Sec. 17.

(1) The director may enter into agreements with the secretary of agriculture, United States department of agriculture, the secretary's authorized representative, or any other person to further pseudorabies and brucellosis disease control and eradication.

(2) The department shall cooperate with the United States department of agriculture in the control and eradication of brucellosis and pseudorabies in all porcine species in this state and shall provide assistance to pseudorabies and brucellosis quarantined herds for the purposes of elimination of pseudorabies and brucellosis and the removal of quarantines.

(3) The department may participate in the market swine identification program as set forth in title 9 of the code of federal regulations and the uniform methods and rules for brucellosis eradication approved by veterinary services of the animal and plant health inspection service of the United States department of agriculture and all amendments thereafter adopted pursuant to rules promulgated by the director, or may test for pseudorabies or brucellosis in any samples of porcine blood or tissue collected at a United States department of agriculture or department approved slaughter facility, any livestock collection or market facility, or any sample of porcine blood or tissue submitted for diagnostic purposes to a United States department of agriculture officially approved laboratory. The slaughter facility, livestock collection or market facility, or laboratory shall provide adequate room, time, and safe conditions for the collection of blood or tissue samples.

History: 1992, Act 239, Eff. Mar. 31, 1993