1. The State Quarantine Officer may order and have destroyed any animal infected with or exposed to any infectious, contagious or parasitic disease.

2. If the State Quarantine Officer deems it necessary to destroy any infected or exposed livestock in order to prevent the spread of an infectious, contagious or parasitic disease which, according to the rules, regulations and standards adopted by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, cannot be extirpated by means other than destroying the infected or exposed livestock, the State Quarantine Officer may have the livestock destroyed and burned, buried or otherwise disposed of in any manner specified by the Department.

3. The State Board of Agriculture shall enter into an agreement with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture or take any other action required to determine the amount of compensation owed, if any, to the owner of any livestock destroyed pursuant to subsection 2 and the party responsible for paying such compensation.

4. Any natural person or corporation purchasing any animal which was at the time of purchase under quarantine by any state, county or municipal authorities or any agency of the Federal Government authorized to lay such quarantine, or who purchases any animal which due diligence and caution would have shown to be diseased or which was shipped or transported in violation of the rules and regulations of any agency of the Federal Government or the State of Nevada, is not entitled to receive compensation, and the Department may order the destruction of the animal without making any compensation to the owner.

(Added to NRS by 1961, 510; A 1993, 1748; 1999, 3687; 2003, 2160; 2015, 368)