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STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Owners 

 jointly 

 liable. 



Exemptions. 



Repeal. 



owner or person in control of said cattle has not continued to 

 properly dip or otherwise treat said cattle for the purpose of 

 destroying said ticks, then said state veterinarian or his duly 

 authorized deputy shall take possession of said cattle one or 

 more times as in this statute provided. 



SEC. 9. In any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, aris- 

 ing under this act, any and all persons having an interest in 

 the cattle or in control or possession of the same, and concern- 

 ing which cattle such action or proceeding is had, shall be 

 liable severally and jointly for each violation of the provisions 

 of this act. 



SEC. 10. Whenever the state veterinarian* or his duly 

 authorized deputy is satisfied that any cattle are in process 

 of fattening, and that such cattle will be ready for slaughter 

 within a period of one hundred and twenty days, he shall 

 exempt such cattle from dipping, as provided in this act. 



SEC. 11. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act 

 are hereby repealed. 



Unlawful to 

 sell infected 

 sheep. 



Notice to 

 owner to dip 

 infected 

 sheep. 



Failure to 

 dip sheep. 



ERADICATION OF SCABIES. 



An act providing for the eradication of the disease known as 

 scabies in sheep; providing for the duties of the state 

 veterinarian in relation thereto; making certain acts in 

 relation to sheep infected with such disease a misdemeanor; 

 providing for a lien against such sheep for expenses and 

 costs in the extermination of such disease; making certain 

 persons liable for a violation of this act, and providing for 

 the enforcement of said lien. 



(Approved February 23, 1909; Stats. 1909, p. 53.) 



SECTION 1. Any person who shall knowingly sell, offer for 

 sale, or expose in such a manner as may infect other sheep not 

 so infected any sheep infected with the disease known as 

 scabies shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 



SEC. 2. Whenever, upon examination of any sheep located 

 in any county of the State of California, the state veterina- 

 rian* or his duly authorized deputy shall find such sheep or 

 any portion of them to be infected with or to have been 

 exposed to infection from the disease known as scabies he 

 shall forthwith notify in writing the owner or person in con- 

 trol of said sheep to dip all of said slieep in a manner as 

 directed by said officer for the purpose of eradicating said 

 disease. Such owner or person in control of said sheep shall, 

 within a period of ten days after receiving such notice, dip 

 all of said sheep in a manner as directed by said officer. 



SEC. 3. If, upon the expiration of ten days from the date 

 on which notice was given to dip sheep as provided for in 



*See note, page 11 hereof. 



