SECTION 35:15-15-39. Quarantines

(a)   Any Equidae testing positive to an official test shall be quarantined to the premise of origin or other approved premise until natural death, disposition by euthanasia or slaughter, or movement to a quarantined holding facility.

(b)   The quarantine shall include the positive Equidae, all other Equidae on the premise, and all Equidae epidemiologically determined to have been exposed to an EIA positive animal.

(c)   The owner shall maintain isolation of all Equidae on an affected premise a minimum of two hundred (200) yards from all other negative Equidae and Equidae of unknown status on adjacent premises.

(d)   In addition to a quarantine, the owner may enter into a herd plan for an affected herd.

(e)   The owner of an adjacent or exposed herd may enter into a herd plan in addition to a quarantine or in lieu of a quarantine, pursuant to an agreement with the State Veterinarian.

(f)   The issuance of a quarantine may be waived if the Board or the State Veterinarian enters into a formal memorandum of understanding with the owner that controls the movement of animals and the disease condition.

(g)   Release of quarantine.

(1)   No Equidae held under quarantine shall be moved or released until a written permit or quarantine release signed by an authorized agent has been executed.

(2)   The EIA quarantine may be released by an authorized agent after all quarantined Equidae in the affected herd test negative to an official test conducted at the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry no less than sixty (60) days nor more than one hundred twenty (120) days following the identification and removal of the last EIA positive animal.

(3)   Epidemiologic data may be considered in the release of the quarantine.

[Source: Added at 12 Ok Reg 3388, eff 7-1-95 (emergency); Added at 13 Ok Reg 1847, eff 6-14-96; Amended at 17 Ok Reg 2821, eff 7-13-00; Amended at 19 Ok Reg 1927, eff 6-27-02; Amended at 27 Ok Reg 1105, eff 7-1-10]