Illinois Administrative Code
Title 8 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Part 75 - BOVINE BRUCELLOSIS
Section 75.50 - Indemnity
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) If State funds are available, indemnity will be paid to owners of dairy and breeding cattle which react to the official test for the detection of bovine brucellosis and are destroyed provided:
b) Indemnity will not be paid for reactors disclosed on tests for release of feeder quarantine in accordance with Section 6.3 of the Act or where incomplete herd tests are conducted.
c) When State funds are available for paying indemnity, the Department shall pay to the owner an indemnity at the rate specified in Section 4 of the Act for each female calf destroyed which was nursing a cow classified as a brucellosis reactor.
d) Depopulation - When a herd is found to be severely infected as evidenced by disclosure of one or more reactors on 2 or more herd tests, or by more than 10% of the herd being disclosed as reactors on a single herd test, or through bacteriological culture of Brucella abortus from milk or tissue samples from a reactor, the entire herd shall be depopulated; provided, the herd owner agrees to such depopulation and State and/or federal indemnity funds are available to pay for the depopulation.