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(510 ILCS 30/5) (from Ch. 8, par. 138)
Sec. 5. When one or more animals in a herd have been classified as reactors
to an official test, the entire herd, except steers, spayed heifers and
calves under 6 months of age, shall be quarantined immediately and the
owner so notified. An accredited veterinarian or a veterinarian in the
employ of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the United
States Department of Agriculture, or any successor agency, shall permanently
hot iron brand each animal classified
as a reactor, within 15 days after classification of such animal as a reactor,
on the left hip
with the letter "B", such letter to be not less than 2 nor more than 3
inches in height, and shall place a special identification tag in the left
ear of such reactor. The veterinarian applying an official test for
brucellosis shall immediately notify the Department of each such reactor on
forms furnished by the Department, giving the number of the tag placed in
the left ear and the number of any tag in the right ear. Reactors shall be
shipped for slaughter within 30 days of test date, except
that the Department may, upon request, grant an extension of not more than
30 days. Suspect animals which have a history of having aborted and are
from a herd containing reactors may be designated as reactors by the
veterinarian obtaining the blood samples, when approved by the
Department.
Suspect animals in herds under quarantine due to brucellosis infection may
be designated as reactors by the Department if deemed advisable in the interest of
brucellosis eradication. No person shall remove any reactor identification
tag.
All animals classified as suspects to an official test shall be
positively identified and their movement restricted to the premises where
found until they are retested and found negative, or identified as
reactors.
Animals with a positive result to an official test at livestock auction markets or marketing centers may be slaughtered or returned to the herd of origin only by permit and must remain under quarantine for further evaluation.
(Source: P.A. 97-25, eff. 6-28-11.)
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