(1) Except as herein otherwise provided any person holding a license under this chapter may haul and transport the bodies or parts thereof of animals, poultry and fish that have died from a communicable disease in a covered vehicle, bed or tank which is so constructed that no drippings or seepings from such bodies can escape from such vehicle, bed or tank.
(2) The hauling or transporting of the bodies or parts thereof of any animals, poultry or fish that have died of a highly contagious, infectious or communicable disease shall be prohibited except by specific methods approved by the department.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 263.120

  • Animals: include all members of species equine, ovine, bovine, porcine, feline, canine, lapin and avian. See Kentucky Statutes 263.010
  • Communicable disease: includes hog cholera, brucellosis, leptospirosis, anthrax, black leg, catarrhal influenza in cattle, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, foot and mouth disease or aphthous fever, glanders, hemorrhagic septicemia, maladie du coit or dourine, mange of cattle, necrobacillosis and foot rot in sheep, hydrophobia, rinderpest, scabies in cattle, Texas tick or southern cattle fever, tuberculosis or any other disease proclaimed by the board to be of a transmissible character. See Kentucky Statutes 263.010
  • Department: means the Department of Agriculture. See Kentucky Statutes 263.010

History: Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 47, secs. 12 and 13.

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