1. This section shall apply to all swine moved interstate and intrastate, except swine moved directly to slaughter or to a livestock market for sale directly to a slaughtering establishment for immediate slaughter.
2. When used in this chapter:
a. "Dealer" means any person who is engaged in the business of buying for resale, or selling, or exchanging swine as a principal or agent or who claims to be so engaged, but does not include the owner or operator of a farm who does not claim to be so engaged, and who sells or exchanges only those swine which have been kept by the person solely for feeding or breeding purposes.
b. "Move" or "movement" means to ship, transport, or deliver swine by land, water, or air, except that "move" or "movement" does not mean a relocation.
c. "Relocate" or "relocation" means to ship, transport, or deliver swine by land, water, or air, to different premises, if the ownership of the swine does not change, the prior and new premises are located within the state, and the shipment, transportation, or delivery between the prior and new premises occurs within the state.
d. "Separate and apart" means a manner of holding swine so as not to have physical contact with other swine on the premises.
3. No person shall act as a dealer without first securing a dealer's license from the department. The fee for a dealer's license shall be five dollars per annum and all licenses shall expire on the first day of July following date of issue. Licenses shall be numbered and the dealer shall retain the number from year to year. To secure a license, the applicant must file with the department a bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars with the secretary named as trustee, for the use and benefit of anyone damaged by a violation of this section, except that the bond shall not be required for dealers who are bonded in the same or a greater amount than required pursuant to the federal Packers and Stockyards Act.
Each employee or agent doing business by buying for resale, selling or exchanging feeder swine in the name of a licensed dealer, shall be required to secure a permit and identification card issued by the department showing the person is employed by or represents a licensed dealer. All such permits and identification cards shall be issued upon application forms furnished by the department at a cost of three dollars per annum, and shall expire on the first day of July following the date of issue.
A permittee shall not represent more than one dealer. Failure of a licensee or permittee to comply with this chapter or a rule made pursuant to this chapter is cause for revocation by the secretary of the permit or license after notice to the alleged offender and the holding of a hearing by the secretary. Rules shall be made in accordance with chapter 17A. A rule, the violation of which is made the basis for revocation, except temporary emergency rules, shall first have been approved after public hearing as provided in section 17A.4 after giving twenty days' notice of the hearing as follows:
By mailing notice, by ordinary mail, to every person filing a request for notice accompanied by an addressed envelope with prepaid postage. Any person may file such a request to be listed with any agency for notice for the time and place for all hearings on proposed rules, which request shall be accompanied by a remittance of five dollars. Such fee shall be added to the operating fund of the department. The listing shall expire semiannually on January 1 and July 1.
4. All swine moved shall be individually identified with a distinctive and easily discernible ear tag affixed in either ear of the animal or other identification acceptable to the department, which has been specified by rule promulgated under the department's rulemaking authority. The department shall make ear tags available at convenient locations within each county and shall sell such tags at a price not exceeding the cost to producers and others to comply with this section.
Every seller, dealer and market operator shall keep a record of the ear tag numbers, or other approved identification, and the farm of origin of swine moved by or through that person, which records shall be made available by that person to any appropriate representative of the department or the United States department of agriculture.
5. All swine moved shall be accompanied by an official health certificate or veterinarian inspection certificate issued by the state of origin and prepared and signed by a veterinarian. The health certificate or veterinarian inspection certificate shall show the point of origin, the point of destination, individual identification, immunization status, and, when required, any movement permit number assigned to the shipment by the department. All such movement of swine shall be completed within seventy-two hours unless an extension of time for movement is granted by the department.
However, swine may be moved intrastate directly to an approved state, federal or auction market without such identification or certification, there to be identified and certificated.
However, registered swine for exhibition or breeding purposes which can be individually identified by an ear notch or tattoo or other method approved by the department are excepted from this identification requirement. In addition, native Iowa swine moved from farm to farm shall be excepted from the identification requirement 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 shall not be commingled with other swine for a period of thirty days. The owner transferring possession shall be responsible for making certain that the agreement is executed and for providing a copy of the agreement to the person taking possession.
The department may combine an official health certificate or a veterinarian inspection certificate with a certificate of inspection required under chapter 166D.
6. The department may require issuance of movement permits on certain categories of swine moved, prior to their movement, pursuant to departmental rule. The rule shall be promulgated when in the judgment of the secretary, such movements would otherwise threaten or imperil the eradication of hog cholera in Iowa.
7. All swine moved shall be quarantined separate and apart from other swine located at the Iowa farm of destination for thirty days beginning with their arrival at such premises, or if such incoming swine are not held separate and apart, all swine on such premises shall be thus quarantined, except animals moving from such premises directly to slaughter.
There can only be one transfer by a dealer, involving not more than two markets, prior to quarantine.
8. The use of anti-hog-cholera serum or antibody concentrate shall be in accordance with rules issued by the department.
9. All swine found by a registered veterinarian to have any infectious, contagious, or communicable swine disease after delivery to any livestock sale barn or auction market for resale other than for slaughter, shall be immediately returned to the consignor's premises to be quarantined separate and apart for fifteen days. Such swine may not be moved from such premises for any purpose unless an official health certificate or veterinarian inspection certificate accompanies the movement or unless they are sent to slaughter. This subsection shall in no way supersede the requirements of sections 163A.2 and 163A.3.
[C62, 66, § 163.30; C71, § 163.30-163.33; C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 163.30]
87 Acts, ch 115, § 28; 91 Acts, ch 32, §2; 97 Acts, ch 183, § 1, 13; 98 Acts, ch 1056, §2
Referred to in § 163.31, 166D.2, 166D.10
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