Section 40-14-2 - Certificate of health required for importation of livestock except for slaughter--Distribution of copies--Violation as felony.
40-14-2. Certificate of health required for importation of livestock except for slaughter--Distribution of copies--Violation as felony. All animals brought into this state for any purpose except immediate slaughter shall be accompanied by a certificate of health, issued in duplicate by authority of the state or territory from which it originates, or by authority of the United States Department of Agriculture, setting forth that such animals are free from all contagious, infectious, epidemic, or communicable disease, and from infestation of destructive parasites and does not originate from a district of quarantine, infestation, or infection, and that it has been inspected within a period of not more than thirty days prior to the arrival of such stock. One of the duplicate certificates shall be mailed to the Animal Industry Board at Pierre, in time for it to be received before the animal arrives at its destination, and the other shall be attached to the bill of lading when the animal is brought into the state. Any person who brings animals into the state in violation of this section is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Source: SDC 1939, § 40.0301; SL 1950 (SS), ch 7, § 1; SL 1977, ch 190, § 483; SL 1979, ch 270, § 1; SL 1990, ch 325, § 226.