(a) Each flockowner or dealer of poultry indicating a positive test result in tests conducted by a testing agent shall submit such birds from the flock to a recognized laboratory for confirmation. If laboratory examination fails to reveal Salmonella pullorum or Salmonella gallinarum organisms, the flock shall be considered negative. If a flockowner or dealer of poultry refuses to pen and/or present poultry for field testing by a testing agent, or if a field test indicates a positive result and a flockowner or dealer of poultry fails to submit such poultry to a recognized laboratory for confirmation, or if a flockowner or dealer offers for sale poultry lacking a pullorum-typhoid status equivalent to that specified by the National Poultry Improvement Plan of the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, TVMDL may designate the entire flock an infected flock.
(b) The number of poultry to be submitted for laboratory confirmation of serologic tests shall be all reactor birds up to five or as otherwise determined by TVMDL or its representative.
(c) The TVMDL may order any flockowner or dealer who has refused to pen or present poultry for field testing by a testing agent, or who has offered for sale poultry lacking a pullorum-typhoid status equivalent to that specified by the National Poultry Improvement Plan of the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or who fails to submit to a recognized laboratory for confirmation poultry which has indicated a positive test result in a field test, to refrain from selling, trading, or moving his flock or hatching eggs without receiving prior written permission from the Texas Animal Health Commission or TVMDL. Such order shall remain in effect until the flock has been determined by field or laboratory examination to be free of Salmonella pullorum or Salmonella gallinarum organisms, or in cases where such organisms are present, until the Texas Animal Health Commission has imposed a quarantine or otherwise acted to restrict the movement of birds or eggs to prevent the further spread of the infection.

Source Note: The provisions of this §162.4 adopted to be effective November 16, 1993, 18 TexReg 7922.