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2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 69 - AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMALS
Chapter 15 - Board of Animal Health; Livestock and Animal Diseases.
- 69-15-1 - Repealed.
- 69-15-2 - Membership of board; appointments; terms; vacancies; advisory council.
- 69-15-3 - Office space; adoption of rules and regulations.
- 69-15-5 - Compensation of members of board.
- 69-15-7 - Employees; authority to employ professional, technical and clerical personnel; appointment of state veterinarian; bond; use of attorney.
- 69-15-9 - Powers of Board, State Veterinarian, officers and agents; entry upon premises to inspect and disinfect; liability; control, prevention, eradication, inspection and monitoring of chronic wasting disease and other contagious diseases of exotic cervids or livestock.
- 69-15-11 - Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory; services of laboratory; fees for services; qualifications of director and staff; advisory council; meetings; funds and property transfer to College of Veterinary Medicine.
- 69-15-13 - Appointment of federal personnel as inspectors; acceptance of federal assistance.
- 69-15-15 - Quarantine for anthrax.
- 69-15-17 - Repealed.
- 69-15-19 - Animal Care Fund.
- 69-15-51 - Purpose.
- 69-15-53 - Procedure following charge of violation; reviewing officer.
- 69-15-55 - Hearing committee; hearing procedure.
- 69-15-57 - Certification of findings and recommendations to Board of Animal Health.
- 69-15-59 - Waiver of right to hearing.
- 69-15-61 - Jurisdiction of Board of Animal Health; authority to adopt rules and regulations.
- 69-15-63 - Judicial review.
- 69-15-65 - Penalties.
- 69-15-67 - Failure to pay penalty.
- 69-15-69 - Immunity for witnesses.
- 69-15-101 - Areas for control of diseases of livestock and poultry.
- 69-15-103 - Spraying to prevent spread of disease at state fairs and community sale barns.
- 69-15-105 - County or district to establish program to control or eradicate ticks, flies, and other external parasites.
- 69-15-107 - Brucellosis eradication.
- 69-15-109 - Emergency control of foot and mouth disease and other infectious diseases of animals and poultry.
- 69-15-111 - Livestock; how brought into state.
- 69-15-113 - Infected livestock; pay for when destroyed.
- 69-15-115 - Penalties.
- 69-15-117 - All equidae located on premises where public participates in equine activities to be accompanied by copy of negative infectious anemia test; regulations; penalties.
- 69-15-201 - Employment of veterinarians to co-operate in tests.
- 69-15-203 - Veterinarians to be detailed to aid counties.
- 69-15-205 - Elections on tuberculosis control.
- 69-15-207 - Submission of cattle for tuberculin tests.
- 69-15-209 - Condemnation, branding and disposition of cattle reacting to tuberculin tests.
- 69-15-211 - Payment for condemned cattle in counties engaged in tuberculosis eradication under area plan; appraisement.
- 69-15-213 - Payment for condemned cattle in counties not operating on area plan.
- 69-15-301 - Duties of Board of Animal Health; assistant executive officer for tick eradication; inspectors, range riders and other employees.
- 69-15-303 - Advisory commission for tick eradication.
- 69-15-305 - Appointment, dismissal and compensation of local state inspectors and range riders.
- 69-15-307 - Board of supervisors to assist in eradicating tick fever.
- 69-15-309 - When board of supervisors to act.
- 69-15-311 - Infected cattle to be dipped.
- 69-15-313 - Board of supervisors to provide dipping vats when necessary.
- 69-15-315 - Violation by supervisors.
- 69-15-317 - Cattle and other livestock to be dipped.
- 69-15-319 - Notice to be posted in certain cases.
- 69-15-321 - Procedure when owner fails to dip.
- 69-15-323 - Expenses incurred in enforcement to be lien on animal.
- 69-15-325 - Driving and drifting from quarantined to free county.
- 69-15-327 - Duty of sheriff; penalty for failure to act.
- 69-15-329 - Destruction of vats.
- 69-15-331 - General penalty; injunction.
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