2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 3 — Agriculture and forestry
RS 3:2177 — Duties of quarantine inspectors; dipping requirements

§2177. Duties of quarantine inspectors; dipping requirements

The quarantine inspectors shall supervise the dipping of all cattle, horses, mules, jacks, and jennets in the parishes designated annually and in the parishes found either partially or completely infested with the cattle fever tick (Margaropus annulatus), or in any other parishes which have not fully completed the work of tick eradication, paint-mark cattle, horses, mules, jacks, and jennets which have been properly dipped, ride the range, take up all animals which have not been properly dipped at fourteen-day intervals and are not paint-marked, give such notices as may be hereinafter provided, keep proper records of their work and report to the Louisiana Board of Animal Health, and perform such other duties necessary for effective tick eradication in Louisiana as they may be from time to time directed by the Louisiana Board of Animal Health. All horses, mules, jacks, and jennets within the quarantined area or under local quarantine shall be dipped regularly every fourteen days, except as hereinafter provided for. Horses, mules, jacks, and jennets, when brought to the vat regularly every fourteen days and inspected by a quarantine inspector and found to be tick free, may be paint-marked and permitted to return without dipping, so long as their owner keeps them free of all tick infestation; horses, mules, jacks, and jennets may be dipped or sprayed at the vat at the option of the owner. Horses, mules, jacks, and jennets, including mares and colts, when permitted to range in pastures and on ranges shall be dipped or sprayed and all workhorses and mules found to be tick infested shall be dipped or sprayed. All quarantine inspectors shall have full police powers in carrying out the requirements of this Part.

Acts 2008, No. 920, §1, eff. July 14, 2008.