§ 25-307 — QUARANTINE WHEN OWNER REFUSES TO PERMIT TEST

The director of the department or administrator of the Idaho division of animal industries, or any deputy of such division, shall have the power to place any cattle, other bovidae, captive cervidae, captive antilocapridae or camelidae under quarantine when any owner or caretaker of such animals shall refuse to permit the tuberculin or other approved tuberculosis test to be applied to such animals in the manner provided in sections 25-301 through 25-306, Idaho Code. The notice of quarantine shall be in writing and any animals described therein shall not be transported or moved in any manner from the premises described in the quarantine notice. It shall be unlawful to sell, give away, offer for sale or transport any milk, milk products, or other products produced from the cattle, other bovidae, captive cervidae, captive antilocapridae or camelidae described in such notice of quarantine. Such administrator or his deputy shall furnish one (1) copy of the quarantine notice to the owner or caretaker of the cattle, other bovidae, captive cervidae, captive antilocapridae or camelidae; the original of which notice shall be placed in the hands of the sheriff of the county in which such cattle, other bovidae, captive cervidae, captive antilocapridae or camelidae are situated, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to enforce the quarantine in accordance with such notice. The quarantine shall be removed whenever a satisfactory test has been made of the cattle, other bovidae, captive cervidae, captive antilocapridae or camelidae described in said notice.

Legislative History

[(25-307) 1927, ch. 56, sec. 1, p. 69; I.C.A., sec. 24-307; am. 1974, ch. 18, sec. 132, p. 364; am. 1993, ch. 15, sec. 6, p. 57.]