1. A person shall not maintain swine other than feeder pigs or cull swine at an approved premises.

 a. A person shall not move or relocate swine to an approved premises, unless all of the following apply:

 (1) The swine is a feeder pig or cull swine.
 (2) The swine is not exposed or from a herd of unknown status.
 b. A person shall not receive swine at an approved premises, unless the swine is one of the following:

 (1) The swine is a feeder pig or cull swine.
 (2) The swine is not exposed or from a herd of unknown status.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 166D.10B

  • Approved premises: means a dry lot facility located in an area with confirmed cases of pseudorabies infection, which is certified by the department to receive, feed, and move or relocate infected swine as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • Cleanup plan: means a herd cleanup plan or feeder pig cooperator herd cleanup plan as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • Cull swine: means mature swine fed for purposes of direct slaughter. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • Department: means the department of environmental quality in a reference to a time before July 1, 1983, the department of water, air and waste management in a reference to a time on or after July 1, 1983, and through June 30, 1986, and the department of natural resources on or after July 1, 1986, and includes any officer or agency within that department. See Iowa Code 172D.1
  • Exposed: means an animal that has not been kept separate and apart or isolated from livestock infected with pseudorabies, including all swine in a known infected herd. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • Feeder pig: means an immature swine fed for purposes of direct slaughter which weighs one hundred pounds or less. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Herd: means a group of swine as established by departmental rule. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • Herd of unknown status: means all swine except swine which are part of a known infected herd, swine known to have been exposed to pseudorabies, or swine which are part of a noninfected herd. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • Livestock: means swine, cattle, sheep, goats, horses, ostriches, rheas, or emus. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • movement: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • Noninfected herd: means a herd which is one of the following:
     a. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • Owner: shall mean the person holding record title to real estate to include both legal and equitable interests under recorded real estate contracts. See Iowa Code 172D.1
  • person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Pseudorabies: means the contagious, infectious, and communicable disease of livestock and other animals known as Aujeszky's disease, mad itch, or infectious bulbar paralysis. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • Qualified differentiable negative herd: means a herd in which one hundred percent of the herd's breeding swine have been vaccinated and have reacted negatively to a differentiable test and which have been retested, as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • Qualified negative herd: means a herd in which one hundred percent of the herd's breeding swine have reacted negatively to a test, and have not been vaccinated, and which is retested as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • relocation: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • Restricted movement: means swine which are moved or relocated as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • Test: means a serum neutralization (SN) test, virus isolation test, ELISA test, or other test approved by the department and performed by a laboratory approved by the department. See Iowa Code 166D.2
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
 2. If swine is moved or relocated to an approved premises, the following shall apply:

 a. A cull swine shall not be moved or relocated to an approved premises, unless the cull swine reacts negatively to a test and is vaccinated prior to the movement or relocation, as provided in section 166D.10.
 b. A noninfected feeder pig must be vaccinated upon arrival at the approved premises.
 3. Dead swine must be disposed of in accordance with chapter 167. The dead swine must be held so as to prevent animals, including wild animals and livestock, from reaching the dead swine.
 4. The following shall apply to the location of an approved premises:

 a. An approved premises shall not be located within one and one-half miles from a noninfected herd, other than a qualified negative herd or qualified differentiable negative herd.
 b. An approved premises shall not be located within three miles from a qualified negative herd or a qualified differentiable negative herd.
 c. An approved premises shall not be located in any of the following:

 (1) A county in stage III of the national pseudorabies eradication program, as designated by the department.
 (2) A county which has a zero percent prevalence of infection among all herds in the county at any time on or after March 1, 2000, regardless of whether the county subsequently has a greater than zero percent prevalence of infection among all herds in the county.
 5. A feeder pig or a cull swine may be kept at the approved premises only for purposes of feeding and restricted movement as provided in section 166D.10.
 6. a. The department must certify a location as an approved premises pursuant to rules adopted by the department. The department may adopt rules providing for the renewal, suspension, or termination of a certification. The terms and conditions of the certification shall be part of the cleanup plan required for the herd kept at the location pursuant to section 166D.8. Except as provided in this subsection, a location is certified as an approved premises, as long as all of the following apply:

 (1) The approved premises complies with the requirements of this section and rules adopted by the department.
 (2) The owner of the approved premises or the person managing the approved premises provides to the department during normal business hours access to the approved premises and records required by this subparagraph. Records of swine transfers must be kept for at least one year. Records of vaccinations occurring on the approved premises must be maintained by the owner for at least one year after vaccination. The records shall include information about purchases and sales, the names of buyers and sellers, the dates of transactions, and the number of swine involved in each transaction.
 b. The department shall terminate the certification of an approved premises if the county in which the approved premises is located has a zero percent prevalence of infection among all herds in the county, not counting a herd kept at the approved premises. The department shall provide for the suspension or termination of the certification for a violation of a term or condition of the certification. When a certification is suspended, terminated, or not renewed, the location shall remain under a cleanup plan until released pursuant to the provisions of section 166D.8.
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