410 Ninth Annual Retort of the 



* ART! CLE IV. 



Diseases of Domestic Animals. 



Section GO. Suppression of infectious or contagious disease. 



61. Commissioner to issue notice. 



62. Farms to be quarantined; inspection of premises. 



63. Detention and destruction of animals. 



64. Employment of veterinary surgeons. 



65. Regulations and enforcement thereof. 



66. Penalties. 



67. Appraiser of condemned animals. 



68. Appraisal of diseased animals. 



69. Certificate of appraisal. 



70. Post-mortem examination of slaughtered animals. 

 70a. Compensation to owners of animals destroyed. 

 70b. Expenses. 



70c. Federal regulations. 



70d. Rights of federal inspectors. 



70e. Slaughtering and selling veal for food. 



70f. Shipping veal. 



70g. Receiving veal for shipment by common carriers. 



Section 60. Suppression of infectious and contagious disease. — 

 Whenever any infectious or contagious disease, affecting domes- 

 tic animals shall exist, 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. 

 The local boards of health shall notify the commissioner of the 

 existence of infectious or contagious disease affecting domestic 

 animals in the districts subject to their jurisdiction. 



§ 61. Commissioner to issue notice. — He shall issue and publish 

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

 ease exists in any designated county or other geographical dis- 

 trict 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 precaution 

 against the spreading of the disease, as the nature thereof may 



'Original Article IV was repealed, and new Article IV enacted, by Chapter 321 of the 

 Laws of 1901. 



