54-785 Purpose of act. - Nebraska Statutes

54-785. Purpose of act.The purpose of the Animal Importation Act shall be to protect the health of animals in Nebraska by regulating or prohibiting certain activities relating to the importation of animals into Nebraska. Such regulations and prohibitions are controls which are essential to the prevention of the transference into this state of dangerous, infectious, contagious, or otherwise transmissible diseases among animals. The methods provided for in the act are in accordance with the purpose and intent of sections 54-701 to 54-705. SourceLaws 1975, LB 321, § 5; Laws 1992, LB 366, § 7; Laws 2003, LB 160, § 1.