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Indiana Code › Title 15 › Article 17 › Chapter 12 › Section 15-17-12-1

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Sec. 1. (a) A person may not use, offer for sale or exchange, or distribute any substance for the prevention or treatment of a contagious or infectious disease that:

(1) contains living germs in a virulent or attenuated state; and

(2) may at any time cause an outbreak of a contagious or infectious disease;

unless the person has submitted a notice to the state veterinarian describing the substance. The state veterinarian may require that a sample of the substance be submitted to the state veterinarian for examination.

(b) The state veterinarian may forbid the use of a substance that in the state veterinarian's judgment:

(1) jeopardizes the health of domestic animals; or

(2) causes the masking of a diagnosis of a contagious or infectious disease.

[Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-18-5.]

As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

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