The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-07-30

/ as PROVIDED fOT IN TINS Act.
Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect from the date
of its approval by the Governor. and all laws in
! consistent herewith are hereby repealed.
| Approved June g. 1909.
CHAPTER sO33-(No. o..
AN ACT to Provide for the Prevention, Suppress
sion and Control of Dangerous, Contagious and
| Infectious Diseases in Domestic Animals and
| Live Stock. and to Impose Certain Duties and
Confer Certain Powers on the State Board of
] Health for such Purposes.
Be il Enacted by the Legislature Of the State Of
Florida:
Section I, That it shall be the duty of the State
Board of Health of the State of Florida to protect
/ the health of domestic animals and live stock of
/ this State, and to determine and employ the most
efhc1ent and practical means for the prevention,
suppression, control and eradication of dangerous,
contagious and infectious diseases among such
! animals and live stock. That CHAMBERS, anthrax,
! blackleg. or blackquarter; contagious pleuro-
pneumonia, or lung plague, of cattle; rinderpest,
or cattle plague; hemorrhagic or septicaemia;
loot and mouth disease or aphthous fever OF cat
tie, southern cattle fever, or Texas fever, sheep
scab, mango of cattle or horses; hog cholera, or
swine plague; rabies or hydrophObia; maladie de
colt, or eldurine, of horses advanced or general
lied tuberculosis tuberculosis ofthe udder; and
all other diseases of domestic animals or live stock
which shall, by rule of the said State Board of
Health, be pronounced, defined and declared to be
contagious or infectious and dangerous to the life
of other domestic animals or live stock, or to
human beings, are hereby declared to be nuisances
Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of all practi-
TONERS of veterinary medicine, and of the owner Of
any animal or live stock afflicted with or suffering
from any of the diseases mentioned in Section of
this Act, or pronounced, defined or declared by
rule of said State Board of Health pursuant to the
provisions of said Section T. Immediately upon
gaining information of the existence of any such
disease in among such domestic animals or live
stock, to report the to the State Health
Officer of the State of Florida. All such reports
shall be in writing and shall describe the diseased
animal or live stock, and shall give the name and
address OF the owner person in charge thereof,
and the place where the same are kept
Sec. ). That no person who has knowledge of
the existence OF any OF the contagious or iufec-
tous diseases, in or among domestic animals or
hive stock enumerated in Section of this Act,
pronounced. declared and defined by said State
Board of Health as aforesaid or who shall have
knowledge that any such animal or live stock IS
afflicted with or suffering from any such disease.
shall conceal or attempt to conceal such diseased
animal or live stock or knowledge of such diseased
animal or live stock, from the State Health Officer
or the Veterinarian of the State Board of Health,
| or any other officer, representative or agent OF
said State Board of Health shall remove or at
tempt to remove such animal or live stock from
the reach, care control of such State Health
Officer, Veterinarian of the State Board of Health,
or any officer, representative agent of said
State Board of Health.
Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful for any person
to move upon or across any public highway, or to
expose to contact with other animals or to take,
carry or leave IN any public place any animal or
live stock known to be suffering afflicted with
any of the contagious or infectious diseases emu
merated in Section hereof, or pronounced, de-
clared and defined by said State Board Of Health
mission of the said State Health Officer, Veteri-
marian of the State Board of Health or some other
officer, agent or representative of said State Board
of Health.
Sec. 5. That said State Board of Health shall
have power to employ skilled veterinary surgeon
at salary to he fixed by said Board, to be known
as the Veterinarian of the State Board of Health,
who shall have and discharge such duties as may
from time to time be imposed upon him by said
Board or said State Health Officer, and to employ
agents and representatives of said State Board of
Health and of said State Health Officer to perform
any duties in connection with the administration
of this act that may be imposed upon them by
said State Board of Health or said State Health
Othcer from time to time.
Sec. g. That the State Board of Health is here
by authorized and empowered to establish, main
tain and enforce such quarantine and other meas
relating to the care and movements of ami
mails and live stock suffering from or afflicted with
any such contagious or infectious disease, and to
make. adopt and enforce from time to time such
rules and regulations as may be necessary or
proper for the enforcement OF this Act, and to
carry out the purposes thereof.
Sec. =. That the State Board of Health shall by
rule provide for safe and efectual manner for the
disposal and destruction of the carcasses of dones-
tic animals or live stock which shall have died
from or while afflicted with any Of the contagious
or infectious diseases enumerated in Section I of
this Act, or pronounced, defined and declared by
said State Board of Health, in such manner as to
prevent the continuance or spread OF such con-
tagion or infection.
Sec. 8. That it shall be the duty of the State
Health Officer. upon being notified Of the exist
ence, or suspected existence, of any case of con-
tagious infectious disease in any domestic
imal or live stock enumerated in Section of this
Act, or pronounced defined and declared by said
State Board of Health under the provisions Of said
Section I, to cause said animal or live stock to be
examined by said Veterinarian of the State Board
of Health or any other agent or representative of
said State Board of Health thereuntO duly author
lied in writing by said State Health Officer, and if
after such examination, the said State Health
Officer shall declare said animal or live stock 70 be
infected with any such contagious or infectious
disease the said State Health Officer shall have
the power to place such animal or live stock and
all other animals, which have been exposed to
said contagion or infection, in quarantine during
such length of time and under such circumstances
as said State Health Officer may determine to be
proper. That said State Health Officer shall have
the power to condemn any animal or live stock
which he shall so determine to be infected with
any such contagious or infectious disease and
thereupon it shall be the duty of the owner or per-
son in charge of such animal to kill the same forth
with, and make such disposition of the carcass
thereof as may be provided by the rule of said
State Board of Health hereunder That If the
owner or person in charge of any such animal or
stock when Hereunder required by said State
Health Officer. it shall by the duty of the State
Health Officer to order the Sheriff, OF any Deputy
Sheriff. in the county in which said animal or live
stock may be, to kill said animal or live stock i'm
mediately and dispose of the thereof IN the
manner prescribed by such rules. and IN such case
the State Board of Health shall have the right to
recover by an action of aSsumpsit from the owner
or person in charge of such animal or live stock,