Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 9 - ANIMAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Article 10 - PUBLIC LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Section 9-10-15 - Quarantine of diseased and exposed animals

When livestock, including poultry, is offered for sale, and the veterinary inspector finds evidence of such animals being infected with any contagious or infectious disease, by temperature or other clinical symptoms, or finds same evidence of such animals being exposed to any such disease, the veterinary inspector shall place the entire consignment of such livestock under quarantine, and shall promptly notify the public livestock market operator, of his action. The public livestock market shall then notify the consignor of such livestock of the infected or exposed animals, which have been placed under such quarantine.

When the veterinary inspector is satisfied that such consignor is prepared to, and is agreeable to holding such animals under quarantine on his own premises, he may permit same to be moved to said premises. When the veterinary inspector is not satisfied that such consignor can comply with the requirements of the quarantine, then the infected or exposed animals shall be placed in quarantine pens provided by the public livestock market operator. If a veterinary inspector finds that livestock consigned to his public livestock market, originated outside the state of Kansas and had not entered the state in line with Kansas requirements, he shall hold such livestock under quarantine in the quarantine pens provided by the public livestock market operator. It shall be the duty of the public livestock market operator to feed, water, and shelter all animals placed under official quarantine on his public livestock market premises.

After the veterinary inspector has diagnosed the disease, with which the animals, including poultry, are infected, or to which they have been exposed, he shall prescribe and administer the necessary medicine, vaccine or serum, and shall submit a statement of the cost of such service, together with the cost of feed, water and care, and such amount shall be charged to the owner or consignor. When livestock is rejected for sale purposes, as provided in this regulation, the veterinary inspector shall issue an official quarantine notice to the consignor covering all livestock in the consignment. The quarantine notice shall be made in triplicate, and the original shall be given to the consignor, the first copy shall be forwarded to the livestock sanitary commissioner at Topeka, Kansas, and the second copy shall be retained by the veterinary inspector. Said quarantine shall be effective for twenty-one days, or until released by the livestock sanitary commissioner, or his authorized representative.