ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XIV 1015 



Laws of Iowa Governing State Enrollment of Stallions 



Kept for Public Service, Sale, Exchange or 



Transfer, and Lien for Service Fee 



AN ACT regulating the keeping, offering for public service and sale of 

 stallions, jacks, and registered pedigreed stock, to define the terms 

 and conditions under which same may be kept, offered for public 

 service and sale, and providing penalties for the violation thereof. 

 Also repealing sections twenty-three hundred forty-one-a (2341-a), 

 twenty-three hundred forty-one-b (2341-b), twenty-three hundred 

 forty-one-c (2341-c), twenty-three hundred forty-one-d (2341-d), and 

 twenty -three hundred forty-one-e (2341-e), supplement to the code 

 1907. 



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 



Section 1. No person, firm, company or corporation shall offer for 

 public service, sale, exchange or transfer in this state as registered any 

 stallion or jack over two years old unless and until he shall have caused 

 the name, age, color and pedigree of the animal to be enrolled by the 

 secretary of the state board of agriculture and shall have procured from 

 him a certificate of such enrollment. The secretary of the state board of 

 agriculture shall recognize as registered only such animals as have been 

 recorded in some stud book recognized by the department of agriculture 

 of the state of Iowa, and the certificate of pedigree shall accompany the 

 application for enrollment. The state of Iowa shall be paid the sum of 

 one dollar for each annual certificate of soundness issued by the secretary 

 of the state board of agriculture according to the methods hereinater 

 provided. 



Section 2. The owner or keeper of each and every stallion or jack over 

 two years old kept for public service or for sale, exchange or transfer shall 

 make oath before an officer duly authorized to administer an oath that the 

 stallion or jack is to the best of his knowledge free from hereditary, 

 contagious or transmissible disease, or in lieu thereof a cereificate signed 

 by a duly qualified veterinarian who shall be a regular graduate of a 

 recognized veterinarian college, certifying that such animal is free from 

 hereditary, contagious or transmissible disease, and shall file the same 

 with the secretary of the state board of agriculture. Any veterinarian 

 who knowingly or wilfully makes a false report upon the disease or free- 

 dom from disease, or soundness or unsoundness of the animal brought 

 to him for examination shall be punished by the revocation of his vet- 



