[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR50.8]

[Page 145-146]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 50--ANIMALS DESTROYED BECAUSE OF TUBERCULOSIS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Indemnity
 
Sec. 50.8  Payment of expenses for transporting and disposing of infected, exposed, and suspect animals.

    The Department may pay, when approved in advance in writing by the 
Veterinarian in Charge, one half the expenses of transporting infected, 
exposed, or suspect livestock to slaughter or to the point where 
disposal will take

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place, and one half the expenses of destroying, burying, incinerating, 
rendering, or otherwise disposing of infected, exposed, or suspect 
livestock; Provided that, the Department may pay more than one-half of 
the expenses when the Administrator determines that doing so will 
contribute to the tuberculosis eradication program. For reimbursement to 
be made, the owner of the animals must present the Veterinarian in 
Charge with a copy of either a receipt for expenses paid or a bill for 
services rendered. Any bill for services rendered by the owner must not 
be greater than the normal fee for similar services provided by a 
commercial hauler or renderer.

[62 FR 49592, Sept. 23, 1997; as amended at 63 FR 34264, June 24, 1998; 
67 FR 7591, Feb. 20, 2002]