Chap. 832.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13 and
to repeal section 15 of an act entitled an act to provide for the protection
of domestic animals, and to authorize and empower the board of control
of the experiment station of the Virginia agricultural and mechanical
college, at Blacksburg, to establish live stock quarantine lines, rules and
regulations, and to provide penalties for violating the same, approved
February 18, 1896, authorizing board of supervisors to quarantine against
other counties under certain conditions, and fixing the penalties for the
violation of the provisions of this act.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
eight, nine, ten, eleven, and thirteen, of an act approved February eigh-
teen, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled an act to provide for the
protection of domestic animals, and to authorize and empower the
board of control of the experiment station of the Virginia agricultural
and mechanical college at Blackburg to establish live stock quarantine
lines, rules, and regulations, and to prescribe penalties for violating the
same, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 8. The board of supervisors of each county, whenever any cases of
contagious or infectious diseases are reported to them in their county,
shall immediately investigate the same. The investigation may be by
the board or any member thereof, or by the employment of a qualified
veterinarian; and should such investigation show a reasonable proba-
bility that a domestic animal is affected with a contagious or infectious
disease, the supervisors shall immediately establish such temporary
quarantine as may be necessary to prevent the spread of the disease,
and report all action taken to the board of control of the experimental
station of the Virginia ayvricultural and mechanical college and _ poly-
technie institute at Blacksburg, or some member thereof; and the
acts of the supervisors establishing temporary quarantine shall have
the same force and effect as though established by the board of con-
trol itself, until such time as the said board of control shall take charge
of the case or cases. And that the boards of supervisors of each county
be hereby authorized and empowered to quarantine against any other
county in the state of Virginia on account of Texas or splenetic fever
or parasites, which mav convey said disease, under the supervision of
the board of control of the Virginia agricultural experiment station,
or its veterinarian. Before establishing such county quarantine the
board of supervisors shall advise with the board of control or its
veterinarian, and the county quarantine established bv the board of
supervisors shall conform to the rules and regulations which may be pre-
scribed by the board of control,or its veterinarian. It shall be the duty of
the board of supervisors to rigidly enforce anv such quarantine estah-
lished in their countv,and all expenses incurred by the supervisors in car-
rving out such quarantine shall be paid in like manner as other expenses
incurred by said supervisors in the discharge of their official duties.
The quarantine established against other infected counties may be so
established without proclamation by the governor.

§ 9. Any person who shall knowingly bring into this state anv
domestic animal which is infected with anv contagious or infectious
disease, or any animal which has been exposed to any contagious or infec-
tious disease, or which bears upon its body fever-ticks or other germs or
causes of disease, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred
dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.

§ 10. Anv person who owns or who is in possession of live stock which
is reported to be affected with any contagious or infectious disease, or
insects which mav produce disease, who shall refuse to allow said hoard.
or any one acting under its order, to examine such stock, or shall hinder
or obstruct the said hoard or appointee in anv examination of or anv
attempt to examine such stock, shall he deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in anv sum not less than one
hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

§ 11. Any person who shall have in his possession any domestic
animal infected with any contagious or infectious disease or fever-
ticks, knowing such animals to he affected, who shall permit such animal
to run at large, or who shall keep such animal where other domestic
animals not affected bv or previously exposed to such disease may
be exposed to its infection or contagion, or who shall ship, drive, sell.
trade, or give awav such diseased animal or animals which have been
exposed to such infection or contagion, or who shall move or drive anv
domestic animal in violation of anv direction, rule, regulation or order
of the board of control, establishing and regulating live stock quaran-
tine, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars, nor more
than one hundred dollars for each of such exposed or diseased domestic
animals which he shall permit to run at large or sell, ship, drive, trade,
or give away in violation of the provisions of this act: provided, that any
owner of domestic animals which have been atfected with or exposed to
any contagious or infectious disease may dispose of the same after
having obtained from said board or veterinary surgeon a bill of health
for such animal or animals.

§ 13. Except as otherwise provided in this act, any person who shall
violate, disregard, evade, or attempt to violate, disregard, or evade any
of its provisions, or who shall violate, disregard, or evade, or attempt
to violate, disregard, or evade any of the rules, regulations, orders, or
directions of the said board establishing and governing quarantine,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars, nor more than one
hundred dollars.

2. That section fifteen of said act is hereby repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.