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SECTION 408a OF THE PENAL CODE. 

 (Amended hp chapter 426, Laws of 1894.) 



Section 408a of the Penal Code proyides as follows: 



§ 408a. Violation of the agricultural law. Any person who 

 disregards, disobeys or violates any proclamation, notice, order 

 or regulation lawfully issued or prescribed by the commissioner 

 of agriculture for the suppression or prevention of the spread of 

 infectious or contagious diseases among domestic animals, or who 

 violates any of the provisions of sections eighty and eighty-two 

 of article five of the agricultural law is guilty of a misdemeanor; 

 every person who violates any of the provisions of article two of 

 said chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by 

 a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hun- 

 dred dollars, or by imprisonment of not less than one month or 

 more than six months or by both such fine and imprisonment, for 

 the first offense. 



