NRS 573.130 - Regulation of sales of livestock under quarantine or infected or exposed to contagious, infectious or parasitic livestock disease; testing, treating and examination of livestock.

NV Rev Stat § 573.130 (2019) (N/A)

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1. Livestock that is under quarantine because of any contagious, infectious or communicable disease must not be consigned to or sold through any public livestock auction or annual sale of livestock.

2. Livestock that is known to be infected with, or known to have been exposed to, any contagious, infectious or parasitic livestock disease must not be consigned to or sold through any public livestock auction or annual sale of livestock except under rules and regulations governing the consignments and sales adopted by the Department.

3. The Department may require such testing, treating and examining of livestock sold, traded, exchanged or handled at or through public livestock auctions or annual sales of livestock as in its judgment may be necessary to prevent the spread of infectious, contagious or parasitic diseases among the livestock of this state.

4. The Department may require operators of public livestock auctions or persons who conduct annual sales of livestock to reimburse the Department for actual expenses or any part thereof incurred in testing, treating and examining livestock sold, traded, exchanged or handled at or through those auctions.

[Part 8:78:1947; A 1949, 550; 1943 NCL § 3825.08] — (NRS A 1961, 554; 1993, 1757; 1999, 3696; 2019, 2612)

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