Title 36 — Livestock

As used in this chapter: 1. "Board" means the state board of animal health. 2. "Commissioner" means the agriculture commissioner. 3. "Destroy" means to condemn because of hog cholera under state authority and slaughter or otherwise kill as a result of or pursuant to such condemna…

The board or the state veterinarian may destroy or require the destruction of any swine that the board or the state veterinarian knows to be, or suspects is, infected with, affected with, or exposed to hog cholera, whenever destruction is necessary to prevent or reduce the danger…

The board or the state veterinarian shall appraise any swine destroyed or ordered destroyed pursuant to this chapter and shall indemnify the owner of such swine in an amount to be set by the board for either registered animals or grade animals.

It is hereby recognized and declared that indemnification for the destruction of swine infected with, exposed to, or suspected of being affected or exposed to hog cholera, is an expression of the public policy of this state to be employed only in the final phase of the official s…

The board may cooperate with the United States, or any department, agency, or officer thereof, in the control and eradication of hog cholera, including the sharing in the payment of indemnities for swine destroyed, but the state may only share in such payment of indemnities in th…

The board may make, promulgate, amend, repeal, and enforce rules and regulations for implementing this chapter.

Any act or omission of the board or commissioner pursuant to or within the purview of this chapter is reviewable by the courts of this state as provided in chapter 28-32.