An act providing for the extermination of the boophilus annulatus tick, defining 

 certain crimes and providing for certain civil and criminal actions. 



[Approved March 21, 1907; Amended February 23, 1909.] 



Section 1. Any pensoii who .sliall willL'iilly or iiilciilioiially .sell, (ift'er 

 for .sale, or expose in such a manner as may infest hIIkt cattle or other 

 live stock not so infested, any cattle havini!: thereon or heing infested 

 with the boophilus annulatus tick, shall l)e uuilty of a misdemeanor ; 

 provided, however, that the moving or handling of tick infested cattle, 

 when same are to be immediately slaughtered and where said cattle are 

 loaded on railroad cars at point of origin of said cattle, .shall not lie 

 deemed to be a wilful or intentional exposing of such cattle as referred 

 to in this section. 



Sec. 1^. Whenever cattle infested with or exposed to the infestation 

 of the boophilus annulatus tick are to be moved for the purpose of 

 immediate slaughter, and where no provisions are made for the loading 

 of such cattle directly into railroad cars at their point of origin, such 

 cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move after said cattle have first 

 been dipped or otherwise treated in a manner as directed by tlie state 

 veterinarian or his duly authorized deputy. 



Sec. 2. Whenever upon examination of any cattle located in any 

 county of the State of California the state veterinarian or his duly 

 authorized deputy shall find such cattle or any portion of them to be 

 infested with the boophilus annulatus tick, he shall forthwitli notify in 

 writing the owner or person in control of such cattle to dip or otherwise 

 treat all said cattle in a manner as directed by said state veterinarian or 

 his duly authorized deputy for the purpose of eradicating sucli ticks. 

 Such owner or person in control of such cattle shall, within a period of 

 fifteen days after receiving such notice, dip or otherwise treat such cattle 

 in a manner as directed by the state veterinarian or his duly authorized 

 dej)uty for the purpose of so eradicating such tick. 



Sec. li. If upon examining said cattle after the expiraliou cf .said 

 period of fifteen days the said state veterinarian or his duly aulliorized 

 deputy shall find that said cattle have not been so dipped or otherwi.se 

 treated in a manner as directed l)y said state veterinarian or his duly 

 authorized deputy, such officer shall immediately nolir.N- the district 

 attorney of the county in which such cattle may be located. 



Sec. 4. If upon such second examination the state veterinarian <n- 

 his duly aulliorized do])uty shall find that said cattle have nut lieeu 

 dij)i)ed or otherwise treated in a manner as directed by saitl state veter- 

 inarian or his duly authorized deputy for the purpose of eradicating and 

 destroying said tick, said officer shall immediately take ])Ossession of said 

 cattle and pi'oceed to eradicate and destroy said tick by <lippiuL' or 

 causing to be ili[)ped or by otlu'i'wise treating said cattle. 



Sec. 5. All the expenses and costs of so di|)|)iug ;iii(l Irealitii;' said 

 cattle shall become and remain a lien on said cattle until .such lieu is 

 paid or foreclosed as provided by law. 



Sec. (J. If such lieu is not ])ai(l within lil'leeu days a Tier the said 

 expenses and costs ai'e incurred, tlieu the state velei-inari;iu shall, in t h(> 

 name of the people ol" the State oL' ( -alifornia, connnence an action to 

 Foreclose said lien. Such action shall be eomuieuced. triiMl and deter- 



