Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 109 of chapter 94 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1994 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 8, the word "ninety" and inserting in place thereof the following word:- sixty.

SECTION 2. Section 44 of chapter 129 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1994 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- No person shall import into the commonwealth any equine animal without a certificate relative to such animal from a laboratory approved by the United States Department of Agriculture, dated within one year from the time of such importation certifying a negative test for infectious equine anemia by a method approved by the United States Department of Agriculture for detecting said disease.

SECTION 3. Section 44A of said chapter 129, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 1 and 2, the words "an agar gel immunodiffusion test, commonly known as the Coggins test, for" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- a test approved by the United States Department of Agriculture for the detection of.