01-001 - Maine
01-001 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY
DIVISION OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Chapter 210: POULTRY FOR IMMEDIATE SLAUGHTER
SUMMARY: Certain requirements must be enforced to insure only healthy birds are permitted entry into the State. Supervision of vehicles and containers must be maintained and strict records kept to prevent the introduction of disease herewith listed below.
1. Poultry for Immediate Slaughter
A. Permit and certificate of veterinary inspection are required. Inspection shall be made by an accredited veterinarian and certificate shall accompany request for permit. Inspection shall be made not over two days before request for permit. Certificate shall contain the following information:
1. Names and addresses of consignor, consignee and trucker
2. Date of inspection
3. Number of birds
4. Description of birds
5. Names and addresses of owners of farm or farms where birds were at time of inspection.
6. Certificate shall state that said birds are not affected with any disease reportable in the State of Maine, and that no reportable disease is known to be present in the area where birds are inspected.
7. The names of diseases reportable in the State of Maine follow:
Avian encephalomyelitis
Duck virus enteritis (duck plague)
Equine encephalitis
Erysipelothrix infection
Fowl cholera
Fowl plague (fowl pest)
Fowl pox
Infectious laryngotracheitis
Listeriosis
Newcastle disease
Ornithosis
Salmonellosis (including pullorum disease and fowl typhoid)
Tuberculosis
2. Containers
Poultry boxes, crates and containers shall be new, or disinfected, before being used to move poultry hatching eggs or poultry for breeding or production purposes into the State of Maine, except poultry of the same and known health status as the previous shipment.
3. Records
Livestock and poultry dealers shall keep records of poultry transactions containing type of poultry, firm where purchases, to whom sold, and dates of sale and purchase. Such records shall be available to the said Division of Animal Industry.
4. Zoo Animals and Birds
No animal or bird that has been in any zoo or menagerie shall be removed to any premises in the State of Maine where any domestic animals or poultry are kept. (Zoos are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife).
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: 7 MRSA §1752
EFFECTIVE DATE:
February 8, 1968
October 16, 1978
RE-ADOPTED:
August 28, 1979
EFFECTIVE DATE (ELECTRONIC CONVERSION):
May 4, 1996
CONVERTED TO MS WORD:
May 14, 2008
CORRECTIONS:
February, 2014 – agency names, formatting
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