell,...

Section 9352. - 9352. It is unlawful for any person to knowingly sell...

CHAPTER 3 - Animal Quarantine

ARTICLE 1 - Definitions

Section 9501. - 9501. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this...

Section 9502. - 9502. “Animal,” “livestock,” or “domestic animal,” includes poultry. (Enacted by...

Section 9503. - 9503. “Poultry” includes all domesticated fowl and any wild fowl...

ARTICLE 2 - Inspections

Section 9531. - 9531. If the director receives information of the existence of...

Section 9532. - 9532. This chapter does not deprive the regular inspectors who...

ARTICLE 3 - Establishment of Quarantine

Section 9561. - 9561. The State Veterinarian may establish such quarantine, sanitary, and...

Section 9562. - 9562. (a) Subject to the rights and procedures established pursuant...

Section 9563. - 9563. It is unlawful for any person to move or...

Section 9564. - 9564. If it is necessary to restrict the movements of...

Section 9569. - 9569. In addition to actions that may be directed by...

Section 9570. - 9570. If the State Veterinarian invokes Section 9562, and the...

Section 9573. - 9573. A quarantine shall not be established by one county...

Section 9574. - 9574. (a) Any person who negligently or intentionally violates any...

ARTICLE 4 - Compensable Destruction of Diseased Animals

Section 9591. - 9591. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9595, if any...

Section 9592. - 9592. The state may contribute toward the payment for the...

Section 9593. - 9593. (a) The value of the animal or property prior...

Section 9594. - 9594. The department may pay from any money which is...

Section 9595. - 9595. Indemnity payments provided by this division shall not be...

ARTICLE 5 - Noncompensable Destruction of Diseased Animals

Section 9621. - 9621. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9571, every horse,...

ARTICLE 6 - Importation

Section 9641.5. - 9641.5. (a) Any horse or other Equidae brought into this...

Section 9641.6. - 9641.6. (a) The director may issue a permit, valid on...

Section 9641.7. - 9641.7. Any positive test for equine infectious anemia performed in...

ARTICLE 7 - Interagency Cooperation

Section 9671. - 9671. The director shall meet periodically with the livestock sanitary...

Section 9672. - 9672. A county may appropriate and expend money from the...

Section 9673. - 9673. An agreement which is entered into pursuant to Section...

Section 9674. - 9674. An agreement which is entered into pursuant to Section...

ARTICLE 8 - Violations

Section 9691. - 9691. It is unlawful for any person to remove or...

Section 9692. - 9692. It is unlawful for any person to bring or...

Section 9693. - 9693. It is unlawful for any person to move or...

Section 9694. - 9694. It is unlawful for any person to resist the...

Section 9695. - 9695. It is unlawful for any person to hide, secrete,...

Section 9696. - 9696. It is unlawful for any person to fail or...

Section 9697. - 9697. It is unlawful for any person to fail or...

Section 9698. - 9698. It is unlawful for any person to violate any...

Section 9699. - 9699. It is unlawful for any person to violate the...

Section 9700. - 9700. It is unlawful for any person to violate any...

Section 9701. - 9701. Any violation of any provision of this chapter is...

Section 9702. - 9702. It is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle...

PART 2 - DISEASED BOVINES

CHAPTER 1 - Exceptions

Section 9801. - 9801. This part does not apply to animals which are...

CHAPTER 2 - Bovine Tuberculosis

ARTICLE 1 - Definitions

Section 9901. - 9901. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this...

Section 9902. - 9902. “Accredited herd” means a herd of cattle for which...

Section 9903. - 9903. “Approved veterinarian” means a veterinarian who has been granted...

Section 9904. - 9904. “Bovine animals” means cattle. (Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch....

Section 9907. - 9907. “State TB status” means an area so declared by...

Section 9908. - 9908. “Premises” means any place where cattle have been or...

Section 9909. - 9909. “Purebred animal” means an animal which is identified in...

Section 9910. - 9910. “Reactor” or “reacting bovine animal” means any bovine animal...

Section 9912. - 9912. “Tuberculosis test” means the use of an official test...

Section 9913. - 9913. “Tuberculosis control area” means an area which is established...

Section 9914. - 9914. “Tuberculosis-exposed cattle” means cattle that have been in contact...

ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions

Section 9931. - 9931. To carry out the provisions of this chapter, the...

Section 9932. - 9932. The State Veterinarian may make regulations as are reasonably...

Section 9933. - 9933. The department may enter into any cooperative agreement with...

ARTICLE 3 - Sale and Use of Tuberculosis Tests

Section 9941. - 9941. (a) The State Veterinarian may designate approved veterinarians to...

Section 9942. - 9942. Any sale or disposition of tuberculosis tests within the...

Section 9943. - 9943. (a) It is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in...

Section 9944. - 9944. It is unlawful for any person to sell or...

ARTICLE 4 - Tuberculosis Tests

Section 9971. - 9971. Any approved veterinarian or duly authorized representative of the...

Section 9972. - 9972. The result of every tuberculosis test shall be reported...

Section 9973. - 9973. Every reactor, immediately upon the determination of such reaction,...

Section 9974. - 9974. If the State Veterinarian has reason to suspect an...

Section 9975. - 9975. It is unlawful for any person to do any...

Section 9976. - 9976. It is a misdemeanor which is punishable by imprisonment...

Section 9977. - 9977. It is a misdemeanor which is punishable by imprisonment...

Section 9978. - 9978. Permission in writing may be obtained from the department...

Section 9979. - 9979. It is unlawful for any person to apply a...

Section 9980. - 9980. It is unlawful for any person to knowingly apply...

Section 9981. - 9981. It is unlawful for any person to have any...

Section 9982. - 9982. It is unlawful for any person to knowingly sell,...

ARTICLE 5 - Tuberculosis Control Areas

Section 10001. - 10001. The department may establish and maintain tuberculosis control areas...

Section 10003. - 10003. When the department establishes a tuberculosis control area, the...

Section 10004. - 10004. The State Veterinarian may authorize the testing of any...

Section 10006. - 10006. All owners of cattle within a tuberculosis control area...

Section 10007. - 10007. Cattle moving into a tuberculosis control area must meet...

ARTICLE 7 - Slaughter of Reacting Bovine Animals

Section 10061. - 10061. The State Veterinarian may impose a quarantine pursuant to...

Section 10062. - 10062. The value of the reacting bovine animal for which...

Section 10063. - 10063. Within 30 days after the appraisal of the reacting...

Section 10064. - 10064. Animals shall be tested or slaughtered pursuant to this...

Section 10065. - 10065. The slaughtering of any reacting bovine animal, pursuant to...

Section 10066. - 10066. The carcasses of the slaughtered animals shall be disposed...

Section 10067. - 10067. If an animal is slaughtered pursuant to this article,...

Section 10068. - 10068. Indemnity provided by this article shall not be paid...

Section 10069. - 10069. A subsequent payment of indemnity shall not be made...

Section 10070. - 10070. The pedigree of any purebred bovine animal shall be...

Section 10071. - 10071. Each claim against the state for payment for the...

ARTICLE 9 - Tuberculosis-Exposed Cattle

Section 10100. - 10100. The State Veterinarian may impose a quarantine pursuant to...

Section 10101. - 10101. The State Veterinarian may impose tuberculosis testing requirements for...

Section 10102. - 10102. Indemnity for reacting tuberculosis-exposed cattle may be available and...

Section 10103. - 10103. The State Veterinarian may issue a special permit for...

ARTICLE 11 - Confinement of Cattle Subject to Examination

Section 10151. - 10151. If the owner or any person that is in...

Section 10152. - 10152. Any expense which is incurred by the department pursuant...

CHAPTER 3 - Bovine Brucellosis

ARTICLE 1 - Definitions

Section 10301. - 10301. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this...

Section 10302. - 10302. “Accredited veterinarian” means a veterinarian who is so designated...

Section 10303. - 10303. “Bovine animals” means neat cattle. (Enacted by Stats. 1967,...

Section 10304. - 10304. “Brucellosis” means the disease of cattle which is caused...

Section 10305. - 10305. “Brucellosis control area,” means any area that has been...

Section 10306. - 10306. “Cattle” means neat cattle. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch....

Section 10307. - 10307. “Official veterinarian” means a veterinarian who is in the...

Section 10308. - 10308. “Premises” means any place where cattle have been or...

Section 10309. - 10309. “Reactor” or “reacting bovine animal” means any bovine animal...

Section 10310. - 10310. “Vaccinate” or “vaccination” means the use of vaccine in...

Section 10311. - 10311. “Vaccine” means any vaccine which is produced by a...

ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions

Section 10321. - 10321. The department may enter into any cooperative arrangement with...

Section 10322. - 10322. To carry out the provisions of this chapter, any...

Section 10323. - 10323. The department may use the services of official veterinarians...

Section 10324. - 10324. The director may make such regulations as are reasonably...

Section 10325. - 10325. Every accredited veterinarian who is conducting work pursuant to...

Section 10326. - 10326. In addition to any other authority in this part...

Section 10327. - 10327. To accomplish the purpose of this chapter and to...

ARTICLE 3 - Vaccines

Section 10341. - 10341. Any vaccine which is used pursuant to this chapter...

Section 10342. - 10342. It is unlawful for any person, except a federal,...

ARTICLE 4 - Vaccinations

Section 10351. - 10351. All female dairy calves shall be vaccinated by an...

Section 10352. - 10352. Each calf which is vaccinated pursuant to this chapter...

Section 10353. - 10353. The owner of any calf which is to be...

Section 10354. - 10354. If the owner or any person that is in...

Section 10355. - 10355. Any expense which is incurred by the department pursuant...

Section 10356. - 10356. The vaccination of any bovine animal pursuant to the...

Section 10357. - 10357. It is unlawful for any person to refuse to...

Section 10358. - 10358. It is unlawful for any person to remove any...

Section 10359. - 10359. It is unlawful for any person, except a federal,...

ARTICLE 5 - Brucellosis Control Areas

Section 10381. - 10381. The department may, after hearing, establish and maintain brucellosis...

Section 10382. - 10382. The department shall examine and test such cattle for...

Section 10383. - 10383. All owners of cattle which are subject to examination...

Section 10384. - 10384. If any owner or person that is in charge...

Section 10385. - 10385. Any expense which is incurred by the department pursuant...

Section 10386. - 10386. The director shall, by regulation, designate the conditions under...

Section 10387. - 10387. It is unlawful for any person to refuse to...

ARTICLE 6 - Slaughter of Reacting Bovine Animals

Section 10401. - 10401. Any bovine animal in a brucellosis control area that...

Section 10402. - 10402. The value of an animal which is slaughtered shall...

Section 10403. - 10403. Within 30 days after the appraisal of the animal,...

Section 10404. - 10404. Where it is necessary to prevent the spread within...

Section 10405. - 10405. If an animal is slaughtered pursuant to this article,...

Section 10406. - 10406. Indemnity shall not be paid to any person in...

Section 10406.5. - 10406.5. (a) The owner of a herd that is subject...

Section 10407. - 10407. A subsequent payment of indemnity shall not be made...

ARTICLE 7 - Slaughter of Exposed Nonreacting Animals

Section 10421. - 10421. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the secretary...

Section 10422. - 10422. The value of a nonreacting animal that is slaughtered...

Section 10422.5. - 10422.5. If a nonreacting animal is slaughtered pursuant to this...

Section 10423. - 10423. Indemnity provided by this article shall not be paid...

ARTICLE 8 - Brucellosis Eradication Compensation Costs

Section 10492. - 10492. If an owner of cattle refuses to slaughter exposed,...

Section 10493. - 10493. The following procedures shall be followed when brucellosis has...

Section 10494. - 10494. If an owner of brucellosis infected or exposed cattle...

Section 10495. - 10495. If an owner of a brucellosis infected herd violates...

Section 10496. - 10496. (a) An owner who fails to achieve eradication of...

CHAPTER 4 - Cattle Disease Control

Section 10610. - 10610. (a) The Secretary of the Department of Food and...

PART 3 - DISEASED SWINE

CHAPTER 1 - Importation and Sale

ARTICLE 1 - Definitions

Section 10701. - 10701. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this...

Section 10702. - 10702. “Health certificate” means a health certificate from either a...

Section 10703. - 10703. “Sales yard” includes any livestock yard, pen, corral, building,...

Section 10704. - 10704. “Premises” is the farm of origin where swine were...

ARTICLE 2 - Importation

Section 10721. - 10721. (a) It is unlawful for any person to import...

Section 10722. - 10722. The health certificate shall certify that the swine to...

Section 10723. - 10723. The health certificate shall also show all of the...

Section 10724. - 10724. The original of the health certificate shall be attached...

Section 10725. - 10725. Swine that are imported into this state for purposes...

Section 10726. - 10726. Swine that are imported into this state for immediate...

ARTICLE 3 - Sales Yards

Section 10751. - 10751. Any person that operates a sales yard shall keep...

Section 10752. - 10752. The sales yard records shall show definite information relative...

Section 10753. - 10753. It is unlawful for any person to knowingly bring...

ARTICLE 4 - Swine Disease Control

Section 10781. - 10781. The director may adopt regulations to control or eradicate...

Section 10782. - 10782. The department, after notice and hearing, may revoke a...

Section 10783. - 10783. A previous violation of any provision of this chapter,...

Section 10784. - 10784. Any proceeding for the denial or revocation of a...

Section 10785. - 10785. If the secretary finds and determines that similar regulations...

Section 10786. - 10786. (a) (1) Whenever a person violates any regulation that...

ARTICLE 5 - Marking and Validations

Section 10791. - 10791. (a) The department shall adopt regulations to require a...

CHAPTER 2 - Garbage Control

ARTICLE 1 - Definitions

Section 10901. - 10901. As used in this chapter, “garbage” means any waste...

ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions

Section 10921. - 10921. The director may make and enforce such regulations as...

Section 10922. - 10922. The director may enter any premises where garbage is...

Section 10923. - 10923. Every person that is subject to this chapter shall...

ARTICLE 3 - Processing

Section 10951. - 10951. In order to prevent the spread of vesicular exanthema...

Section 10952. - 10952. All garbage, regardless of previous processing, before being fed...

ARTICLE 4 - Licensing

Section 10981. - 10981. It is unlawful for any person to feed garbage...

Section 10982. - 10982. An application for a license to feed garbage to...

Section 10983. - 10983. Each application for a license shall be accompanied by...

Section 10984. - 10984. An application for renewal of a license, accompanied by...

Section 10985. - 10985. To any fee which is not paid when due,...

Section 10986. - 10986. Each license issued pursuant to this chapter entitles the...

Section 10987. - 10987. The director may refuse to issue a license or...

Section 10988. - 10988. The proceedings for all hearings pursuant to this chapter...

Section 10989. - 10989. Any institution or agency of the state, a county,...

Section 10990. - 10990. This chapter does not prohibit any city or county...

PART 4 - ANIMALS DETRIMENTAL TO AGRICULTURE

CHAPTER 1 - Importation and Transportation

Section 11201. - 11201. Sections 5025, 6304, and 6305 of this code are...

CHAPTER 2 - Predators

ARTICLE 1 - Hunters and Trappers

Section 11221. - 11221. The director may employ hunters and trappers throughout the...

Section 11222. - 11222. For the purposes of this article, the director may...

Section 11223. - 11223. No iron or steel-jawed trap shall be used by...

ARTICLE 3 - Donations

Section 11261. - 11261. The director may accept, on behalf of the state,...

Section 11262. - 11262. Money which is made available by any board of...

ARTICLE 4 - Management of Coyotes on Public Lands

Section 11281. - 11281. If any coyotes are found to exist on land...

Section 11282. - 11282. Prior to implementation of any control program pursuant to...

Section 11283. - 11283. The director shall submit an annual memorandum of understanding...

Section 11284. - 11284. Nothing in this article authorizes the use of Compound...

ARTICLE 5 - Management of Coyotes on State Park Lands and in Ecological Reserves

Section 11301. - 11301. As used in this article, “state park lands” means...

Section 11302. - 11302. The director, upon receiving information causing him or her...

Section 11303. - 11303. Upon a determination pursuant to Section 11302 that coyotes...

Section 11304. - 11304. The Department of Parks and Recreation or the Department...

Section 11305. - 11305. Nothing in this article authorizes the use of Compound...