— 8 — 



within an enclosure, or herd the same in some jilaee where they -will be 

 secure from contact with other animals of like kind not so affected, or 

 who shall suffer such infected animals to be driven on the public high- 

 way or to range where they will be likely to come in contact with other 

 animals not so affected, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- 

 viction, punished by a tine of not more than five hundred dollars for 

 each offense. 



Making it a misdemeanor for any practitioner of veterinary medicine wlio fails 

 to report to the State Veterinarian certain diseases among animals. 



Penal Code, Section 402e. Any practitioner of veterinary medicine 

 in the State of California who shall, upon gaining information thereof, 

 fail to immediately report in writing to the state veterinarian the loca- 

 tion, description, and name and address of the owner or person in 

 charge, if known, of any animal or animals affected with any one of the 

 following diseases: glanders, anthrax, blackleg, hog cholera, swine 

 plague, verminous bronchitis, sheep scab, mycotic lymphangitis, aph- 

 thous fever, or Texas fever, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 



An act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases among animals. 



[Approved March 20, 1905.] 

 Statutes of 1905, p. 317. 



Section 1. Any person having the care, custody or control of any 

 animal that dies from tuberculosis, glanders, farcy, Texas fever, or other 

 infectious disease, shall immediately upon the death of such animal 

 cremate or bury the same, or cause the same to be cremated or buried. 



Sec. 2. Any connnon carrier of persons or freight that shall trans- 

 port any animal suffering with or that has died from the diseases, or 

 any of them, mentioned in section one of this act, a greater distance than 

 is nece-sary to transport such animal to the nearest creamatory. shall 

 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 3. No animal that has died of any of the diseases named in 

 section one of this act, shall be sold, used or permitted to be used foi- the 

 food of human beings or sold, used or permitted to l)e used for the food 

 of any domestic animal or ft)\vl. 



Sec. 4. Any person, firm or corporation that shall violate any of the 

 provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 

 conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than H^.IO.OO and 

 not moi-e llian $.■)()(). 00 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term 

 not exceed one hundred and eighty days, or by botii such fine and 

 imj)risonment. 



Sec. 5. This act shall lake (>ft'ect iimnedinlelv. 



