Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 287. Animal Industry § 287.712

Sec. 12. (1) The director may issue a quarantine on animals, equipment, vehicles, structures, premises, or any area in this state, including the entire state if necessary, for the purpose of controlling or preventing the spread of a known or suspected infectious or toxicological disease.

(2) A person shall not move animals or any other items that are included in the quarantine without permission from the director.

(3) A person shall not allow animals under quarantine to mingle with or have contact with other animals not under quarantine without permission by the director.

(4) A person shall not import into this state an animal from another state or jurisdiction if that animal is under quarantine by the other state or jurisdiction unless that person obtains prior permission from the director.

(5) A person shall not import into this state an animal species, including a genetically engineered organism that is a variant of that species, from an area under quarantine for that species for any infectious or toxicological disease unless permission is granted from the director.

(6) The director may prescribe procedures for the identification, inventory, separation, mode of handling, testing, treatment, feeding, and caring for both quarantined animals and animals within a quarantined area to prevent the exposure of nonquarantined or quarantined animals to infectious or toxicological diseases.

(7) The director may prescribe procedures required before any animal, structure, premises, or area or zone in this state, including the entirety of this state if necessary, are released from quarantine.

(8) An animal found running at large in violation of a quarantine may be killed by a law enforcement agency. The director may enlist the cooperation of a law enforcement agency to enforce the provisions of this quarantine. A law enforcement agency killing an animal due to a quarantine under this section is not subject to liability for the animal.