2476 ARTICLE 58

An. Code, 1924, sec. 8. 1924, ch. 202, sec. 5C.

8. The owner or his agent shall so secure animals as to make it possi-
ble for the agent of the Board to apply the test he deems necessary.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 9. 1924, ch. 202, sec. 5D.

9. Any owner or owners refusing or failing to comply with the pro-
visions of Sections 6, 7, or 8, or violating any of the provisions of said
sections shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $25.00 for every-
day he shall be found to have failed to comply with any of said sections
or violated any of the provisions of any of said sections.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 10. 1912, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 6. 1888, sec. 6. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 6.

1916, ch. 337.

10. Any person who shall violate or transgress the terms or require-
ments of any order or regulation issued and prescribed by the said State
Board of Agriculture or its duly authorized officer under the authority
of this Article, or shall refuse to said officer or his assistants access to his
premises, farms, stables, cars, sheds or pens, or shall resist said officer of
the State Board of Agriculture or his assistants in applying any of the
quarantine orders or regulations or shall conceal the fact that contagious
or infectious disease exists on his premises, shall be subject to a fine of
not more than one hundred nor less than fifty dollars, which fine may be
imposed by any station house Justice of the Peace of the City of Balti-
more, or any Justice of any county where such offense may be committed.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 11. 1912, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 7. 1888, sec. 7. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 7.

1916, ch. 337.

11. It shall be the duty of (all persons practicing veterinary medi-
cine in this State to report immediately to said Board all cases of con-
tagious or infectious diseases among live stock which may come to their
knowledge) every practitioner of veterinary medicine in Maryland, im-
mediately upon receiving information thereof, to report to the State Board
of Agriculture each case of any of the following diseases, namely: glan-
ders, anthrax, blackleg or black quarter; contagious pleuro-pneumonia,
or lung plague of cattle; rinderpest or cattle plague; hemorrhagic sep-
ticemia; foot and mouth disease, or aphthous fever of cattle; southern cat-
tle fever or Texas fever; sheep scab, mange of cattle or horses; hog cholera,
or swine plague; fowl cholera; rabies or hydrophobia; maladie du coit, or
dourine of horses; advanced or generalized tuberculosis or tuberculosis of
the udder; or any other disease now or hereafter proclaimed by the State
Board of Agriculture to be of a transmissible character, or any domestic
animal reacting to tuberculin or mallein test. This report shall be in writ-
ing, and shall include a description of each animal affected, with the
name and exact address of the owner or person in charge of the animal,
if known, and the exact locality of the animal, and the number of sus-
ceptible domestic animals that have been exposed to the disease; and a
failure to so report for forty-eight hours after they shall come into such
knowledge shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof,
they shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense.