267.100. Petition for veterinarian's services to control contagious disease. - Missouri Statutes

Petition for veterinarian's services to control contagious disease.

267.100. 1. It shall be lawful for any ten residents of this state togo before any clerk of a court of record or associate circuit judge and demandthe presence and services of the veterinary surgeon in the following manner:

State of Missouri, )

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County of ....... . )

To the director of agriculture,

Jefferson City, Missouri.

We, the undersigned citizens, residents of the county of ........,believe that there exists in this locality a dangerous, infectious diseaseamong (here name the kind of stock, the name in full of the party owning thesame or in charge thereof, the part of the county in which it is situated,together with the nearest railroad station and post-office address, and fulldirections as to the best and most expeditious way for the veterinary surgeonto reach said stock); therefore, we request the presence of the stateveterinary surgeon.

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2. Which petition may be certified to in the following manner:

State of Missouri, )

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County of ....... . )

I hereby certify that the above named petitioners are known to me to bereputable citizens of this county.

(Signed by the clerk of the court or associate circuit judge and attestedby his official signature, giving day of the month and the year.)

3. The department of health and senior services may demand of thedirector of agriculture, through the director of the department of health andsenior services, the services of the state veterinary surgeon to aid it in theinspection of such infectious or contagious diseases as are transmissible tothe human family, and in examination of meats, milk and foods, when, in thejudgment of the department of health and senior services, the assistance ofthis officer is necessary.

(RSMo 1939 § 14193, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1070)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 12522; 1919 § 12081; 1909 § 710