163.10 - QUARANTINING OR DESTROYING ANIMALS.
163.10 QUARANTINING OR DESTROYING ANIMALS.
The department may quarantine or destroy any animal exposed to or
afflicted with an infectious or contagious disease. However, cattle
exposed to or infected with tuberculosis shall not be destroyed
without the owner's consent, unless there are sufficient moneys to
reimburse the owner for the cattle, which may be paid from the
appropriation provided in section 163.15, moneys in the brucellosis
and tuberculosis eradication fund created in section 165.18, or
moneys made available by the United States department of agriculture.
Section History: Early Form
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2652; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73,
75, 77, 79, 81, § 163.10] Section History: Recent Form
2004 Acts, ch 1163, §3