(a) Livestock Affected with Contagious, Infectious, or Communicable Disease. It shall be unlawful for any person to bring into or receive in, or to transport from place to place within the County of San Bernardino, except for the purpose of immediate slaughter, any livestock affected with any contagious, infectious or communicable disease, without a permit from the Public Health Veterinarian, except such diseased animals as are specifically permitted to enter the State of California and the County of San Bernardino under Federal or California State regulations and only under the conditions and for the purpose prescribed in the Federal and State regulations governing movement of livestock.
(b) Livestock Placed in an Approved Stockyard. It shall be unlawful for any person to bring into or receive in the County of San Bernardino, any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats for any purpose other than immediate slaughter without a permit from the Public Health Veterinarian; provided however, that such cattle, sheep, swine, horses, or goats, other than cattle imported for dairy or breeding purposes, are unloaded from a vehicle into public stockyards where Federal, State, or County inspection is maintained for the inspection of livestock for infectious diseases, such permit shall not be required until they are to be removed from such stockyards. Such stockyards shall be approved by the Public Health Veterinarian and shall be so constructed as to permit human handling, proper control without inhumane crowding or delay, and thorough inspection including provision for restraining individual animals. They shall permit animals to be fed, rested, and watered with sufficient potable water. Proper drainage, and facilities for disinfections when required by the Public Health Veterinarian, and provisions for the removal of accumulations of manure and the prevention of the formation of mud and wallow, shall be supplied. Such approval may be withdrawn in the event such stockyards at any time fail to comply with the requirements of this Section.
(c) Removal of Livestock to Public Stockyard. All livestock entering the County of San Bernardino for the purpose of immediate slaughter by any method of transportation or by driving on hoof, must be moved directly to a public stockyard or to the premise upon which they are to be slaughtered, except that such livestock in railroad shipments may be unloaded enroute in order to comply with the provisions of what is known as the “28 hour law” of the United States Department of Agriculture.
(d) Report of Arrival. Immediately upon the arrival of the cattle into the County of San Bernardino, the fact of such arrival shall be reported to the Public Health Veterinarian. The Public Health Veterinarian shall mark the cattle for identification with tags or otherwise, and make a record showing the date of arrival, description of the cattle, the name of the owner and of the person in charge of the cattle, and the place in which they are to be kept. No person shall remove or tamper with any identification mark placed on an animal by the Public Health Veterinarian for the purpose of identification.
(e) Restrictions on the Movement of Imported Cattle. No person shall sell any cattle or move cattle from place to place within a period of 120 days after their arrival, unless such cattle have been released by the Public Health Veterinarian.
(f) Tuberculin Test. No person shall inject or cause to be injected, tuberculin into any cattle brought into the County of San Bernardino for a period of 120 days after their arrival, except by permission of the Public Health Veterinarian.
(1) Restrictions on Injection. No person shall inject or cause to be injected, tuberculin into any cattle except when used in connection with a tuberculin test as defined in § 32.0501 of this Chapter.
(2) Records. The following records of all cattle tuberculin tested in San Bernardino County must be filed with the Public Health Veterinarian within five days after completion of the test: Owner, address or location of herd, number of cattle in the herd, number of cattle tested, number of cattle reacting, such description as would identify each animal tested, identification number of each animal tested.
(3) Removal of Cattle Before Completion. No person shall move from any premise, any cattle upon which a tuberculin test has been started until the same shall have been completed, without the permission of the veterinarian conducting such test, nor in any way interfere with the proper conduction of such test, after it shall have been started.
(g) Quarantine. Whenever the Public Health Veterinarian shall have cause to believe that there is danger that any cattle brought into the County of San Bernardino are afflicted with tuberculosis, he or she shall cause such cattle to be examined and tested for tuberculosis. Such test or tests may be made at any time within 120 days after the arrival of such cattle into the County of San Bernardino.
(h) Prohibiting the Sale of Untested Cattle. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale any cattle for dairy or breeding purposes in the County of San Bernardino, unless such cattle have been examined and tested for tuberculosis within 30 days preceding such sale, by a Federal or State veterinarian, or the Public Health Veterinarian, or by a veterinarian duly authorized by such officials to apply such test; provided that this Section shall not apply to cattle which have been regularly tested by representatives of the Federal or State Department of Agriculture under the laws, rules and regulations applicable to dairies operating under the Federal Accredited Herd Plan or the Agricultural Code of the State of California; and further provides that the 30-day period may be waived by the Public Health Veterinarian.
(i) Expense of Test. Whenever an owner requests of the Public Health Veterinarian that his or her cattle be tested for tuberculosis, the expense of such test shall be borne by the owner, unless said request shall be made under the provisions of the Agricultural Code of the State of California, and said owner shall agree in writing to conform in all respects to said State law and the rules and regulations of the Public Health Veterinarian applying to tuberculin tests and disposal of reacting animals, provided that whenever five or less cattle are sold for dairy and breeding purposes and a test for tuberculosis is required under the provisions of this Chapter, the Public Health Veterinarian shall, at the request of the owner thereof, conduct one such test without charge, within a period of six months.
(j) Identification of Cattle Affected With Tuberculosis Slaughter Restricted. All cattle which are shown by examination or by tuberculin test to be afflicted with tuberculosis shall be immediately marked for identification by branding the letter “T” on the left jaw. The letter “T” used for the branding of reacting animals shall be three inches in height from top to bottom and three inches wide at the top, and the branding edge shall not be less than one-quarter of an inch in width. No animals so branded shall be slaughtered or disposed of in any manner whatsoever, or removed from the premises where located when branded, unless permission is first obtained from the Public Health Veterinarian or from the Director of the State Department of Agriculture.
(k) Livestock to Be Confined for Examination and Testing. The owner or person in charge of livestock shall properly confine in stanchions or chutes any livestock which the Public Health Veterinarian may designate for the purpose of examination, injection, observation, administration of tuberculin, mallein, or other specific tests or procedures. If the owner or person in charge refuses to properly confine such livestock for examination of test within 24 hours after he or she is requested to do so by the Public Health Veterinarian, the Public Health Veterinarian may employ help and incur such expense as is necessary to properly control such livestock for the purposes mentioned. The expense so incurred shall be a lien upon said livestock and shall be recovered by action in the name of the County of San Bernardino, unless paid within ten days after written notice of the amount has been given by the Public Health Veterinarian to the owner or person in possession of said livestock.
(l) Disposition of Livestock in Violation of this Chapter. All livestock brought into the County of San Bernardino in violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter shall be subject to quarantine, examination and test at the expense of the owner, by the Public Health Veterinarian who may dispose of such livestock to comport with the welfare of the County of San Bernardino and the protection of the health of the domestic livestock therein.
(Ord. 527, passed - -1958; Am. Ord. 3105, passed - -1986)