Chap. 252.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2197, chapter 99, of the Code
of Virginia, in relation to burial of hogs that died from disease, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved March 30, 1890, and by an act approved
February 14, 1896, so as to require the cremation or burial of all animals or
fowls that die from contagious or infectious diseases, and fixing the penalties
for violation thereof.

Approved March 15, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-one hundred and ninety-seven of the Code of Virginia, edition of
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended and re-enacted by an act:
approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and by an act
approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2197. The owner of any animal or grown fowl which has died from
any contagious or infectious disease, knowing of such death from such
disease, shall forthwith cremate or cause to be cremated, or bury or cause
to be buried, the body of such animal or grown fowl, and if he fails to do
so, any justice, after notice to the owner, if he can be ascertained, shall
cause any such dead! animal or fowl to be cremated or buried by a con-
stable, or other person designated for the purpose, and the constable or
other person shall be entitled to recover of the owner of every such animal
so cremated or buried a fee of five dollars, and of the owner of every such
fowl so cremated or buried a fee of one dollar, to be recovered in the same
manner as officers’ fees are recovered, free from all exemptions in favor
of such owner. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be
subject to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence.

2. This act shall not apply to any county until the board of super-
visors thereof shall adopt the same.

3. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.