Code of Maine Rules
01 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY
001 - AGRICULTURE - GENERAL
Chapter 206 - PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF CERTAIN DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND POULTRY
Section 001-206-5 - DISEASE CONTROL FOR ANIMALS AND BIRDS WITHIN THE STATE

Universal Citation: 01 ME Code Rules ยง 001-206-5

Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024

A. GENERAL

1. Any domestic animal and/or poultry condemned by the commissioner shall be slaughtered and disposed of as the commissioner shall direct.

2. The commissioner may enter any premises and/or auction, suspected of having any contagious or infectious disease, conduct an investigation, and take any sample necessary to diagnose and/or control any contagious or infectious disease, or any alleged incidence of inappropriate animal husbandry practices.

3. No animal or bird that has been in any zoo or menagerie shall be permitted in any premises in the state where any domestic animals or poultry are kept without meeting importation requirements for that species.

B. REPORTABLE DISEASES

1. The commissioner shall have the authority to quarantine any animals with a reportable disease and any animals having contact with the animals having a reportable disease for the time necessary to control the disease. The following diseases are to be reported to the commissioner either immediately (within 24 hours by phone or using the on-line disease report form on the Department's website) or monthly, as follows:
a. Bovine
1) Immediate reporting
a) Bluetongue

b) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

c) Brucellosis

d) Malignant Catarrhal Fever

e) Tuberculosis

f) Any Vesicular Disease

g) Any unexplained increase in dead or diseased animals.

h) Toxic Substance Exposure that may threaten animal health, human health or food safety

i) All exotic or eradicated diseases

2) Monthly Reporting
a) Anaplasmosis

b) Johne's Disease

Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis

c) Trichomoniasis

b. Equine
1) Immediate reporting
a) Contagious Equine Metritis

Taylorella equigenitalis

b) Eastern/Western Equine Encephalitis

EEE/WEE

c) Equine Herpes Myeloencephalopathy

Equine herpes virus-1

d) Equine infectious anemia

e) Equine Piroplasmosis

f) Equine Viral Arteritis

g) Vesicular stomatitis

h) West Nile Virus

i) Toxic Substance Exposure that may threaten animal health, human health or food safety

j) Any unexplained increase in dead or diseased animals

k) All exotic or eradicated diseases

2) Monthly Reporting
a) Equine Protozoal Myleoencephalitis

Sarcocyctis neruona

b) Potomac Horse Fever

c) Strangles

Streptococcus equi

c. Porcine
1) Immediate reporting
a) Brucellosis

b) Pseudorabies

c) Swine Influenza

d) Trichinellosis

Trichinella spiralis

e) Tuberculosis

f) Any Vesicular Disease

g) Toxic Substance Exposure that may threaten animal health, human health or food safety

h) Any unexplained increase in dead or diseased animals

i) All exotic or eradicated diseases

2) Monthly Reporting
a) Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome PRRS

d. Caprine / Ovine
1) Immediate reporting
a) Bluetongue

b) Brucellosis

c) Contagious ecthyma (Orf)

d) Scrapie

e) Tuberculosis

f) Any Vesicular Disease

g) Toxic Substance Exposure that may threaten animal health, human health or food safety

h) Any unexplained increase in dead or diseased animals

i) All exotic or eradicated diseases

2) Monthly Reporting
a) Johne's disease

Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis

b) Toxoplasmosis

e. Poultry
1) Immediate reporting
a) Avian Chlamydiosis

Chlamydia psittaci

b) Avian Influenza

c) Avian Pox

d) Exotic Newcastle Disease

e) Pullorum Disease/ Fowl Typhoid

Salmonella pullorum/gallinarum

f) Salmonella enteritidis

g) Toxic Substance Exposure that may threaten animal health human health or food safety

h) Any unexplained increase in dead or diseased animals

i) All exotic or eradicated diseases

2) Monthly Reporting
a) Duck Plague (duck viral enteritis)

b) Erysipelas

Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae

c) Fowl Cholera

Pasteurella multocida

d) Infectious Coryza

e) Infectious laryngotracheitis

f) Mycoplasma gallisepticum/synoviae-MG/MS

g) Other Salmonellosis

f. Multiple Species
1) Immediate reporting
a) Anthrax

b) Chronic Wasting Disease

c) H1N1 Influenza in any species

d) Leptospirosis

e) Plague

Yersinia pestis

f) Q Fever

Coxiella burnetti

g) Rabies

h) Tularemia

Francisella tularensis

i) Toxic Substance Exposure that may threaten animal health, human health or food safety

j) Any unexplained increase in dead or diseased animals

k) All exotic or eradicated diseases

2) Monthly Reporting
a) Canine influenza

b) Salmonellosis

C. HEALTH REQUIREMENTS FOR DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND POULTRY AT FAIRS, LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS

1. Domestic animals and poultry showing signs of external or internal parasites and/or contagious diseases, and other domestic animals and poultry having been in contact with these animals may be ordered removed and may be quarantined at the discretion of the commissioner.

2. Domestic animals and poultry shall not be permitted on fairgrounds, livestock and poultry shows and exhibitions if they originate from a herd or flock under quarantine.

3. All poultry for exhibition must originate from flocks that have an official Pullorum-typhoid clean rating.

4. Animals originating from states other than Maine must conform to the general requirements for importation and import requirements specific to exhibition animals as referenced in section E. Importation of Poultry, Hatching Eggs of Poultry, and Poultry for Exhibition and L. Importation of Domestic Animals and Poultry for Exhibition.

D. MARKET CATTLE / MARKET SWINE TESTING PROGRAM

1. All market cattle and market swine shall be identified by back tag, or as the commissioner may direct, to enable a trace back to the previous owner.

2. Slaughter establishments handling market cattle and market swine shall, at the time of killing, collect one (1) tube of blood from all market cattle and market swine.

3. Samples shall be identified by back tag, and ear tag if available to enable a trace back to the herd of origin. Samples shall be sent to the Department of Agriculture's State and Federal Diagnostic Laboratory within 7 days of slaughter.

E. THE SALE OF DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY

1. The seller of domestic animals or poultry must identify any animal intended for slaughter when domestic animals or poultry are sold to a licensed livestock dealer or livestock commission or community auction.

F. HEALTH OF POULTRY

1. All hatcheries and hatchery supply flocks shall qualify as National Poultry Improvement Plan pullorum- typhoid clean or meet equivalent requirements for pullorum-typhoid control under official supervision.

2. All hatcheries and hatchery supply flocks shall be U.S. sanitation monitored.

3. All hatchery supply flocks shall test negative for mycoplasma gallisepticum and myoplasma synoviae in accordance with the N.P.I.P. program

G. HEALTH OF HORSES, PONIES, MULES AND OTHER EQUIDAE

All horses, ponies, mules and other equidae shall have a negative test for equine infectious anemia within 36 months prior to initially entering a boarding/breeding facility. All horses, ponies, mules and other equidae stabled at that boarding/breeding facility shall have a negative test for equine infectious anemia conducted not more than 36 months from the previous test date. Records must be made available to the commissioner, upon request, stating the last date of test for each horse.

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