The board may accept on behalf of the state the rules and regulations prepared by the secretary of the United States department of agriculture relating to the control of diseases of livestock and to cooperate with the authorities of the United States in the enforcement of the provisions of all acts and regulations relating to diseased livestock.
History: Laws 1909, ch. 9, § 4; Code 1915, § 109; C.S. 1929, § 4-1012; Laws 1933, ch. 53, § 12; 1941 Comp., § 49-309; 1953 Comp., § 47-3-9; Laws 1993, ch. 248, § 22; 1999, ch. 282, § 24.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1999 amendment, effective July 1, 1999, substituted "relating to the control of diseases of livestock" for "under and in pursuance of Section 3 of an act of congress, approved May 29, 1884, which stated 'An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry for the extirpation of diseased cattle and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals"', and made stylistic changes.
The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, added the current catchline; deleted "Cattle Sanitary" preceding "board"; inserted "the United States department of"; and substituted "which stated" for "entitled".