CHAP. 427.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section 2197 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
1, 1896, so as to require the cremation or burial of all animals or
fowls that die from contagious or infectious diseases, and fixing pen-
alties for violation thereof, approved March 15, 1904, making the act
apply to animals or fowls dving from any disease, as amended by an
act approved January 30, 1912. (H. B. 89.)

Approved March 21, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled-an act to amend
and re-enact section two thousand one hundred and ninety-seven
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 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and by an act ap-
proved February first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, so as to
require the cremation or burial of all animals or fowls that die
from contagious or infectious diseases, and fixing penalties for
violation, approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and four,
making the act apply to animals or fowls dying from any disease,
as amended by an act approved January thirtieth, nineteen hun-
dred and twelve, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 2197. The owner of any animal or grown fowl
which has died from any 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
constable, 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 guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding
twenty dollars for each offense.

2. This act shall not apply to any county until the board of
supervisors shall adopt the same.

3. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are here-
by repealed.