163.11 - IMPORTED ANIMALS. - Iowa Statutes

163.11 IMPORTED ANIMALS. A person shall not move an animal into this state, except to a public livestock market where federal inspection of livestock is maintained, for work, breeding, or dairy purposes, unless such animal has been examined and found free from all infectious or contagious diseases. No person shall bring in any manner into this state any cattle for dairy or breeding purposes unless such cattle have been tested within thirty days prior to date of importation by the agglutination test for contagious abortion or abortion disease, and shown to be free from such disease. Animals for feeding purposes, however, may be brought into the state without inspection, under such regulations as the department may prescribe except that this sentence shall not apply to swine.          Section History: Early Form [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2653; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 163.11]          Section History: Recent Form 2004 Acts, ch 1163, §4 Referred to in § 163.12 Additional provision, § 165.36