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Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. The following words as used in this chapter,...
Section 2 - Powers and Duties of Director; Orders - Section 2. The director may make and enforce reasonable orders,...
Section 3 - Records of Inspectors; Forms - Section 3. The director shall make and prescribe forms for...
Section 4 - Certification of Documents by Clerk - Section 4. The director may designate an employee of the...
Section 5 - Entry of Orders, Rules and Regulations on Records; Publication - Section 5. All orders, rules and regulations made by the...
Section 6 - Aid to Director and Inspectors by Sheriffs, Constables and Police Officers - Section 6. Sheriffs, constables and police officers shall upon request...
Section 7 - Entry on Premises - Section 7. For the purpose of inspecting or examining animals...
Section 8 - Hospitals and Quarantine Stations - Section 8. The director may establish hospitals or quarantine stations,...
Section 9 - Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Animal Rescue League of Boston; Agents; Powers and Duties - Section 9. The agents of the Massachusetts Society for the...
Section 10 - Examination of Persons Under Oath; Mandatory Attendance and Testimony of Witnesses - Section 10. The director may examine on oath all persons...
Section 11 - Isolation or Destruction of Diseased Animals; Post Mortem Examination - Section 11. If the director, or one of his agents,...
Section 13a - Destruction of Animals Affected With Scrapie; Partial Compensation - Section 13A. All sheep and other domestic animals which are...
Section 14 - Destruction of Animals Affected With Foot and Mouth Disease; Disinfection or Destruction of Buildings - Section 14. All neat cattle and other domestic animals, which...
Section 14a - Quarantine or Destruction of Animals Affected With Vesicular Stomatitis or Vesicular Exanthema - Section 14A. All domestic animals which are affected with vesicular...
Section 14b - Feeding Garbage to Swine - Section 14B. The word ''garbage'' means any meat waste, or...
Section 14c - Hog Cholera; Slaughtering of Hogs; Payment to Owners - Section 14C. All hogs which are affected with, or have...
Section 14d - Hogs Affected With Brucellosis; Quarantine and Testing - Section 14D. All hogs which are affected with, or have...
Section 14e - Breeding, Feeder or Slaughter Swine Imported Into Commonwealth - Section 14E. All breeding swine imported into the commonwealth shall...
Section 15 - Inspector of Animals; Appointment - Section 15. The city manager in cities having a plan...
Section 16 - Refusal or Neglect of Town to Appoint Inspector; Appointment by Director - Section 16. A town shall, for each refusal or neglect...
Section 17 - Oath of Inspectors; Compensation; Reimbursement of Towns - Section 17. Each inspector shall be sworn to the faithful...
Section 18 - Duties of Inspectors; Training; Enforcement - Section 18. (a) Each inspector shall comply with and enforce...
Section 19 - Inspections of Domestic Animals - Section 19. Inspectors shall make regular and thorough inspections of...
Section 20 - Certificate of Healthy Condition - Section 20. An inspector who is satisfied, upon an examination...
Section 21 - Quarantine of Diseased Animals; Notice or Order; Records - Section 21. An inspector who, upon an examination of a...
Section 22 - Service of Notice or Order of Quarantine; Return; Evidence - Section 22. Such notice or order may be served by...
Section 22a - Dogs Owned by Police Departments or Agencies - Section 22A. The provisions of sections twenty-one and twenty-two shall...
Section 23 - Examination of Buildings; Report - Section 23. Inspectors shall, in addition to their inspections of...
Section 24 - Notice of Quarantine - Section 24. An inspector who has caused a domestic animal...
Section 25 - Records of Inspectors of Animals; Returns - Section 25. Each inspector shall keep a record of all...
Section 26 - Application of Chapter to Inspectors in Boston - Section 26. The provisions of this chapter relative to the...
Section 26a - Shipping Cattle Into Commonwealth Without Inspection; Certificate of Health - Section 26A. Whoever ships, drives or transports into the commonwealth...
Section 26b - Hatching Eggs; Baby Chicks or Live Poultry; Restriction on Sale, Transportation or Importation - Section 26B. No person shall buy, sell or transport within...
Section 27 - Seizure, Quarantine and Destruction of Imported Diseased Animals - Section 27. Animals brought into this commonwealth from places which...
Section 28 - Notice of Contagious Disease to Director - Section 28. The board of health of a town, any...
Section 29 - Expense of Quarantine - Section 29. If animals have been quarantined, collected or isolated...
Section 30 - Effect of Quarantine; Release; Violation of Quarantine; Penalty - Section 30. An animal which has been quarantined or isolated...
Section 31 - Damages; Arbitration; Petition for Assessment of Damages - Section 31. If an owner is entitled to compensation for...
Section 31a - Shipping or Delivering Tuberculin Within Commonwealth; Statement as to Use; Application to Common Carriers - Section 31A. Every person who, himself or by his servant...
Section 32 - Use of Tuberculin as Diagnostic Agent; Tests - Section 32. Tuberculin as a diagnostic agent for the detection...
Section 33 - Compensation for Animals Reacting to Tuberculin Test; Appraisals - Section 33. Except as otherwise provided, a person who has...
Section 33a - Identification of Reacting Bovine Animals; Removal of Tag; Disposition of Tagged Animals - Section 33A. Any bovine animal which reacts to a tuberculin...
Section 33b - Declaration of Quarantine Areas; Tuberculin Tests of Bovine Animals; Modified Accredited Areas; Violation of Terms of Quarantine - Section 33B. The director may, upon application to him by...
Section 33c - Declaration of Quarantine Area; Tests for Brucellosis of Bovine Animals; Modified Certified Brucellosis Free Area; Violation of Terms of Quarantine - Section 33C. The director may upon application to him by...
Section 33d - Tests for Detection of Brucellosis; Identification of Animals; Destruction - Section 33D. Prior to the first day of January, nineteen...
Section 34 - Compensation to Violators of Regulations - Section 34. No compensation shall be allowed by the commonwealth...
Section 35 - Driving Certain Cattle on Public Ways or Roads - Section 35. Texan, Mexican, Cherokee, Indian or other cattle, which...
Section 36 - Notice of Contagious Diseases - Section 36. Whoever kills an animal or causes it to...
Section 36b - Vaccination of Female Calves; Identification of Positive Reactors; Transportation of Unvaccinated Bovine Animals - Section 36B. The director shall cause all female calves to...
Section 36d - Importation of Vaccinated Animals; Conditions - Section 36D. Vaccinated animals which are over eighteen months of...
Section 36e - Importation of Unvaccinated Female Cattle Over Five Months of Age - Section 36E. Subject to rules promulgated by the commissioner of...
Section 36f - Brucellosis, Imported Cattle, Blood Testing - Section 36F. The director, his authorized agent or a duly...
Section 36g - Reimbursement of Owners for Slaughter of Animals Reacting Positively to Blood Test for Brucellosis; Appraisal - Section 36G. If any animal tested by an approved licensed...
Section 36h - Waiver of Compliance With Secs. 36b, 36d to 36f - Section 36H. The director may after a hearing grant, in...
Section 37 - Enforcement Actions; Jurisdiction of Commissioner of Agriculture, District and Superior Courts - Section 37. As used in this section, the word ''commissioner''...
Section 38 - Annual Report - Section 38. The commissioner of food and agriculture shall make...
Section 39 - Licensing of Persons Dealing in Bovine and Porcine Animals; Fee - Section 39. Every person engaging in the business of dealing...
Section 39a - Pet Shops; Licensing Operation; Animal Health Inspections - Section 39A. Every person engaged in the business of operating...
Section 39b - Guard Dog Businesses; Licenses - Section 39B. Every person engaged in operating a guard dog...
Section 39c - Hearing Dog Business; Licenses - Section 39C. Every person engaged in the hearing dog business...
Section 39d - Hearing Dog Business; Access to Public Facilities - Section 39D. A person engaged in the hearing dog business,...
Section 39e - Livestock Auction Business; Licenses - Section 39E. As used in the section, the word ''livestock''...
Section 39f - Service Dogs; Trainer Rights - Section 39F. A person accompanied by and engaged in the...
Section 39g - Official Health Certificate Requirement for Dog or Cat Brought or Shipped Into Commonwealth; Purchase of Animal for Resale; Vaccination Record; Devocalization Prohibited - Section 39G. (a) A dog or cat brought or shipped...
Section 40 - License Plates for Vehicles Used for Transportation of Bovine or Porcine Animals; Fee; Revocation - Section 40. Each vehicle used for the transportation of bovine...
Section 40a - Hog Cholera Vaccine; Prohibited Use - Section 40A. No person shall use, sell, expose for sale,...
Section 41 - Bill of Sale or Memorandum Signed by Owner of Persons Transporting Bovine Animals; Exhibition on Demand - Section 41. All persons who transport bovine animals upon any...
Section 42 - Tagging Bovine Animal With Identification Tag - Section 42. No person, other than a licensed veterinarian or...
Section 43 - Penalties for Violation of Secs. 39 to 42 - Section 43. Whoever violates any provisions of sections thirty-nine to...
Section 44 - Testing of Imported Equine Animals for Infectious Anemia; Certification - Section 44. No person shall import into the commonwealth any...
Section 44a - Destruction or Quarantine of Infected Equine Animals - Section 44A. Any equine animal positive to a test approved...
Section 45 - License to Deal in or Auction Equine Animals - Section 45. Every person engaging in the business of dealing...
Section 46 - License Plates for Vehicles Transporting Equine Animals - Section 46. Each vehicle used for the transportation of equine...
Section 47 - Bill of Sale or Memorandum - Section 47. A person who transports equine animals for immediate...
Section 48 - Violations, Penalties - Section 48. Whoever violates any provisions of section forty-five to...