State Quarantine Officer’s power to proclaim and enforce quarantine.

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The State Quarantine Officer may proclaim and enforce a quarantine against any county or portion of any county, farm, nursery or apiary within this State, relating to the exportation from the county, farm, nursery or apiary to any other portion of the State, of any agricultural commodity that:

1. Is infected with, or which may have been exposed to, an infectious, contagious or destructive disease or infested with a parasite, noxious weed, weed seed, propagating part of a plant, or vertebrate or invertebrate pest, or the eggs or larvae thereof; and

2. Is dangerous to:

(a) The public health or quality of any water in this State; or

(b) Any wildlife, beneficial use of land in or industry of this State.

[Part 1:280:1913; 1919 RL p. 2625; NCL § 436] — (NRS A 1961, 517; 2001, 697)


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