Section 75. Sanitary regulations  


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  • The commissioner may adopt and enforce
      rules regulating the sanitation and physical  requirements  of  stables,
      livestock  auction  buildings or other buildings used for the housing of
      domestic animals for the purpose of preventing the spread  of  infection
      and  contagion among such animals and may provide for the inspection and
      examination of such stables and buildings. The  commissioner  may  adopt
      and  enforce  rules  concerning  the equipment for and the method of the
      sanitary production of milk and may  provide  for  the  examination  and
      scoring  of dairies in accordance with such rules. He may also prescribe
      such rules as may be necessary for disinfecting and  cleaning  premises,
      buildings,  railway  cars,  boats and other objects, from or by means of
      which infection or contagion of  animals  may  be  spread  or  conveyed.
      Vehicles  used  for the transportation of livestock shall be cleaned and
      disinfected  at  least  weekly,  or  as  otherwise   directed   by   the
      commissioner,   with   a  disinfectant  approved  by  the  commissioner.
      Vehicles used by a farmer in transporting his own livestock need not  be
      cleaned  and  disinfected as prescribed by the preceding sentence unless
      directed by the commissioner.