177A.13 - QUARANTINES -- SEIZURE AND DESTRUCTION.
177A.13 QUARANTINES -- SEIZURE AND DESTRUCTION.
Whenever the state entomologist shall find that there exists in
this state, or any part thereof, any dangerously injurious insect
pest or plant disease, and that its dissemination should be
controlled or prevented, the entomologist may institute quarantines
and promulgate quarantine restrictions covering areas within the
state affected by such pest or disease, and may adopt, issue and
enforce rules supplemental to such quarantines for the control of
this pest. Under such quarantines, the state entomologist, the
entomologist's inspectors or authorized agents may prohibit and
prevent the movement within the state without inspection or the
shipment or transportation within this state, of any agricultural or
horticultural product, or any other material of any character
whatsoever, capable of carrying any dangerously injurious insect pest
or disease in any living state of its development; and, in the
enforcement of such quarantine, may intercept, stop, and detain for
official inspection any person, car, vessel, boat, truck, automobile,
aircraft, wagon, or other vehicles or carriers of any kind or
character, whether air, land, or water, or any container or material
believed or known to be carrying such insect pest or plant disease in
any living state of its development or any such material, in
violation of said quarantine or of the rules issued supplemental
thereto, and may seize, possess, and destroy any agricultural or
horticultural product or other material of any character whatsoever,
moved, shipped, or transported in violation of such quarantines or
the said rules.
The state entomologist shall give public notice of such
quarantines, specifying the plants and plant products infested or
infected, or likely to become infested or infected; and the movement,
planting or other use of any such plant or plant product, or other
thing or substance specified in such notice as likely to carry and
disseminate such insect pest or disease, except under such conditions
as shall be prescribed as to inspection, treatment and disposition,
shall be prohibited within such area as the entomologist may
designate. When the state entomologist shall find that the danger of
the dissemination of such insect pest or disease has ceased to exist,
the entomologist shall give public notice that the quarantine is
raised. Section History: Early Form
[S13, § 2575-a48; C24, § 4049; C27, 31, 35, § 4062-b13; C39, §
4062.13; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 267.13; C75, 77, 79,
81, § 177A.13]
Referred to in § 177A.19