47-611. Quarantine and other regulations; notice of quarantine; proclamation by governor; enforcement; direction by governor; assistance of any state agency. (a) When the animal health commissioner determines that a quarantine and other regulations are necessary to prevent the spread among domestic animals of any contagious or infectious disease, the commissioner shall notify the governor of such determination, and the governor shall issue a proclamation announcing the boundary of such quarantine and the orders and rules and regulations prescribed by the commissioner. Such proclamation shall be published in the Kansas register, except that the commissioner, if the area affected by the quarantine is limited in extent, may dispense with the proclamation of the governor and give such notice as the commissioner shall deem sufficient to make the quarantine effective.
(b) Upon a determination by the governor that a quarantine or other regulations are necessary to prevent the spread among domestic animals of any contagious or infectious disease, the governor shall direct the commissioner to establish a quarantine pursuant to this section.
(c) The governor may require and direct the cooperation and assistance of any state agency in enforcing such quarantine or other regulations pursuant to subsection (a) or (b).
(d) The commissioner shall establish such quarantine immediately and shall give and enforce such directions, rules and regulations as to separating, isolating, handling and treating, feeding and caring for such diseased animals, animals exposed to the disease and animals within the quarantine which have not been immediately exposed, as the commissioner deems necessary to prevent those classes of animals from coming into contact with one another.
(e) The animal health commissioner or the commissioner's designee is hereby authorized and empowered to enter any grounds and premises to carry out the provisions of this act.
History: L. 1911, ch. 312, § 2; R.S. 1923, 47-611; L. 1981, ch. 324, § 15; L. 1989, ch. 156, § 17; L. 2001, ch. 163, § 1; L. 2012, ch. 140, § 37; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 47 - Livestock And Domestic Animals
Article 6 - Protection Of Domestic Animals
47-604 Penalty for violating quarantine.
47-605 Oaths and affirmations.
47-607c Same; penalties for violations.
47-607d Same; rules and regulations.
47-608 Animal health commissioner to cooperate with federal officers.
47-610 State quarantine, sanitary and other regulations; veterinarian; compensation.
47-612 Delivery of animals into quarantine; payment of fees, costs and expenses; sale.
47-613 Quarantine duties of sheriff.
47-614 Killing unconfined, diseased or exposed animals.
47-616 Same; right of indemnity.
47-618 Execution of orders of commissioner; fees of officers; arrests; prosecutions.
47-619 Animal health commissioner; stockyard duties.
47-620 Prohibiting entrance of stock from other states where disease has become epidemic.
47-622 Report of diseases to animal health commissioner.
47-624 Unlawful acts; civil penalties.
47-626 Employees and materials for enforcement of act.
47-627 Treatment for itch or mange; order of commissioner.
47-629a Sale of virulent hog-cholera virus by unauthorized vendors unlawful.
47-629b Sale of virulent hog-cholera virus to unauthorized purchasers unlawful.
47-629c Penalty for violating 47-629 to 47-629b.
47-631 Rules for tuberculin test.
47-632a Same; commissioner not required to examine records.
47-633a Same; condemnation of herd; payment for animals condemned; appraisal animals.
47-634 Disinfection of premises; costs.
47-635 Construction of 47-610 to 47-635.
47-645 Liability of owner of dog for damages.
47-646 Killing dog lawful, when.
47-646a Same; unconfined dogs in violation of quarantine.
47-653a Sale or use of hog cholera vaccines unlawful, when.
47-653b Same; rules and regulations of animal health commissioner.
47-653c Unlawful use of hog cholera vaccines; penalty for violation.
47-657 Rules for approved tests for brucellosis; quarantine and other regulations.
47-658a Brucellosis; identification of reactor animals.
47-658b Same; sale of reactor animals; shipping permit.
47-660 Right of entry to inspect and examine, when.
47-661 Same; duty of persons to assist officials; notice.
47-662 Same; penalty for violating act.
47-663 Sale of cattle as tuberculosis tested unlawful.