LIVE STOCK. 2071
disease may exist; and it may have its officer or agent visit any such stable
at any hour, and said officer or agent shall have power to order all animals
which have been exposed to such contagion or infection to be isolated in
such manner as the nature thereof may in his judgment render necessary
to prevent the spreading of such disease; to order that any premises, farm
or farms, stables or railway cars, where such disease exists, or has existed,
be put in quarantine, so that no domestic animals of the same species shall
be removed from or brought to the premises or place so quarantined until
the same shall have been properly disinfected; to prescribe such regulations
as he may judge necessary or expedient to prevent infection or contagion
being communicated in any way from the places so quarantined; to call
upon all sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, constables, policemen or other officers
of the State, the City of Baltimore, or of any county, for information and
assistance to carry out and enforce the provisions of such orders and regu-
lations; to prescribe regulations for the destruction of animals affected
with or exposed to an infectious or contagious disease, and for the proper
destruction of their hides and carcasses, and all objects which might carry
infection or contagion; to prescribe regulations for the disinfection of all
buildings, premises and railway cars, and of all objects from which, or by
which infection or contagion might take place, or be conveyed; to alter
and modify from time to time, as he may deem expedient, the terms of all
such orders and regulations, and to cancel or withdraw the same at any
time; and it shall be the duty of all sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, constables,
policemen or other officers of the State, City of Baltimore, or counties, to
obey and observe all orders and instructions which they may receive from
said State Board of Agriculture or its duly authorized officers or agents in
the enforcement of the provisions of this Article within their respective
jurisdiction.
1924, ch. 202, sec. 5A.
6. For the protection of public health and to prevent the infection of
the live stock of the State with contagious disease, the State Board of
Agriculture through Federal Licensed Inspectors is hereby empowered to
enter upon any premises at any time and test for tuberculosis or other
contagious disease by any method, any animal found thereon; and should
any such animal be found to be infected with tuberculosis or other con-
tagious disease, the Board or its agent shall have power to quarantine such
animal and all premises and such other animals as it or he may think
necessary to prevent the spread of the disease. The State Board of Agri-
culture through its authorized Agents is empowered to require the slaughter
and disposal of any animals found to be infected with tuberculosis or other
contagious disease, under such regulations as the State Board of Agriculture
may from time to time issue under the powers granted in sections 6-9 for
the control of such contagious disease.
1924, ch. 202, sec. 5B.
7. The State Board of Agriculture through its authorized Agents is
hereby empowered to prohibit the shipment of cattle or other live stock
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