RS 3:1962 Filing certificate of soundness; diseases which will bar enrollment

§1962.  Filing certificate of soundness; diseases which will bar enrollment

A.  In order to obtain the enrollment certificate, the owner of each stallion or jack shall file a certificate of soundness, signed by a duly qualified veterinarian, who shall be a graduate of a recognized veterinary college, stating that the stallion or jack is free from hereditary, contagious, or transmissible disease, or unsoundness, and shall forward this veterinarian's certificate, together with the stud-book certificate of registry of the pedigree of the stallion or jack, and other necessary papers relating to his breeding and ownership, to the Louisiana Board of Animal Health.

B.  The presence of any of the following named diseases or conditions may disqualify a stallion or jack for public service:

(1)  Cataract.

(2)  Amaurosis.

(3)  Recurrent Ophthalmia (moon blindness).

(4)  Laryngeal Hemiplegia (roaring or whistling).

(5)  Pulmonary Emphysema (heaves or broken wind).

(6)  Chorea or St. Vitus' Dance (shivering).

(7)  String Halt.

(8)  Bone Spavin.

(9)  Ring Bone.

(10)  Side Bone.

(11)  Navicular Disease.

(12)  Bog Spavin.

(13)  Curb, with curby formation of hock joint.

(14)  Glanders.

(15)  Maladie due Coit.

(16)  Urethral Gleet.

(17)  Mange.

(18)  Melanosis.

C.  The Louisiana Board of Animal Health may refuse its certificate of enrollment to any stallion or jack affected with any one of the diseases or conditions hereby specified, and to revoke the previously issued enrollment certificate or license of any stallion or jack found on investigation by the board to be so affected.

Acts 2008, No. 920, §1, eff. July 14, 2008.