Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1903-05-01
CHAPTER 352-H. It. NO. GIG.

CHAPTER 352-H. #. NO. GIG.
AN G to establish the state live STOCK
provide for the suppression and control
Of dangerous, contagious and infectious
diseases Of domestic animals: +ho
SECTION I: That a board is hereby es-
Live Stock Sanitary Board" This board
appointed by the governor Of the state
Of Minnesota. Each member Of said
board shall! be a qualified elector OF the
said board shall be persons who are
financially interested in the breeding and
maintenance of live stock in the state
board shall be competent and qualified
veterinary surgeons who are graduates OF
some regularly organized and recognized
veterinary colleges practicing In the State
Of Minnesota.
Sec. 2. In making. the first appoint
ments to said state live stock sanitary
board, the governor shall divide the apee
pOlntees into five classes: the term OF
office of each Of the first appointees shall
commence on the first day Of April. 1903;
one of said appointees shall hold his Of
term Of two years: one for the term of
three years: one for the term of four
years; and one for the term Of five years;
of each Of the first appointees, q sue,
cessor shall be appointed who shall hold
his office for a term of five years, so that
the term Of office Of one member of said
Of the death, resignation or removal of
any member of said board during his
a successor to serve the unexpired por-
ton of the term of office of such member.
Sec. q. Immediately after the appoint
ment Of the first board hereinafter pro.
vided for the members thereof shall meet
at the city of st. Paul, and from their
own number shall elect a president and a
vice president: They shall also elect
who shall b a graduate Of some regu-
larly organized n recognized veter-
mary college, who shall be the executive
officer Of said board, and VINO SHAH re-
live stock sanitary board may deter
year, and he shall hold his office until
said board may also, if it deem expedient,
elect q field veterinarian, a bacteriologist
and an attorney for said board. which
said officers, if elected, shall also hold
receive such compensation as may be de-
termined by said state live stock sanitary
board. The said state live stock sanitary
point or employ such additional help as
1t 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 pa1d or IN =
members Of said board.
Sec. 5. The said state live stock SAM
tary board shall hold quarterly meetings
in i ftt the tS city ae Of st. T Pau; on IT the :1a Frlday
April, July and October of each year.
The annual meeting Of said board for
the election Of officers shall be on the
Friday after the second Tuesday in
| 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 n practical means for the pre-
v%ention, suppression, control and erad1-
| cation Of dangerous, contagious, and in
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 expedtent.
Sec. Z. 1t is hereby made the duty OF
the several local boards of health. of the
| towns, villages, and cities Of this state
to. cooperate with and assist said state
live stock sanitary board in all matters
and things pertaining to the prevention.
suppression, control and eradication Of
dangerous, contagious or infectious dis
| eases among the domestic animals of the
state, whenever directed so to do by said
Executive officer thereof, and in uch
manne as directed by SAID state i've
stock sanitary board. .
Sec. 8. All authority conferred upon
the state board Of health by any law OF
| 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
this state is hereby taken from said stare
board Of health and conferred upon sa al
state live stock sanitary board. Ihs
proviso at the end of section tour ~
| Of chapter two hundred and thirty-three
(2a33) of the laws of Minnesota for the
year 1897, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 8. Authority is hereby given to
the state live stock sanitary board and
to the several local boards OF health or
the towns. villages and cities Of this
state, to take all steps they may sever
ally deem necessary to control, suppress
and eradicate any and all contagious
and infectious diseases among any Of the
that end. said boards are hereby severaily
empowered, within their respective juris-
! dictions. to quarantine any domestic anil
nal which is infected with any such
lection therefrom; to kill any animal
so infected, and, whenever deemed nee
essary by the state live stock sanitary
board, to kill any animal when mas peen
! ADOS0 ~ SAAS AASNSAo ~ IAJ SNSN ~-
| 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 detain
n domestic animal III in violation Of
any such regulation Or prohibition; to
| may be by such several boards deemed
necessary or expedient to enforce the
authority hereby given; and said state
-, - ,,i+1 wv - I r. owl nv-
pressly given authority to regulate or
prohibit the shipment into this state OF
any domestic animal which in the judy
ment of said board may 1njure the health
Of live stock in this state: provided that
neither said state live stock sanitary
board nor any local board 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"
fact that animals are 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 a 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
Of to the local board Of health Of the
town. village or city wherein such ami
NAL is kept. Within twenty-four hours
after any local board of health shall re-
| ceive notice or ave knowledge that any
domestic animal is infected with any such
disease or has been exposed thereto, it
shall give notice thereof in writing to the
! said state live stock sanitary board.
Sec. II. All rules and regulations
adopted by said state live stock sanitary
board or by any local board Of health IN
der the authority of this act shall be en-
| tered upon the minute Of the board so
adopting such rules or regulations and
shall be published in a newspaper to be
| dasienated hv the hoard making such rule