Statutes > Iowa Statutes > Title 5 - Agriculture > Subtitle 2 - Animal Industry > CHAPTER 165B - CONTROL OF PATHOGENIC VIRUSES IN POULTRY > 165B.4 - INFECTED AND EXPOSED POULTRY -- CIVIL PENALTY -- INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.

165B.4 - INFECTED AND EXPOSED POULTRY -- CIVIL PENALTY -- INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.

        165B.4  INFECTED AND EXPOSED POULTRY -- CIVIL PENALTY
      -- INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.
         1.  A person who is the owner or custodian of poultry infected
      with or exposed to a pathogenic virus shall keep the poultry separate
      and apart, and shall dispose of infected or exposed poultry in
      accordance with requirements of the department.  The person shall
      ensure the premises where such poultry are kept are sanitized as
      required by the department.  The person shall dispose of the poultry
      carcasses, eggs, or manure as provided by the department.
         2.  A person who violates this section is subject to a civil
      penalty of at least one hundred dollars but not more than one
      thousand dollars, as determined by the department.  In the case of a
      continuing violation, each day of the continuing violation is a
      separate violation.  However, a person shall not be subject to a
      civil penalty totaling more than twenty-five thousand dollars.
         3.  The department may seek injunctive relief as provided in
      section 163.62.
         Section History: Recent Form
         2004 Acts, ch 1089, §5