RS 3:2184 Bringing infested animals into free or tick eradication area; dipping; sale of animals to cover expenses - Louisiana Statutes

§2184.  Bringing infested animals into free or tick eradication area; dipping; sale of animals to cover expenses

Whoever drives, conveys, transports, or allows to drift from any state into or through this state, or within this state, from a quarantined parish or area into a free parish or area, or within a parish or area in which systematic tick eradication is in progress, animals infested with or exposed to the cattle fever tick shall be punished in accordance with R.S. 3:2187.  The owner or his agent shall immediately dip the animals under supervision of the quarantine inspector and return the animals to the parish or state from which they came, at the owner's expense.  The owner shall pay all the costs incurred in the dipping of the animals.  All of these costs are to be paid by the owner, including the cost of returning the animals to the state from which they came before the animals are removed from the custody of the quarantine inspector.  If the owner fails to pay the costs immediately when demanded, the Louisiana Board of Animal Health may sell and dispose of the animals in accordance with R.S. 3:2181.  If no one claims the animals, or the owner cannot be found, the Louisiana Board of Animal Health may proceed under the provisions of R.S. 3:2179.  In case it is necessary to effect the sale of the animals, whosoever purchases the animals purchases with the direct obligation of immediately slaughtering the animals if the animals are cattle; if the animals are not cattle, the purchaser therein binds and obligates himself to keep the animals under quarantine until they are declared free of the cattle fever tick.

Acts 2008, No. 920, §1, eff. July 14, 2008.