The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-05-02

DAY.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and Re
in force from and after it's passage.
Approved April 21, 1903.
CHAPTER s52-H. F. NO. GIG.
AN ACT to establish the state live stock
sanitary board Of Minnesota and to
provide for the suppression and control
of dangerous contagious and infectious
diseases Of domestic animals.
Be it enacted by the legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section 1; That, a board is hereby es-
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shall consist of five 90 members to be
appointed by the governor Of the. State
Of Minnesota. Each member OF said
stats Of SIN Minn n Hires e'G members Of
said board shall be persons who are
financially interested in the breeding and
1T Minnesota. and two members of said
board shall be competent and qualified
veterinary surgeons who are graduates OF
some. regularly organized and recognized
of Minnesota.
Sec. 2. In making. the first appoint
ments to said state live stock sanitary AM
pointees into five classes: the term Of
office of each of the first appointees shall
commence on the first day Of April, 1903;
flee for term of one year; one for the
term of two years; one for the term of
three years: one for the term of four
and at the expiration of the term of office
of each Of the first appointees, sue sue,
cessor shall be appointed who shall hold
the term Of Office of one member of said
board shall expire every year. In case
of the death, resignation or removal of
any member Of said board during his
a successor to serve the unexp1red Por-
ton Of the term of office of such member.
Sec. 3: Immediately after the appoint
vided for the members thereof shall meet
at the city Of St. Paul, and from their
own number shall elect president and n1eat
from outside their number, a secretary,
who shall be a graduate Of some regu-
larly organized and recognized veter-
mary college, who shall be the executive
ceive such compensation as said state
live stock sanitary board may deter
mine. His term Of office shall be one
year. and ne :; shall d+a h9ld al MS oee uT be
said board may also, If it deem exped1ent,
elect a field veterinarian, a bacteriologlst
and an attorney for said board, which
said officers, if elected, shall also hold
Office for the term of one year, and shall
receive such compensation as may be de-
termined by said state live stock sanitary
board shall also have the power to ap-
point or employ such additional help as
it may deem necessary and expedient for
carrying into effect the powers and duties
conferred on said board by this act.
Sec. 4. No member Of said state live
stock sanitary board shall receive any
compensation for any services he may
render, either as a member of said board,
or to said board, under the provisions
of this act. save and except that the
members of said board shall receive their
actual expenses necessarily paid or IN
Cured in the discharge of their duties as
members of said board,
Sec. s. The said state live stock SAM
tary board shall hold quarterly meetings
after the second Tuesday in January,
April. July and October Of each year.
The annual meeting of said board for
the election of officers shall be on the
April Of each year.
Sec. 6. 1t shall be the duty of the said
state live stock sanitary board to protect
the health of the domestic animals of the
state; to determine and employ the most
efficient and practical means for the pre-
vention, suppression, control and erad1-
cation Of DANGEROUS CONTAGIOUS hn ana Sas m
animals Of the State Of Minnesota, and
for these purposes it is hereby authorized
and empowered to make all such rules
business Of said state live stock sanitary
board as it may deem expedient.
Sec. Z. It is hereby made the duty OF
the several local boards Of health OF the
to co,operate With and assist said state
live stock sanitary board in all matters
and things pertaining to the Rr prevent n;
dangerous, contagious or infectious dis
eases among the domestic animals OF the
state, whenever directed so to do by said
state live stock sanitary board or the
executive officer thereof, and In such
manner as directed by said state live
stock sanitary board
Sec. 8. All authority conferred upon
the State of Minnesota concerning the pre-
vention, control, suppression or eradlca-
ton Of contagious or infectious diseases
among any Of the domestic animals OF
board of health and conferred upon SAID
state live stock sanitary board: Ih ne
proviso at the end of section TOUR W
Of chapter two hundred and thirty-three
(233) Of the laws of Minnesota Tor the
year 1897, is hereby repealed.
Sec. g. Authority IS hereby, given to
the state live stock sanitary board and
to the several local boards Of health OF
State to take ali steps they may sever
allv deem necessary to control, suppress
and eradicate any and all contagious
and infectious diseases among any Of the
that end, said boards are hereby severally
empowered, within their respective juris-
dictions to quarantine any domestic ami
NAL which is infected with any such
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lection therefrom; to kill any animal
SO infected, and. whenever deemed nee
essary by the state live stock sanitary
board. to kill any animal which has been
exposed to the infection of any such dis
ease; to regulate or prohibit the arrival
in or departure from this state, or the
arrival in or departure from any OF the
towns, villages and cities thereof, of any
such exposed or infected animal, and at
the cost Of the owner thereof, to deta1n
any domestic animal found in violation Of
any such regulation or pron 1ti; 10
may be by such several boards deemed
necessary or expedient to enforce the
authority hereby given; and said state
pressly given authority to regulate or
prohibit the shipment into this state or
any domestic animal which in the judg-
ment of said board , may inoure the ae an
neither said state live stock sanitary
board nor any local hoard of health shall,
by any rule or regulation thereof pro.
any domestic animal Of any person or
persons from any place when such AMI
NAL has no disease or has not been ex-
posed to any contagious disease, and the
fact that animals Gre upon the same
premises with other animals having a
contagious disease shall not of itself nee
essarily be construed as evidence of ex-
posure to such contagious disease as Is
had by said other animals.
Sec 10. Any person who knows Of or
has reason to suspect the existence of
any contagious or infectious disease in
any domestic animal in the State Of Min
nesota shall forthwith give, notice there
town, Village or city wherein such ami
NAL is kept. Within twenty.four hours
after any local board of health shall re-
domestic animal is infected with any such
disease or has been exposed thereto, it
shall give notice thereof in writing to the
It, 1jrYo ct0o sanitary
Sec. H. All rules and regulations
adantad hu said state live stock sanitary