§ 2-40-1002 - Federal quarantine line.
2-40-1002. Federal quarantine line.
(a) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to drive or transport any cattle from south to north across the cattle quarantine line within the State of Arkansas as it may be fixed by the proper authorities of the United States.
(2) This section shall not apply to a person or corporation driving or transporting cattle across the quarantine line as infected cattle or as cattle from an infected district or to a person driving any cattle across the line during the time it is not prohibited by the authorities of the United States.
(b) (1) Any person or corporation that shall violate a provision of this section, being either the owner of the cattle, the carrier, or the driver for hire, or otherwise, shall be guilty of a violation.
(2) Upon conviction, an offender shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200).
(c) (1) Any citizen of this state shall have the power, and it shall be the duty of all peace officers of the respective counties of this state, to stop any cattle driven or transported or being driven or transported across the quarantine line from south to north and impound and drive or transport the cattle back south of the quarantine line.
(2) All costs and expenses incurred by a citizen or peace officer in impounding or driving the cattle back south of the quarantine line shall be taxed as costs against the person or corporation convicted of the unlawful driving of the cattle across the quarantine line in violation of this section.
(d) A court of competent jurisdiction in any county north of the quarantine line through which or into which cattle shall be driven shall have cognizance of a violation of a provision of this section.