1922 



Agricultural Law 



[Art. 5. 



Place of 

 slaughter. 



Experi- 

 ments. 



Sale of 

 diseased 

 animals. 



Substitute 

 for tuber- 

 culin. 



with the provisions of this section by causing all affected ani- 

 mals to be separated from the herd and quarantined as pro- 

 vided herein subject to the rc^iilalidiis of the department of agri- 

 culture. The commissioner of agriculture may determine the 

 place of slaughter of an animal to be killed under the provisions 

 of this chapter. The commissioner may experiment or cause 

 such experiments to be made or performed as he may deem neces- 

 sarv to ascertain or determine the best methods or means for the 

 control, suppression or eradication of communicable or infectious 

 disease or diseases affecting domestic animals. !No person shall 

 sell any animal known to have a communicable or infectious dis- 

 ease except for immediate slaughter unless such sale be made 

 under a written contract signed by both parties specifying the 

 disease with which such animal is infected, a copy of which shall 

 be filed in the office of the commissioner of agriculture. Xo per- 

 son shall knowingly inject into any bovine animal as and for 

 tuberculin any substance which is not tuberculin. 



Assist' 

 ants. 



Animals 

 destroyed 

 only on 

 certificate 



arlan. 



§ 95. Employment of veterinary surgeons. The commissioner 

 may employ such and so many medical and veterinary practi- 

 tioners and such other persons as he may, from time to time, deem 

 necessary to assist him in discharging the duties imposed upon 



rompensa- him by this article, and may fix their compensation, to the amount 

 appropriated therefor. IsTo animal shall be destroyed by the com- 

 missioner or by his order on the ground that it is a diseased 

 animal, unless first examined by a veterinary practitioner in the 



of jeterin- emplov of tlic commissioucr or whose work is approved by the 

 commissioner, nor until such practitioner renders a certificate to 

 the effect that he has made such examination, that in his judg- 

 ment such animal is affected with a specified infectious or conta- 

 gion? disease, or that its destruction is necessary in order to sup- 

 press or aid in suppressing such disease, or to prevent such dis- 

 ease, or to prevent the spread thereof, specifying the reasons for 

 such necessity. {As amended hy chapter 31G of the Laws of 

 1909.) 



*§ 64-a. Tuberculin, issuing certificates relative to tuberculin 

 tested cattle, branding of tuberculous animals. Any person using 



* This section erroneously numbered G4-a ; apparently intended to follow 

 § 95, which was § 64 of former Agricultural Law. 



