(a) Each owner of bovine animals may have all of his female calves vaccinated for the control of brucellosis at ages the commissioner shall establish by regulation pursuant to the uniform methods and rules for brucellosis eradication of the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Calves may be vaccinated at the owner's expense by an approved licensed veterinarian, an approved federal or state full-time employed veterinarian assigned directly and authorized by the Commissioner of Agriculture or by a livestock inspector employed and authorized by the commissioner.

(b) The state shall not be liable for any damages incurred or alleged to have been incurred by the use of any vaccine.

(c) No person, firm or corporation, and no agent or employee of any corporation, shall have in his possession any brucellosis vaccine or any product containing any Brucella organisms unless written permission has been obtained from the commissioner.

(d) No female bovine animal over the maximum vaccination age, as established by the commissioner in accordance with the uniform methods and rules for brucellosis eradication of the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, shall be vaccinated with Brucella Abortus vaccine. Brucellosis vaccine or any product containing any Brucella organisms shall not be shipped into the state except upon written permission of the commissioner.

(1949 Rev., S. 3329; 1949, 1953, S. 1354c; 1955, S. 1790d; 1957, P.A. 36, S. 4; March, 1958, P.A. 2, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 477, S. 6; 637, S. 2; 1961, P.A. 67; 1963, P.A. 391, S. 3; February, 1965, P.A. 35, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 109; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 446, 448; P.A. 79-203, S. 1; P.A. 80-86, S. 1; P.A. 81-180, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-10, S. 12, 20; P.A. 95-14, S. 1; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(e); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)

History: 1959 acts replaced commissioner of agriculture with commissioner of agriculture, conservation and natural resources and required heifers to be vaccinated between ages of 4 and 8 months rather than between 6 and 8 months and changed age at which nonvaccinated heifers quarantined from 8 to 9 months; 1961 act replaced commissioner of agriculture, conservation and natural resources with commissioner of agriculture and natural resources; 1963 act substituted “female bovine animal over two hundred seventy days old” for “mature cattle” in Subsec. (d); 1965 act required vaccination of heifers “between the ages of four through eight months”, substituting “through” for “and”, deleted reference to heifers “born after April 3, 1957,” added proviso allowing sale of unvaccinated or vaccinated when overage female bovines on intrastate basis, prohibited payment of indemnity on unvaccinated or overage vaccinated animal and in Subsec. (d) referred to animals over 8 months old rather than over 270 days old; 1969 act reduced age for vaccination of heifers from 4 through 8 months to 3 through 7 months and reduced other age references by one month accordingly; 1971 act replaced commissioner of agriculture and natural resources with commissioner of agriculture; P.A. 79-203 permitted livestock inspectors to vaccinate calves; P.A. 80-86 reduced vaccination age to 2 through 6 months and reduced other age references accordingly; P.A. 81-180 changed the age at which livestock required to be vaccinated from specified age to one determined by the commissioner pursuant to federal law and replaced reference to “standard tube agglutination test” with reference to any required test; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-10 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that calves shall be vaccinated pursuant to this section at the owner’s, rather than the state's expense; P.A. 95-14 amended Subsec. (a) to make vaccination of cattle by owner optional and to delete provisions re quarantine of unvaccinated heifers; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Agriculture with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.