(2) Animal means all vertebrate members of the animal kingdom except humans or wild animals at large;

(3) APHIS means the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture;

(4) Bovine means cattle and bison;

(5) Department means the Department of Agriculture or its authorized designee;

(6) Designated accredited veterinarian means an accredited veterinarian trained and approved to conduct specific bovine tuberculosis tests such as the bovine interferon gamma assay, other bovine tuberculosis program activities, or both; and

(7) State Veterinarian means the veterinarian in charge of the Bureau of Animal Industry within the department or his or her designee, subordinate to the Director of Agriculture.

(2) Certified copies of the portion of the federal regulations and the rules adopted by reference pursuant to this section shall be filed in the offices of the Secretary of State, Clerk of the Legislature, and department.

(2) In administering the act, the department may cooperate and contract with persons or appropriate local, state, or national organizations, public or private, for the performance of activities required or authorized pursuant to the act. The department may also cooperate with the APHIS in (a) the control and eradication of bovine tuberculosis in this state and (b) recommending where and how any available federal funds and state personnel and materials are allocated for the purpose of bovine tuberculosis control and eradication.

(3) In administering the act, the department shall have access to all livestock dealer and livestock auction market records to facilitate the traceback of affected, exposed, suspect, or reactor animals to the herd of origin or other point of original infection. Such records shall be maintained for a minimum of five years and shall be made available to the State Veterinarian upon request during normal business hours.

(4) For purposes of making inspections, conducting tests, or both, agents and employees of the department shall have access to any premises where animals may be located. Any person who interferes or obstructs any agent or employee of the department in such work or attempt to obstruct or prevent by force the carrying on of such inspection, testing, or both is guilty of a Class II misdemeanor.

(2) The department may also adopt and promulgate any other rules and regulations necessary to carry out the Bovine Tuberculosis Act.

(3) Accredited veterinarians are authorized to apply only the caudal fold tuberculin test. Tuberculin tests shall be conducted by a veterinarian employed by the department or APHIS or by a designated accredited veterinarian. All tests are official tests and shall be reported to the State Veterinarian on an official bovine tuberculosis test chart. Such report shall include the official identification, age, sex, and breed of each animal and a record of all responses and test interpretations.

(2) Disclosure of bovine tuberculosis in any animal shall be followed by an epidemiologic investigation in accordance with the Bovine Tuberculosis Act.

(3) No person shall prevent the testing of or remove any animal which has been placed in quarantine pursuant to this section from the place of quarantine until such quarantine is released by the State Veterinarian, except authorized movement for slaughter or other movement as authorized by the State Veterinarian. Any person who violates this subsection is guilty of a Class II misdemeanor. Each animal moved, purchased, sold, traded, bartered, granted, loaned, or otherwise transferred in violation of this subsection is a separate violation.

(2) The State Veterinarian may require and supervise the prescribed cleaning and disinfection of affected premises.

(2) Part of such state funds may be used by the department to pay a portion of the cost of testing done by or for accredited veterinarians if such work is approved by the department.

(3) In administering the act and program activities pursuant to the act, the department shall not pay for (a) testing done for change of ownership at private treaty or at concentration points, (b) costs of gathering, confining, and restraining animals subjected to testing or costs of providing necessary facilities and assistance, (c) costs of testing to qualify or maintain herd accreditation, or (d) indemnity for any animal destroyed as a result of being affected with bovine tuberculosis.

(4) The department is not liable for actual or incidental costs incurred by any person due to departmental actions in enforcing the Bovine Tuberculosis Act.

(2) No person, including a veterinarian, shall inject or apply tuberculin into or on any animal for the purpose of plugging, for the purpose of fraudulently concealing the presence of bovine tuberculosis in such animal, or for the purpose of preventing future reactions to tuberculin.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Attorney General or the county attorney of the county in which violations of the act are occurring or are about to occur, when notified of such violations or threatened violations by the department, to cause appropriate proceedings under subsection (1) of this section to be instituted and pursued in the district court without delay. It shall also be the duty of the Attorney General or county attorney of the county in which violation of the act occurred to prosecute violations without delay.

(3) This section does not require the department to report all acts for prosecution if in the opinion of the Director of Agriculture the public interest will best be served through other administrative, criminal, or civil actions.

(2) Any person aggrieved by any order entered by the director or other action of the director under the Bovine Tuberculosis Act may appeal the order or action, and the appeal shall be in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.

(3) This section does not prevent the department from first pursuing any other administrative, civil, or criminal actions provided in the Bovine Tuberculosis Act when there is a violation of the act or rules and regulations adopted and promulgated under the act.