2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 3 — Agriculture and forestry
RS 3:2182 — Maintenance of quarantine lines; dipping animals in infested area released from quarantine
§2182. Maintenance of quarantine lines; dipping animals in infested area released from quarantine
The Louisiana Board of Animal Health shall be vested with full and complete authority to establish and maintain quarantine lines in any manner necessary to prevent the spread of the cattle fever tick (Margaropus annulatus); and no cattle, horses, mules, jacks, or jennets shall be removed, or allowed to move, from any enclosed area or premises that are quarantined, except by order of a duly authorized inspector. Should any parish of the state be, by order of the United States Secretary of Agriculture, released from quarantine, but nevertheless there be, in such parish or parishes, any particular locality, range, pasture, pen, stable, or other place where cattle, horses, mules, jacks, or jennets are infested with or exposed to the cattle fever tick, the provisions of this Part shall be operative, and the owners of the cattle, horses, mules, jacks, or jennets are required to dip all of the animals, every fourteen days in the manner provided by R.S. 3:2180.
Acts 2008, No. 920, §1, eff. July 14, 2008.
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