At the cost of the owner, the department may detain any animal found in violation of any departmental or statutory regulation or prohibition. The department may adopt, promulgate, and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the supervision and control of manufactured and refined food for animals to prevent deleterious substances being present in human foods of animal origin and the manufacture, importation, sale, and storage of any biological material including semen, remedy, or curative agent for use on or in any animal that may be capable of causing or spreading disease, and as far as practicable such rules and regulations approved by the United States Department of Agriculture shall be adopted. All of the powers and duties of the department with reference to the protection of the health of livestock shall be exercised by and through the Bureau of Animal Industry. The Department of Agriculture is authorized to purchase test animals for use of the department in connection with the treatment, suppression, and eradication of any livestock disease. The Legislature finds and declares that animal disease control is essential to the livestock industry and the health of the economy of this state.
Ratite bird means any ostrich, emu, rhea, kiwi, or cassowary.
The department and any officer, agent, employee, or appointee of the department shall have the right to enter upon the premises of any person who has, or is suspected of having, any animal thereon, for the purpose of making any and all inspections, examinations, tests, and treatments of such animal, and to declare, carry out, and enforce any and all quarantines. The department shall further adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to promptly and efficiently enforce and effectuate the general purpose and provisions of such sections. The Department of Agriculture or any officer, agent, employee, or appointee thereof shall have power to call upon any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or other police officer to execute the orders of the department, and the officer shall obey the orders of the department. The officers performing such duties shall receive compensation therefor as is prescribed by law for like services and shall be paid therefor by the county. The county attorney shall prosecute the person so offending according to law.