Title 4, Title 4 and Animal Husbandry

The governor is authorized to accept on behalf of the state the rules and regulations prepared by the secretary of agriculture under and in pursuance of § 3, 21 U.S.C. § 114, of an act of congress approved May 29, 1884, entitled “An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal…

The inspectors of the state department of environmental management and the department of agriculture of the United States, in cooperation with the state department of environmental management, or with any agent of the state, has the right of inspection, quarantine, and condemnati…

The state is not liable for any damages or expenses incurred under §§ 4-4-12 and 4-4-13.

The state department of environmental management shall cooperate with the United States government in connection with the prevailing federal plan for the control and eradication of Bang’s disease and that department may make reasonable rules and regulations governing the control …

Sections 4-5-1 — 4-5-6 shall be construed to include payments for indemnities for animals killed, and for the testing and administration expense incurred, due to the prevalence of Bang’s disease.

Any person bringing into the state any neat cattle or other animals which he or she knows to be infected with any infectious or contagious disease, or who exposes the cattle or other animals, known to him or her to be infected, to other cattle and animals not infected with an inf…

The city and town councils of the several cities and towns may pass any ordinances as they think proper, to prevent the spread of infectious or contagious diseases among cattle and other animals within their cities and towns, and may prescribe penalties for the violation of the o…

The director of environmental management may prohibit the introduction of any cattle or other domestic animals into the state. Any person who brings, transports or introduces any cattle or other domestic animals into the state, after the director has issued an order forbidding th…

Subject to chapter 4 of title 36, the director of environmental management is authorized to fix the compensation of the cattle commissioners and veterinary surgeons, to prescribe their duties, and to remove them when deemed expedient.

The director of environmental management shall endeavor to obtain full information in relation to any contagious disease which may prevail among cattle or other domestic animals near the borders of the state, and shall publish and circulate that information in his or her discreti…

The director may appoint suitable and discreet persons, on or near the several highways, turnpike roads, railroads, and thoroughfares in the state, who shall inquire into all violations of this chapter and report those violations to the director.

Any person who sells or offers to sell any cattle or other domestic animals, or any part of these animals, known to him or her to be infected with any contagious disease, or with any disease dangerous to the public health, or who sells or offers to sell any milk from any infected…

The director of environmental management may make all necessary regulations for the prevention, treatment, cure, and extirpation of any disease, and any person who fails to comply with any regulation made shall be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300) or be imprisoned …

Whenever the director of environmental management makes and publishes any regulations concerning the extirpation, cure, or treatment of cattle or other domestic animals infected with, or which have been exposed to any contagious disease, those regulations shall supersede the regu…

All orders, appointments and notices from the director of environmental management, except the order of notice provided for in § 4-4-19, shall bear his or her signature.

All prosecutions for offenses against the provisions of §§ 4-4-17 — 4-4-25 shall be commenced within thirty (30) days after the offense has been committed, and not afterwards.

All turtles being sold in this state shall be certified by the seller as being free from salmonellosis. Any person knowingly violating this section shall upon conviction, be fined not less than twenty dollars ($20.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200).

Any owner of an animal suspected of having an animal disease determined by the director of environmental management to be contagious or injurious to public health or to the health of other animals, or any veterinarian who treats that animal, or any other person or institution hav…

The director of the department of environmental management or the director’s duly authorized representatives, having reason to suspect the existence of any of the diseases mentioned in this chapter upon any grounds or premises, are hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon th…

For every horse, ass, or mule condemned and killed as affected with glanders or farcy there shall be paid a sum not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00); provided, however, that no payment is made under the authority of this section for any horse, ass or mule that has not been owned …

No person having the care or custody of any animal having any one of the diseases mentioned in this chapter or chapter 5 of this title, shall, knowing the animal to have any of the diseases mentioned in this chapter or chapter 5 of this title, sell or exchange, or permit the remo…

A person who willfully sells or offers to sell, uses, exposes, or causes or permits to be sold, offered for sale, used or exposed, any horse or other animal having the disease known as glanders or farcy, or other contagious or infectious disease dangerous to the life or health of…