Section 9562 Of Article 3. Establishment Of Quarantine From California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 5. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 3.
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. (a) Subject to the rights and procedures established pursuant
to Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Division 3 of
Title 2 of the Government Code, and in accordance with regulations
adopted pursuant to this code, the State Veterinarian shall impose a
quarantine if he or she believes, upon any basis reasonably
supportable by standard epidemiological practice or credible
scientific research, that a population of domestic animals or food
product from animals has contracted, or may carry, an illness,
infection, pathogen, contagion, toxin, or condition that, without
intervention, could transmit an illness that could kill or seriously
damage other animals or humans, including, in addition to the
original condition, those clinically plausible secondary illnesses,
infections, pathogens, contagions, toxins, or conditions arising from
the effects of the original.
(b) (1) Because the authority conferred by this section is
designed to protect the health and safety of the citizens of this
state, the authority shall be interpreted broadly to give full effect
to the purpose of protecting the public health and safety and shall
be construed to include the imposition of quarantines in the
circumstances of natural disaster, whether occurring or imminent, or
declared emergencies.
(2) In furtherance of the objectives of the quarantine, the State
Veterinarian may impose restrictions not only on the affected animals
themselves and the uses to which those animals may be put, but on
products produced from, by, or with those animals in order to
minimize the risk or spread of food-borne illness.
(3) The State Veterinarian's quarantine powers set forth in this
section expressly include the power to order movement, segregation,
isolation, or destruction of animals or food products, as well as the
power to hold animals or food products in place.