Minnesota Session Laws - 1985, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1985 

                        CHAPTER 100-S.F.No. 335 
           An act relating to animals; changing certain duties 
          and powers of the board of animal health; amending 
          Minnesota Statutes 1984, sections 35.03; 35.05; and 
          35.069. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1984, section 35.03, is 
amended to read:  
    35.03 [POWERS, DUTIES, AND REPORTS.] 
    The board shall protect the health of the domestic animals 
of the state, and carry out the provisions of this chapter; 
making rules it may deem expedient to that end.  It.  The board 
shall make rules necessary to protect the health of domestic 
animals.  The board shall hold meet at least quarterly meetings 
at the seat of government on the first Friday after the second 
Tuesday in January, April, July and October.  Officers shall be 
elected at the each April meeting.  On or before October 
November 1 of each year the board shall issue an annual report 
which shall be published. 
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1984, section 35.05, is amended 
to read: 
    35.05 [AUTHORITY OF STATE BOARD.] 
    The state board may quarantine or kill any domestic animal 
infected with, or which has been exposed to, any contagious and 
or infectious dangerous disease if it is necessary to protect 
the health of the domestic animals of the state.  The board may 
regulate or prohibit the arrival in, and departure from, the 
state of animals so infected or exposed, and, in case of 
violation of any rule or prohibition, may detain any animal at 
its owner's cost.  The board may regulate or prohibit the 
bringing of domestic animals into the state which, in its 
opinion, for any reason, may injure the health of live stock 
therein.  All rules adopted by the board under authority of this 
chapter shall be published in the state register. 
    Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1984, section 35.069, is 
amended to read: 
    35.069 [PENALTY.] 
    Any person removing violating any animal or any poultry 
while subject to quarantine, as provided in sections imposed 
under section 35.05 or 35.063 and 35.065, in violation of the 
provisions thereof, shall be or any rule adopted by the board is 
guilty of a misdemeanor. 
    Approved May 10, 1985