Section 3a.1. Objectives

This chapter is intended to provide owners, transporters, keepers and potential purchasers of cervids or camelids with guidelines as to those procedures or protocols which the Department intends to apply to ensure that these animals do not introduce dangerous transmissible diseases into the domestic animal population of this Commonwealth, or spread the diseases once they have been detected within this Commonwealth. This chapter is not exhaustive, and does not circumscribe or limit the Department’s authority to take action to protect the health of domestic animals, to allow exceptions to the procedures or protocols set forth in this chapter or to otherwise exercise its discretion under the Domestic Animal Law.

The provisions of this § 3a.1 amended May 19, 2000, effective May 20, 2000, 30 Pa.B. 2482. Immediately preceding text appears at serial page (228065).