(a) The commission shall protect all livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, and exotic fowl from the following diseases and agents of disease transmission:
(1) Anthrax;
(2) Avian infectious laryngotracheitis;
(3) Avian influenza;
(4) Babesiosis;
(5) Brucellosis;
(6) Chronic wasting disease;
(7) Classical swine fever;
(8) Equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHV1-EHM);
(9) Equine infectious anemia;
(10) Equine piroplasmosis;
(11) Foot-and-mouth disease;
(12) Fowl typhoid;
(13) Glanders;
(14) Hemorrhagic septicemia;
(15) Pullorum disease;
(16) Rabies;
(17) Scabies;
(18) Scrapie;
(19) Swine pseudorabies;
(20) Trichomoniasis;
(21) Tuberculosis; and
(22) Foreign or emerging diseases the Executive Director of the Texas Animal Health Commission determines by order requires control or eradication.
(b) The commission may act to eradicate or control any disease or agent of disease transmission that affects livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, or exotic fowl if the disease or agent of disease transmission is:
(1) recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture as a foreign animal disease or a reportable animal disease;
(2) the subject of a cooperative eradication program with the United States Department of Agriculture;
(3) reportable to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE);
(4) the subject of a state emergency, as declared by the Governor;
(5) any individual case report, outbreak, emerging disease, or unusual group expression of disease or agent of disease transmission, which affects livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, or exotic fowl other than bluetongue; or
(6) a disease or agent of disease transmission designated by the Texas Animal Health Commission in §45.3(c) of this section.
(c) The commission designates the following as reportable and actionable diseases and agents of disease transmission.
(1) Multiple species:
(2) Cattle:
(3) Cervidae:
(4) Sheep and goat:
(5) Equine:
(6) Swine:
(7) Poultry and avian:
(8) Rabbit:
(d) The Executive Director of the Texas Animal Health Commission is authorized to determine the necessary requirements related to quarantine, disposal, testing, movement, inspection, and treatment of diseases or agents of disease transmission in this chapter.
Source Note: The provisions of this §45.3 adopted to be effective October 21, 2021, 46 TexReg 7040; amended to be effective May 17, 2023, 48 TexReg 2480