NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 676

HOUSE BILL 1036

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONTROL OF DISEASED ANIMALS FOUND RUNNING AT LARGE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Part 1 of Article 34 of Chapter 106 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section at the end thereof to read as follows:

"§ 106-307.7.  Diseased livestock running at large. — Whenever the State Veterinarian is informed or reasonably believes that certain livestock is infected with or has been exposed to any contagious or infectious disease, that such livestock is running at large and that such livestock cannot be captured with the exercise of reasonable diligence, the State Veterinarian shall have authority to direct the appropriate sheriff or other proper officer to destroy such livestock in a reasonable manner and such sheriff or other officer shall make diligent effort to destroy such livestock."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1971.