1. A person shall not sell, lease, exhibit, loan, move, or relocate swine within the state unless the swine are accompanied by a certificate of inspection in the same manner as provided for an official health certificate or veterinarian certificate as provided in section 163.30. The department may combine the certificate of inspection with an official health certificate or a veterinarian inspection certificate. A certificate of inspection is not required if any of the following apply:
a. The swine are moved to slaughter.
b. The swine are relocated, if all of the following apply:
(1) A transportation certificate accompanies the relocated swine.
(2) The swine's owner maintains information regarding the relocation in relocation records. The department may adopt rules excusing a person from maintaining relocation records, if the department determines that the purposes of the chapter as provided in section 166D.1 are not furthered by the requirement.
(3) A certificate of inspection, or an official health certificate or a veterinarian inspection certificate as provided in section 163.30, has been issued for the swine within thirty days prior to the date of relocation. The department may adopt rules excusing a person from complying with this subparagraph if the department determines that the purposes of the chapter as provided in section 166D.1 are not furthered by the requirement.
The department shall adopt rules required to administer this paragraph. A transportation certificate accompanying relocated swine shall cite the relevant relocation record and certificate of inspection, or official health certificate or veterinarian inspection certificate. The department may provide for the examination of the relocation records on the owner's premises during normal business hours, or may require that reports containing relevant information contained in relocation records and certificates of inspection, or official health certificates or veterinarian inspection certificates, be periodically submitted to the department. For purposes of this section, swine production information contained in relocation records is a trade secret as provided in section 22.7, unless otherwise provided by rules adopted by the department. The department shall provide for the disclosure of confidential information only to the extent required for enforcement of this chapter, the detection and prosecution of public offenses, or to comply with a subpoena or court order.
c. A person transferring ownership of all or part of a herd, if the herd remains on the same premises. However, the herd must be tested by statistical sampling. If any part of the herd is subsequently moved or relocated, the swine that are moved or relocated must be accompanied by a certificate of inspection, or an official health certificate or veterinarian certificate as provided in section 163.30, unless the swine are moved to slaughter.
2. Swine that are moved shall be individually identified as provided in section 163.30, which may include requirements for affixing ear tags to swine. However, native Iowa feeder pigs moved from farm to farm within the state shall not be subject to the identification requirements of this subsection, if the owner transferring possession of the feeder pigs executes a written agreement with the person taking possession of the feeder pigs. The agreement shall provide that the feeder pigs will not be commingled with other swine for a period of thirty days. The owner transferring possession shall provide a copy of the agreement to the person taking possession of the feeder pigs.
As used in this subsection, "farm to farm within the state" does not include the movement or relocation of native Iowa feeder pigs to the possession of a dealer licensed pursuant to section 163.30. Native Iowa feeder pigs that are moved shall be accompanied by a certificate of inspection, or an official health certificate or veterinarian certificate as provided in section 163.30, unless swine are otherwise exempted from this requirement by this section.
3. Swine moved into or within Iowa for breeding purposes must originate from a herd not under quarantine which is one of the following:
a. A herd classified as a qualified negative herd.
b. A controlled vaccinated herd which complies with the provisions of section 166D.7, subsection 2.
c. Swine which have individually reacted negatively to testing within the past thirty days.
d. A qualified differentiable negative herd.
4. Imported feeder pigs shall originate from noninfected herds. An imported feeder pig shall be subject to restricted movement, unless the pig reacted negatively to a test within the past thirty days.
5. A feeder pig moved intrastate shall be moved according to the following:
a. A feeder pig in a noninfected herd shall not be subject to restricted movement.
b. A feeder pig in a herd of unknown pseudorabies status shall be subject to restricted movement.
c. A feeder pig in a known infected herd shall be subject to restricted movement by certificate of inspection and only to an approved premises.
6. In addition to other applicable requirements of this section, feeder swine moved from a location outside of this state to a location within this state shall be vaccinated, if the feeder swine are moved into a county where the department determines that more than three percent of all herds in the county are infected herds. The feeder swine shall be vaccinated with a differentiable vaccine according to procedures established by rules adopted by the department. However, this subsection shall not require vaccination if the feeder swine originate from a qualified negative herd or a qualified differentiable negative herd.
89 Acts, ch 280, §10; 90 Acts, ch 1091, § 6; 90 Acts, ch 1168, § 30; 96 Acts, ch 1214, § 30; 97 Acts, ch 183, § 9--;11
Referred to in § 166D.2
1997 amendments to subsection 1 are effective October 1, 1997; 1997 amendment to subsection 6 is effective January 1, 1998; rules; 97 Acts, ch 183, § 12, 13
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