Article 5. Brucellosis Control Areas of California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 5. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 5.

The department may, after hearing, establish and maintain brucellosis control areas within this state.

The department shall examine and test such cattle for brucellosis in any brucellosis control area as the director may specify, as often as may be deemed necessary to qualify and maintain such area within the standards of certification which are adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture.

All owners of cattle which are subject to examination and testing for brucellosis within a brucellosis control area shall, upon request of the department, provide the necessary facilities for collecting such samples of blood or milk as may be deemed necessary to conduct tests for brucellosis, and shall render such assistance as may be required.

If any owner or person that is in charge of cattle, after 10 days' written notice by the department, refuses properly to confine in corrals, stanchions, or chutes, any cattle within a brucellosis control area which are required to be tested and identified pursuant to this chapter, the owner is guilty of a misdemeanor and the department may in such case incur such expense as is necessary to properly confine and identify the cattle.

Any expense which is incurred by the department pursuant to Section 10384 is a lien upon the cattle which are tested and identified. Unless the amount of the lien is paid within 10 days after written notice of the amount of the lien has been given by the department to the owner or person that is in possession of the cattle, the lien shall be enforced pursuant to Section 3052 of the Civil Code.

The director shall, by regulation, designate the conditions under which cattle may be moved into a brucellosis control area.

It is unlawful for any person to refuse to submit any cattle which are required to be tested pursuant to this chapter, for the collection of milk or blood samples, or to refuse to submit any milk samples which are necessary for the testing of cattle for brucellosis pursuant to this chapter.