(a) General authority.--The department shall have the authority to regularly monitor the domestic animal population of this Commonwealth to determine the prevalence, incidence and location of transmissible diseases or contamination by hazardous substances.
(b) Duty to report.--It shall be the duty of every practitioner of veterinary medicine and every diagnostic laboratory in this Commonwealth, immediately upon receiving information thereof, to report to the department each case of any dangerous transmissible disease and each case of potential contamination by substances declared hazardous by the department.
(c) Violations.--
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to impede, hinder or interfere with the testing of a domestic animal or to refuse to confine a domestic animal so as to allow testing without undue burden on the official conducting the test or to fail to present the person's domestic animals for testing by the department under authority of this chapter after reasonable notice of the proposed testing has been given.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person who has knowledge that a domestic animal is infected with a dangerous transmissible disease or has been exposed to a dangerous transmissible disease or has been contaminated by a hazardous substance to conceal or attempt to conceal such domestic animal or knowledge of such a domestic animal from the department.
(d) Wild animals.--The department shall have the authority to solicit assistance from and provide assistance to Federal and other State agencies, local governments and private entities in monitoring wild animals in this Commonwealth to determine the presence of dangerous transmissible disease. This monitoring may be done in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service or any other private or governmental entity.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Section 2301 - Short title of chapter
Section 2302 - Finding, policy and purpose
Section 2304 - Diagnostic services and research
Section 2305 - Keeping and handling of domestic animals
Section 2311 - General authority
Section 2312 - Adoption of form of identification
Section 2313 - Certified copies
Section 2314 - Brand, tattoo or other form of identification as proof of ownership
Section 2315 - Disputes in custody or ownership
Section 2316 - Sale or assignment of form of identification
Section 2317 - Violations and penalty
Section 2318 - Fees and forfeiture
Section 2321 - Dangerous transmissible diseases
Section 2322 - Neoplastic diseases, metabolic diseases and heritable diseases
Section 2323 - Health requirements
Section 2324 - Safety of domestic animal feed
Section 2327 - Disease surveillance and detection
Section 2328 - Entry on premises
Section 2331 - Indemnification
Section 2332 - Depopulation incentive
Section 2333 - Restriction on payment of indemnification and depopulation incentive
Section 2334 - Report on insurance or cost-sharing program
Section 2335 - Contract growers
Section 2341 - General authority
Section 2342 - License of dealers and haulers
Section 2343 - Licensure of agents
Section 2344 - Verification of application
Section 2346 - Term of license
Section 2347 - Posting and display of license
Section 2348 - Denial, suspension or revocation of license
Section 2349 - Records and inspections
Section 2351 - General authority
Section 2352 - Disposal of dead domestic animals
Section 2353 - Disposal of animal waste
Section 2354 - Licensure requirement of dead domestic animal disposal businesses
Section 2355 - Licensing procedure
Section 2356 - Conditions of licensure
Section 2357 - Denial, suspension or revocation of license
Section 2361 - General authority
Section 2362 - Humane methods of slaughtering domestic animals
Section 2371 - Licensure requirement
Section 2372 - Application and fee
Section 2373 - Issuance of license
Section 2374 - Term of license and renewal
Section 2375 - Posting of license
Section 2376 - Heating certain garbage before feeding
Section 2377 - Prohibitions and conditions
Section 2379 - Notice to remedy and denial, suspension or revocation of license
Section 2380.2 - License required
Section 2380.5 - Term; renewal
Section 2380.6 - Keeping and handling of cervids
Section 2380.7 - Periodic inspections
Section 2380.8 - Violations by licensees
Section 2380.9 - Game and Wildlife Code and regulations
Section 2383 - Enforcement and penalties
Section 2384 - Disposition of fees, fines and civil penalties
Section 2385 - Interference with officer or employee of department
Section 2387 - Inapplicability of penal cruelty to animals statutes
Section 2388 - Exemption for governmental entities