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LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE, 



to believe them to be diseased, without disclosing the fact to the pur- 

 chaser, shall, upon conviction of either of said offenses, be fined in any 

 sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and be liable to parties injured 

 for all damages sustained. 



See 6855 as to allowing diseased animals to run at large. 



SEC. 4212. [Duties of carriers and owners of stock yards.] All 

 railway companies and owners of steamboats used in conveying live 

 stock and owners of stock yards and other premises that may be oc- 

 cupied by such stock, shall, immediately upon discovering any con- 

 tagious disease among stock occupying such cars, boats, yards, or other 

 premises, take all possible measures to prevent such diseased stock from 

 communicating the contagion to other stock, and shall moveover cause 

 all such cars, boats, yards, and premises to be thoroughly disinfected 

 before the same shall be occupied by other stock. Every corporation and 

 company, their officers and employes, or individuals violating the pro- 

 visions of this section, shall pay a penalty not exceeding five hundred 

 dollars, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction, and shall 

 also be liable to parties injured for all damages that may be occasioned 

 thereby. 



DOGS. 



(4212-1) SEC. i. [When dog to be considered property.] Any 

 animal of the dog kind listed and valued for taxation as other [per- 

 sonal] property, and due return thereof made by the owner or harborer to 

 the assessor or county auditor and the per capita tax upon such animals in 

 addition to the proper tax on any valuation which may have been placed 

 on such animal by the owner or harborer thereof shall have been paid 

 when due, shall be considered as property and such animal shall have 

 all the rights and privileges and be subject to the same restraints as are 

 provided by law for other live stock ; provided that no recovery shall 

 be had for the malicious and unlawful killing of such animal, in excess 

 of double the amount for which any such dog is listed for taxation; 

 provided, further, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as 

 to make it unlawful for any person to kill any animal of the dog kind 

 that chases, worries, injures or kills any sheep, lamb, goat, kid, domestic 

 fowl, animal or person ; and provided, further, that if any person in at- 

 tempting to kill such animal so running at large, fails to kill, and wounds 

 the same, he shall not be liable to prosecution under Section 6951 which 

 provides against cruelty to animals. 



(4212-2) SEC. 2. [When dog may be killed at any time; owner 

 liable for damages.] Any animal of the dog kind that chases, wor- 

 ries, injures or kills any sheep, lamb, goat, kid, domestic fowl, animal 

 or person, may be killed by any person, at any time or place. And the 

 owner, owners or harborers of any animal of the dog kind, that chases, 

 worries, injures or kills any sheep, lamb, goat, kid, animal or person, shall 

 be jointly and severally liable to any person so damaged to the full 

 amount of the injury done; and the court or justice, before whom the 

 recovery is had for any such injury shall declare the animal found to 

 have occasioned the injury to be a common nuisance and order the de- 

 fendant to kill or cause to be killed such animal within twenty-four 

 hours after the rendition of the judgment ; or the court or justice may 

 order any constable or marshal or sheriff to kill such animal. 



SEC. 4214. [Liability to owner of dog for killing or injury.] 

 The owner of any such animal listed for taxation, killed or maliciously 



