§ 504. Laboratories; scientific tests on living animals; rules;
approval. 1. The commissioner is authorized to designate approved
laboratories or institutions wherein properly conducted scientific
tests, experiments or investigations, involving the use of living
animals, may be performed or conducted.

2. (a) The commissioner shall promulgate rules under which such
approvals shall be granted, and shall cause such rules to be published,
and copies thereof shall be conspicuously posted in each such laboratory
or institution.

(b) Such rules of the commissioner shall include requirements that all
animals shall be kindly and humanely treated, properly fed and suitably
housed, and that commensurate with experimental needs and with the
physiologic function under study, all tests, experiments and
investigations involving pain shall be performed under adequate
anesthesia.

3. The commissioner or his duly authorized representative shall
inspect such laboratories or institutions to insure compliance with the
rules and standards promulgated by him.

4. (a) The approval of a laboratory or institution by the commissioner
for the purposes herein set forth shall be limited to a period not
exceeding one year but may be renewed from year to year upon proper
application to the commissioner.

(b) Each such approval may be revoked at any time for failure to
comply with the rules promulgated by the commissioner.

5. The performance of animal experimentation without approval by the
commissioner as herein provided shall constitute a misdemeanor.