Title 35, Agriculture
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-101 Short title
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This article shall be known and may be cited as the Livestock Health Act. Source: L. 2005: Entire article R&RE, p. 447, � 1, effective December 1.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-102 Legislative declaration
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The general assembly finds and declares that the diagnosis, control, and eradication of livestock diseases are matters of statewide concern. Livestock disease control is essential to the livestock industry and the health of the economy of the state of Colorado. The provisions of …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-103 Definitions
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As used in this article 50, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Accredited veterinarian means a veterinarian approved by the United States department of agriculture in accordance with 9 CFR 161, as may be amended from time to time. (2) Commission means the state agricultur…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-104 State veterinarian and authorized representatives
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(1) Subject to section 13 of article XII of the state constitution, the commissioner is authorized to employ a licensed doctor of veterinary medicine as state veterinarian, who will be an authorized representative of the department. (2) The commissioner may employ, as assistants …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-105 Powers and duties of the commissioner
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(1) The commissioner is responsible for regulation related to livestock disease or other livestock emergencies among or affecting livestock in the state. (2) The commissioner is authorized to administer and enforce the provisions of, and any rules adopted pursuant to, this articl…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-106 Veterinary vaccine and service fund - expenditures - rules
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(1) The commissioner may promulgate such rules as are necessary to establish a fund into which the proceeds from the sale of supplies and services shall be deposited. The proceeds from this fund are specifically and continuously appropriated for personnel necessary to carry out t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-107 Disease detection and prevention
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Whenever the commissioner reasonably suspects that livestock are in or from an area of concentration or point of distribution where there is a potential for the spread of disease or that the livestock may have been exposed to or are suffering from an infectious or contagious dise…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-108 Mandatory reporting
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(1) Any person who knows or has reason to believe that any livestock that belongs to or is in the possession of such person, or any livestock upon such person's premises, has a reportable disease shall immediately report such disease to the state veterinarian. (2) Whenever any ve…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-109 Inspection and testing
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(1) Whenever it becomes known to the commissioner that an infectious or contagious disease exists among livestock of the state, the commissioner may inspect all livestock in the state. (2) Whenever it becomes known to the commissioner that an infectious or contagious disease exis…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-109.5 Investigations - access - administrative subpoena
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(1) The commissioner may investigate as necessary to ensure compliance with this article 50. (2) (a) At any reasonable time during regular business hours, upon consent or upon obtaining an administrative search warrant, the commissioner shall have access to all buildings, yards, …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-110 State livestock disease diagnostic laboratories
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The animal health laboratory in the department and the Colorado state university veterinary diagnostic laboratories, collectively known as the state livestock disease diagnostic laboratories, shall function to provide disease testing to support the department's livestock disease …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-111 Quarantine
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(1) Whenever the commissioner deems it necessary to quarantine any specific livestock, premises, county, district, or section of the state for the purpose of preventing the spread of an infectious or contagious disease among the livestock within the state, the commissioner may, t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-112 Importation of livestock - pet animal health certificates
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(1) It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to ship or drive into Colorado any livestock unless such livestock are accompanied by an official health certificate, except as may be set forth in rules promulgated by the commissioner. Such health certificate shall be in t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-113 Condemnation of livestock
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(1) Whenever the state veterinarian reports to the commission that there exists an outbreak of contagious or infectious disease among livestock of this state of such a character as to endanger and imperil the livestock of the state, the commission, upon approval of the governor, …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-116 Unlawful acts
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(1) Unless otherwise authorized by law, it is unlawful and a violation of this article 50 for any person: (a) To refuse or fail to comply with the provisions of this article; (b) To refuse or fail to comply with any rules adopted by the commissioner pursuant to this article or wi…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-117 Enforcement
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(1) The commission or its designee shall enforce this article. (2) Whenever the commission or its designee has reasonable cause to believe a violation of any provision of this article or any rule promulgated pursuant to this article has occurred and immediate enforcement is deeme…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-118 Civil penalties
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(1) A person who violates any provision of this article or any rule adopted pursuant to this article is subject to a civil penalty as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or by the commission or the commission's designee. The penalty shall not exceed one thousand dolla…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-119 Criminal penalties
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(1) Except as set forth in subsection (2) of this section, any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation, and any officer or agent thereof, who violates any of the provisions of this article 50 or any lawful order or rule of the commissioner commits a class 2 misdeme…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-120 Information sharing and analysis
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(1) Except as set forth in subsection (2) of this section, information obtained and maintained by the commissioner pursuant to this article and rules promulgated pursuant to this article and the results of surveillance and investigations may, in the discretion of the commissioner…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-121 Rights of secured parties
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Each secured party, whose security interest in the subject livestock appears in the list of effective filings as maintained by the central filing officer pursuant to the Central Filing of Effective Financing Statement Act, article 9.5 of title 4, C.R.S., prior to the commissioner…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 35-50-122 Saving clause
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Nothing in this article diminishes or supersedes the concurrent jurisdiction or the authorities of the parks and wildlife commission or the agriculture commission to regulate captive wildlife and alternative livestock. Source: L. 2005: Entire article R&RE, p. 461, � 1, effective …