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ARTICLE IV. 



Diseases of Domestic Animals. 



Section 60. Suppression of infectious or contagious disease. 



61. Commissioner to issue notice. 



62. Farms to bo quarantined. 



63. Detention and destruction of animals. 



64. Employment of veterinary surgeons. 



65. Regulations and enforcement thereof. 



66. Penalties. 



67. Expenses. 



68. Compensation to owners of animals destroyed. 



69. Federal regulations. 



70. Rights of federal inspectors. 



§ 60. Suppression of infectious and contagious disease. 

 Whenever any infectious or contagious disease except tuberculosis 

 and glanders affecting domestic animals shall be brought into or 

 break out in this state, the commissioner of agriculture shall 

 take measures to promptly suppress the same^ and to prevent such 

 disease from spreading. 



P\§ 61. Commissioner to issue notice. He shall issue and pub- 

 lish a notice, stating that a specified infectious or contagious dis- 

 ease exists in any designated county or other geographical district 

 of the state, and warning all persons to seclude in the premises 

 where they may be at the time, all animals within such county or 

 district, that are of a kind susceptible to contract such disease, and 

 ordering all persons to take such precautions against the spread- 

 ing of the disease, as the nature thereof may in his judgment 

 render necessary or expedient, and which he may specify in such 

 notice. Such notice shall be published in such newspapers, and 

 be posted in such manner as the commissioner may designate, and 

 as, in his judgment, are most likely to give notice thereof. 



§ 62. Farms to be quarantined. The commissioner or an 

 assistant commissioner, shall order any premises, farm or farms 

 where such disease exists, or recently existed, to be put in quaran- 

 tine, so that no domestic animal be removed from or brought to 

 the premises or places quarantined, and shall prescribe such regu- 

 lations as he may judge necessary or expedient to prevent the 



