PREVENTION AND EXTIRPATION OF INFECTIOUS AND 

 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES AMONG LIVE STOCK. 



An act to protect domestic live stock from contagious and infectious diseases, 

 to provide for the appointment and duties of officials to carry into effect the 

 provisions of this act, and to provide an appropriation therefor. 



[Approved March 18, 1889. Amended, March 20, 1905 ; March 23, 1907 ; and March 19, 



1909.] 



The people of the State of California, represented in senate and 



assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. The office of state veterinarian of the State of California 

 is hereby created. It shall be the duty of the governor, within sixty 

 days after the passage of this act, to appoint a skilled veterinary sur- 

 geon for the State of California to fill said oftice of state veterinarian, 

 who at the date of such appointment shall be a graduate in good stand- 

 ing of a recognized college of veterinary surgery legally qualified to 

 practice as such in this state, and who shall hold office for a period of 

 four years from and after the date of qualification. The salary of said 

 state veterinarian shall be three thousand six hundred dollars per 

 annum, payable at the same time and in the same manner as are the 

 salaries of other state officers. Said state veterinarian shall also be 

 allowed his necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties 

 as hereinafter provided. In making said appointment it shall be the 

 duty of the governor to disregard political affiliations, and to be guided 

 in his selection merely by the professional and moral qualifications of 

 said veterinarian for the performance of his duties. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the state veterinarian, provided for 

 in the first section of this act, to protect the health of all live stock of 

 the state from all contagious and infectioiLs diseases, so far as prac- 

 ticable, and for the purpose he is hereby authorized and empowered, by 

 and with the approval of the governor, to establish, maintain, and 

 enforce such cpiarantine, sanitary, and other regulations as he may 

 deem necessary as to live stock passing over any quarantine line exist- 

 ing, or which may be established within the state. Said state veter- 

 inarian is aLso hereby authorized and empowered, by and with the 

 approval of the governor, to establish, maintain, and enforce such 

 quarantine, sanitary, and other regulations as he may deem necessary 

 as to live stock entering the state from other states and territories, and 

 from foreign countries. 



The governor is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint an 

 assistant state veterinarian, wdio shall hold office for a period of four 

 years from and after the date of his appointment, and whose salary 

 shall be three thousand dollars per annum, said salary to be paid at the 

 same time and in the same manner as are the salaries of other state 

 officers. Said assistant state veterinarian shall also be allowed his 

 necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties. 



Sec. 3. Upon information by him received of the exi.stence of con- 

 tagious or infectious diseases of domestic animals within this state, the 

 state veterinarian shall proceed to thoroughly investigate the same, and 



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