SUMMARY: Certain requirements must be enforced to insure only healthy birds are permitted entry into the State. Supervision of vehicles and containers must be maintained and strict records kept to prevent the introduction of disease herewith listed below.

1. Poultry for Immediate Slaughter

A. Permit and certificate of veterinary inspection are required. Inspection shall be made by an accredited veterinarian and certificate shall accompany request for permit. Inspection shall be made not over two days before request for permit. Certificate shall contain the following information:

1. Names and addresses of consignor, consignee and trucker

2. Date of inspection

3. Number of birds

4. Description of birds

5. Names and addresses of owners of farm or farms where birds were at time of inspection.

6. Certificate shall state that said birds are not affected with any disease reportable in the State of Maine, and that no reportable disease is known to be present in the area where birds are inspected.

7. The names of diseases reportable in the State of Maine follow:

Avian encephalomyelitis

Duck virus enteritis (duck plague)

Equine encephalitis

Erysipelothrix infection

Fowl cholera

Fowl plague (fowl pest)

Fowl pox

Infectious laryngotracheitis

Listeriosis

Newcastle disease

Ornithosis

Salmonellosis (including pullorum disease and fowl typhoid)

Tuberculosis

2. Containers

Poultry boxes, crates and containers shall be new, or disinfected, before being used to move poultry hatching eggs or poultry for breeding or production purposes into the State of Maine, except poultry of the same and known health status as the previous shipment.

3. Records

Livestock and poultry dealers shall keep records of poultry transactions containing type of poultry, firm where purchases, to whom sold, and dates of sale and purchase. Such records shall be available to the said Division of Animal Industry.

4. Zoo Animals and Birds

No animal or bird that has been in any zoo or menagerie shall be removed to any premises in the State of Maine where any domestic animals or poultry are kept. (Zoos are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife).

STATUTORY AUTHORITY 7 MRSA §1752

EFFECTIVE DATE:

February 8, 1968

October 16, 1978

RE-ADOPTED:

August 28, 1979

EFFECTIVE DATE (ELECTRONIC CONVERSION):

May 4, 1996

CONVERTED TO MS WORD:

May 14, 2008

CORRECTIONS:

February, 2014 – agency names, formatting