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STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Transporta- 



Mected 

 animals. 



sale of 



food. 



Penalty. 



DISPOSITION OF DISEASED ANIMALS. 



An act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases among 



animals. 



(Approved March 20, 1905; Stats. 1905, p. 317.) 



SECTION 1. Any person having the care, custody or control 

 dead animals, 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 common carrier of persons or freight that 

 sha11 transport 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 necessary to transport 

 such animal to the nearest crematory, shall be deemed guilty 

 of a misdemeanor. 



SEC. 3. No animal that has died of any of the diseases 

 Iiamecl in section one of this act, shall be sold, used or permitted 

 to be used for the food of human beings or sold, used or per- 

 mitted to be used for the food of any domestic animal or fowl. 



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 fifty dollars and not more than five 

 hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for a 

 term not exceeding one hundred eighty days, or by both such 

 fine and imprisonment. 



SEC. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Penal Code. 



Deposit of 374. Every person who puts the carcass of any dead 

 ?nrtrJS als animal, or the offal from any slaughter-pen, corral, or butcher 

 rivers, etc. shop into any river, creek, pond, reservoir, stream, street, alley, 

 public highway, or road in common use, or who attempts to 

 destroy the same by fire within one fourth of a mile of any 

 city, town, or village, except it be in a crematory, the construc- 

 tion and operation of which is satisfactory to the board of 

 health of such city, town, or village; and every person who 

 puts any water-closet or privy, or the carcass of any dead 

 animal, or any offal of any kind, in or upon the borders of any 

 stream, pond, lake, or reservoir, from which water is drawn for 

 the supply of any portion of the inhabitants of this state, so 

 that the drainage of such water-closet, privy, carcass or offal 

 may be taken up by or in such stream, pond, lake, or reservoir, 

 or who allows anj r water-closet or privy, or carcass of any 

 dead animal, or of any offal of any kind, to remain in or upon 

 the borders of any such stream, pond, lake, or reservoir within 

 the boundaries of any land owned or occupied by him, so that 

 . the drainage from which such water-closet, privy, carcass, or 

 offal, may be taken up by or in such stream, pond, lake, or 

 reservoir ; or who keeps any horses, mules, cattle, swine, sheep, 

 or live stock of any kind, penned, corralled, or housed on, 

 over, or on the borders of any stream, pond, lake, or reservoir, 



