Loi du 29 juillet 1912 concernant la police sanitaire du bétail et l'amélioration des chevaux, des bêtes à cornes et des porcs.

AI-assisted research summary: This is the preamble of the law on sanitary policing of livestock and the improvement of horses, cattle, and pigs.

AI-assisted research summary: Public-administration regulations set measures to prevent or combat contagious or epizootic diseases in domestic animals, and an agricultural government member may decree temporary or urgent measures.

AI-assisted research summary: This article lists the animal diseases covered by sanitary police measures or slaughter, and lets public administration regulations add more diseases or remove diseases that no longer need those measures.

AI-assisted research summary: The State must compensate owners of slaughtered animals if it is later found the animal was not diseased; if autopsy shows the animal was diseased, the indemnity is two-thirds. The State also pays the costs of enforcing this law.

AI-assisted research summary: Des règlements d'administration publique fixeront les modalités d'évaluation et de réduction des indemnités, les modalités de réclamation, ainsi que les taxes liées à la visite sanitaire des animaux domestiques étrangers importés.

AI-assisted research summary: No indemnity is granted for slaughter in the listed disease and compliance cases, with a limited exception where the disease arose only after the animal entered the country.

AI-assisted research summary: Le vétérinaire du Gouvernement peut entrer de jour dans les étables et lieux contenant du bétail dans sa circonscription; en cas de refus, le bourgmestre peut l’autoriser par décision motivée, et en urgence le vétérinaire peut ordonner des mesures immédiates contre les épizooties ou maladies contagieuses.

AI-assisted research summary: Veterinary government vets, and also any veterinarian and châtreur, must report certain animal disease cases within 24 hours of diagnosis, or face a fine.

AI-assisted research summary: Government veterinarians must supervise the disinfection of certain railway equipment and station access areas used for transporting animals within the communes in their districts.

AI-assisted research summary: Several government and local enforcement actors are charged with finding and recording certain animal-health-related offences; the agriculture minister may also authorize other persons to do so.

AI-assisted research summary: Rules made under this law set penalties for the infractions, capped at 2 years' imprisonment and 2,000 francs fine, with stronger penalties elsewhere still applying where provided.

AI-assisted research summary: Old regulations and orders stay in force until changed under this law, and specified offences under the 1861 general regulation are punishable by the penalties set there.