196 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Sec. 17. Every person owning or having in charge any domestic ani- 

 mal or carcass of an animal that has died or heen killed on account of 

 disease shall dispose of the carcass in the manner provided by the rules 

 and regulations prescribed by the state live stock sanitary board. No 

 person shall sell, or offer to sell or give away any carcass of any animal 

 which has been killed or died on account of disease, nor convey the same 

 along any public road or upon any land not his own. Nor shall any 

 person negligently or wilfully permit diseased animals, controlled or 

 owned by him to escape his control or to run at large. Every violation 

 of any provision of this section shall be a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 18. Every owner or person having charge of any animal, know- 

 ing the same to have any infectious or contagious disease, or to have 

 recently been exposed thereto, who shall sell or barter the same, or 

 knowingly permit such animal to run at large or come into contact with 

 any other animal, or with another person without his knowledge and 

 permission, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not 

 more than thirty days, or by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor 

 more than one hundred dollars, and the seller of such animal under the 

 conditions stated shall be liable to the purchaser to the extent of the 

 purchase price. 



Sec. 19. The live stock sanitary board or any member thereof, or any 

 of their duly authorized agents, shall at all times have the right to 

 enter any premises, farm, fields, pens, abattoirs, slaughter houses, build- 

 ings, cars or vessels where any domestic animal is at the time quar- 

 tered, or wherever the carcass of one may be for the purpose of exam- 

 ining it in any way that may be necessary to determine whether they 

 are or were the subjects of any contagious or infectious diseases. 



Sec. 20. The state live stock sanitary board is hereby empowered to 

 appoint and employ such assistants and agents and fix the compensation 

 thereof at not to exceed five dollars per day and actual and necessary 

 expenses, and to purchase such supplies and materials as may be neces- 

 sary in carrying out the provisions of this act; and the board and the 

 members thereof are hereby empowered to administer oats or affirmations 

 to the appraisers appointed under this act, that they may order and con- 

 duct such examinations into the condition of live stock of the state in 

 relation to contagious diseases, including milk supplies of cities and 

 towns, boroughs and villages, as may seem necessary, and to take proper 

 measures to protect such milk supplies from contamination. 



Sec. 21. That it shall be unlawful for any transportation company 

 to bring into the state of Iowa any horses mules, asses, cattle, sheep or 

 swine, for work, breeding or dairy purposes, unless such animals have 

 been examined and found free from the following contagious diseases, 

 to-wit: Glanders, farcy, tuberculosis, hog cholera, scabies, maladie du 

 coit, or any other contagious or infectious disease, which freedom from 

 disease shall be established by a certificate of health signed by a state 

 veterinarian or assistant state veterinarian acting under the order or 

 discretion of the live stock sanitary board of this state, or of the state 

 live stock sanitary board of the state from which shipment is made. 



