Sec. 161.061. ESTABLISHMENT. (a) If the commission determines or is informed that a disease listed in Section 161.041 of this code exists in another state, territory, or country, the commission shall establish a quarantine against all or the portion of the state, territory, or country in which the disease exists.

(b) If the commission determines that a disease listed in Section 161.041 of this code or an agency of transmission of one of those diseases exists in a place in this state or among livestock, exotic livestock, domestic animals, domestic fowl, or exotic fowl, or that a place in this state or livestock, exotic livestock, domestic animals, domestic fowl, or exotic fowl are exposed to one of those diseases or an agency of transmission of one of those diseases, the commission shall establish a quarantine on the affected animals or on the affected place. The quarantine of an affected place may extend to any affected area, including a county, district, pasture, lot, ranch, farm, field, range, thoroughfare, building, stable, or stockyard pen.

(c) The commission may establish a quarantine to prohibit or regulate the movement of:

(1) any article or animal that the commission designates to be a carrier of a disease listed in Section 161.041 of this code or a potential carrier of one of those diseases, if movement is not otherwise regulated or prohibited; and

(2) an animal into an affected area, including a county district, pasture, lot, ranch, farm, field, range, thoroughfare, building, stable, or stockyard pen.

Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1397, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 31, Sec. 2, eff. April 27, 1995; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 554, Sec. 19, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.