STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA 
LAWS and REGULATIONS 
Pertaining to 
Livestock Sanitary 
Control Work 
Issued by 
NORTH DAKOTA 
LIVESTOCK SANITARY BOARD 
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA 
1945 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA 
iAWS and REGULATIONS 
Pertaining to 
Livestock Sanitary 
Control Work 
Issued by 
NORTH DAKOTA 
LIVESTOCK SANITARY BOARD 
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA 
1945 
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LIVESTOCK SANITARY BOARD 
Dr. J. W. Robinson, President Garrison 
John Dawson, Vice President Mandan 
Dr. J. F. Hinz, Secretary Lidgerwood 
Harrison A- Thexton St. Thomas 
M. D. Graham Minot 
D. F. Eveleth, Acting Bacteriologist and 
Consulting Veterinarian, State College 
Station Fargo 
Dr. T. O. Brandenburg, Executive Officer 
and State Veterinarian Bismarck NORTH DAKOTA 
LAWS 
PERTAINING TO 
LIVESTOCK SANITARY CONTROL 
WORK 36-0101. State Livestock Sanitary Board: How 
Constituted; Terms and Qualifications of Mem- 
bers. The State Livestock Sanitary Board 
shall consist of five members appointed by the 
governor for terms of five years each with their 
terms of office so arranged that one term, and 
only one, shall expire on the first day of April 
in each year. Members of the board shall hold 
their respective offices until their successors are 
appointed and qualified. Each member of such 
board shall be a qualified elector of this state. 
Three members of the board shall be persons 
who are financially interested in the breeding 
and maintenance of livestock in this state, and 
the other two members shall be competent vet- 
erinarians who are graduates of a veterinary 
course in a recognized college or university. 
Each member of the board, immediately after 
his appointment, shall take the oath of office 
required of civil officers. 
36-0102. Meetings of Board: Limitations on 
Number; Special. The State Livestock Sanitary 
Board shall hold its meetings at the state capitol 
at such times as it may designate, but there 
shall not be more than four regular meetings in 
any one year. The president of the board may 
call a special meeting whenever in his judgment 
it becomes necessary. 
36-0103. Officers of Board; Election; Quali- 
fications of Executive Officer. The State Live- 
stock Sanitary Board shall elect a president and 
a secretary from among its members and an 
executive officer who shall not be a member 
of the board. The executive officer shall be a 
competent and skilled veterinarian and shall be 
a graduate of the course in veterinary medicine 
and surgery offered by a recognized college or 
university. 
36-0104. Compensation and Expenses of Mem- 
bers of Board. Each member of the State Live- 
stock Sanitary Board shall receive as compensa- 
tion for his services the sum of four dollars per 
day for each day employed and his actual ex- 
penses incurred in attending the meetings of 
the board. Such sum shall be paid out of the 
state treasury upon vouchers of the board duly 
certified by the president and secretary thereof. 
36-0105. Executive Officer: Salary; Bond. The 
executive officer of the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board shall receive for his services such annual 
salary as shall be provided in the general appro- 
priation bill, and the payment of such salary 
shall be made from moneys appropriated for 
that purpose. Before entering upon the discharge 
of his duties, the executive officer shall give a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars to the 
state of North Dakota conditioned for the proper 
discharge of his duties and shall take the oath 
of office required of civil officers. He shall 
receive the actual expenses ineurred and paid 
by him in the discharge of his duties which 
shall be paid out of the fund appropriated for 
that purpose. 
36-0106. Executive Officer to Act as State 
Veterinarian; Duties. The executive officer of 
the State Livestock Sanitary Board shall act as 
the State Veterinarian and he shall: 
1. Ascertain, by personal examination or 
through reports from other accredited re- 
presentatives of the board, all information 
- which he can obtain regarding the exis- 
tence of contagious, infectious and epidemic 
diseases of animals; 
2. Execute all orders, rules and regulations 
made by the board; and 
3. Present at the quarterly meetings thereof 
a detailed report of all matters connected 
with the work done by him or by his sub- 
ordinates during the quarter preceding said 
meeting. 
36-0107. Bacteriologist and Consulting Veteri- 
narian of Board: Duties; Compensation. The 
professor of Veterinary Science of the agricultural 
college shall act as Bacteriologist and Consulting 
Veterinarian to the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board. He shall make bacteriological or patholog- 
ical examinations of all diseased animals or por- 
tions thereof, or of such material as may be for- 
warded to him by the board or its duly authorized 
agents. He shall furnish material for the diagno- 
sis of contagious diseases .and instruction as to 
its use. For his services, the bacteriologist shall 
receive such compensation as the board may 
deem proper, which shall be paid out of the 
fund appropriated for the use of the board. 
36-0108. Duties of Board; May Make Rules 
and Regulations. The State Livestock Sanitary 
Board shall protect the health of the domestic 
animals of this state and shall determine and 
employ the most efficient and practical means 
for the prevention, suppression, control and 
eradication of dangerous, contagious and infec- 
tious diseases among the domestic animals of 
this state. The board may make rules and regu- 
lations for the conduct of its business and to 
carry into effect the purposes of this chapter. 
36-0109. How Regulations Made. The regula- 
tions of the State Livestock Sanitary Board shall be made in accordance with the provisions of 
chapter 32 of the title Judicial Procedure, Civil. 
Source: Chapter 240, pp. 393, S.L. 1941 
36-0110. Agents and Assistants May Be Em- 
ployed by Board; Granting of Authority to 
United States Government Inspectors. The State 
Livestock Sanitary Board may employ such offi- 
cers, agents or assistants as it may deem neces- 
sary to carry out the purposes of this chapter 
at a compensation to be fixed by the board 
within the limits of appropriations made to the 
board by the legislative assembly. The board 
may grant to the inspectors of the United States 
Department of Agriculture the same authority as 
is possessed by agents of the board and when 
such inspectors are engaged in work by the 
direction or at the request of the board, they 
shall not receive compensation from the state 
or be required to give bond thereto. 
36-0111. Reports of Board. On or before the 
first day of December in each year, the State 
Livestock Sanitary Board shall make a report to 
the governor of its proceedings and transactions 
during the preceding year. In each even num- 
bered year, the report for such year and for the 
preceding year shall be printed. 
36-0112. Powers of Board Over Contagious 
and Infectious Diseases. The State Livestock San- 
itary Board may take such steps as it may deem 
necessary to control, supress and eradicate any 
and all contagious and infectious diseases among 
any of the domestic animals of this state. For 
this purpose, the board may quarantine any 
domestic animal which is infected with any such 
disease or which has been exposed to infection 
therefrom, cause any animal so infected to be 
killed, regulate or prohibit the arrival in or 
departure from this state of any such exposed or 
infected animal and at the cost of the owner 
thereof, it may detain any domestic animal found 
to be in violation of any such regulation or pro- 
hibition. 
36-0113. Diseased Animal To Be Reported to 
Board. Any person who shall discover, suspect 
or have reason to believe that any domestic 
animal belonging to him or in his charge or be- 
longing to any other person is affected by any 
contagious disease shall report such knowledge, 
suspicion or belief to: 
1. The State Livestock Sanitary Board or to a 
member or representative thereof; or 
2. The clerk of the township in which such 
animal is present, or to a supervisor of such township if the clerk cannot be found. If 
a report is made to an officer under this 
sub-section, such officer shall report the 
facts immediately to the State Livestock 
Sanitary Board and his failure to do so 
shall constitute a violation of the provisions 
of this chapter. 
36-0114. Protest Against Killing of Diseased 
Animal: Examination of Animal by Experts; Ap- 
pointment of Experts. Whenever a domestic ani- 
mal has been adjudged to be affected with a 
contagious or infectious disease and has been 
ordered killed by the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board or by an accredited agent thereof, the 
owner or keeper of said animal shall be notified 
of the order. Within twenty-four hours after re- 
ceiving such notice, such owner or keeper may 
file a protest against the killing of such animal 
with said board or with its accredited agent who 
has ordered the animal killed. Such protest 
shall state under oath that to the best of the 
knowledge and belief of the person making the 
same such animal is not infected with any 
contagious or infectious disease. An examination 
of the animal involved then shall be made by 
three experts one of whom shall be appointed 
by the board, one by the person making the 
protest, and the third by the two thus appointed. 
All such experts shall be persons learned in vet- 
erinary medicine and surgery and graduates of 
the veterinary course of a recognized college or 
university. 
36-0115. Expense of Experts; How Paid. If at 
least two of the experts shall declare that the 
animal involved is free from any contagious or 
infectious disease, the expense of the consulta- 
tion shall be paid by the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board. If at least two of such experts shall de- 
clare that such animal is affected with a conta- 
gious or infectious disease, the expenses incurred 
in the consultation shall be paid by the person 
making the protest. 
36-0116. Carcass of Diseased Animal: How 
Disposed of. The owner or keeper of any animal 
killed by order of the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board shall dispose of the carcass of the animal 
in the. manner prescribed by the board. If the 
owner or keeper of an animal killed as aforesaid 
is unknown, the carcass shall be disposed of at 
the expense of the county in which the carcass 
is located. 
36-0117. Board Members and Agents To Have 
Same Powers as Justice of Peace in Examina- 
tions; When. The State Livestock Sanitary Board 
and any member or duly authorized agent there- of, may examine or cause to be examined under 
oath all persons believed to possess knowledge 
of material facts concerning the existence or dis- 
semination, or the danger of dissemination, of 
disease among domestic animals. For this pur- 
pose, the board and any member or authorized 
agent thereof, shall have all the powers vested 
by this code in justices of the peace to take 
depositions, to compel witnesses to attend and 
testify and to administer oaths. Such witnesses 
shall receive the same fees for attendance and 
travel as witnesses before the district courts, 
and said fees shall be paid by the board from 
moneys appropriated to it. 
36-0118. Execution of Orders of Board by 
Peace Officers; Powers of Officers. The State 
Livestock Sanitary Board may call any sheriff, 
deputy sheriff or constable to execute its orders 
and such officers shall obey the orders of said 
board. Any peace officer may arrest and take 
before any justice of the peace of the county 
any person found violating any of the provisions 
of this chapter and such officers shall notify 
the state’s attorney immediately of such arrest 
and the state’s attorney shall prosecute the per- 
son so offending. 
36-0119. Emergency Fund in Case of Epidemic. 
In case of any serious outbreak of any conta- 
gious, infectious or epidemic diseases among 
domestic animals which cannot be controlled 
with the funds at the disposal of the State 
Livestock Sanitary Board the board shall notify 
the governor at once and the governor there- 
upon shall call a meeting of the Emergency 
Commission, and such commission may authorize 
money to be drawn from the state treasury to 
meet the emergency. 
36-0120. Penalty for Violation of Chapter. 
Any person violating any of the provisions of 
this chapter or of any rule or regulation made 
by the State Livestock Sanitary Board is guilty of 
a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine 
of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more 
than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment 
for not less than thirty days nor more than 
ninety days. 
36-1401. Sale or Gift of Animal Infected With 
Contagious or Infectious Diseases Prohibited; Ex- 
ception; Notice. No person shall sell, give away 
or in any manner part with any animal infected 
with or suspected of being infected with any 
contagious or infectious disease, except as may be 
provided otherwise by the rules and regulations 
of the State Livestock Sanitary Board. If any 
animal is known to have been infected with or exposed to any such disease within one year 
prior to such disposal, due notice of such fact 
shall be given in writing to the person receiving 
the animal. 
36-1402. Killing of Infected Animal for Hu- 
man Consumption Prohibited; Exception; Stamp- 
ing of Infected Meat. No person shall kill for 
human consumption any animal infected, or 
suspected of being infected with any contagious 
or infectious disease, nor shall he sell, give 
away or use any part of such animal or its 
milk, nor remove any part of its skin, except as 
the State Livestock Sanitary Board may provide 
by rules and regulations. When it is lawful under 
the rules and regulations made by the State 
Livestock Sanitary Board to sell, barter or give 
away for human consumption the meat from any 
animal infected with a contagious or infectious 
disease, each quarter of meat shall be stamped 
or labeled in at least ten separate places with 
the words “infected meat.” No meat from any 
infected or diseased animal shall be placed upon 
the block or table on which uninfected meat is 
handled. The provisions of this section shall not 
apply to industries which are under the super- 
vision of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture, Bureau of Animal Industry. 
36-1403. Animals Infected With Contagious or 
Infectious Disease To Be Confined and Isolated 
From Other Animals. The owner, agent or per- 
son having in charge any animal infected or 
suspected of being infected with any contagious 
disease shall confine the animal immediately in 
a safe place isolated from all other animals with 
all necessary restrictions to prevent the dissemi- 
nation of the disease until the arrival of an 
accredited agent of the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board. 
36-1404. Horses, Mules and Asses Imported 
Into State To Have Certificate of Health. Each 
horse, mule and ass brought into this state shall 
be accompanied by a health certificate certifying 
that such animal has been examined within 
thirty days previous to the shipment and found 
to be free from all contagious and infectious 
diseases. In addition, any stallion brought into 
this state shall be accompanied by a certificate 
of health certifying that it is free from all the 
diseases and unsoundness specified in section 
36-0308. 
36-1405. Cattle Brought Into State; Certificate 
of Health Required. All cattle brought into this 
state for dairy, breeding and feeding purposes 
shall be accompanied by a certificate of health 
certifying that such animals are free from symp- toms of contagious, infectious or communicable 
disease. All cattle over six months of age which 
can be used for dairy or breeding purposes shall 
be accompanied also by a tuberculin test chart 
stating that all such animals have been tuber- 
culin tested and found to be free from tubercu- 
losis. 
36-1406. Certificate of Health Required for 
Sheep Imported Into State; Contents. All sheep 
brought into this state shall be accompanied by 
a certificate of health specifically stating that 
they are free from scabies and lip and leg ul- 
ceration and have not been exposed thereto 
within thirty days prior to shipment and that 
they are free from any indications of any con- 
tagious or infectious diseases. 
36-1407. Swine Brought Into State To Have 
Certificate of Health; Contents. All swine 
brought into this state shall be accompanied by 
a certificate of health stating that no infectious 
swine disease exists or has existed in the locality 
where the shipment originated and from which 
the swine came within a period of six months 
prior to the date of the shipment. If such swine 
are certified by an accredited federal or graduate 
veterinarian to have been immunized with a 
protective dose of hog cholera serum prepared or 
approved by the United States Department of 
Agriculture not more than fifteen days prior to 
the date of importation, such swine shall be ad- 
mitted upon such certificate. 
36-1408. Immunization of Swine To Be Ex- 
hibited at Fairs. All swine which are to be 
exhibited at any state or county fair in this 
state shall be immunized not more than fifteen 
days prior to such exhibition by the use of a 
protective dose of hog cholera serum prepared 
or approved by the United States Department of 
Agriculture. The required amount of serum shall 
be furnished free of charge to prospective ex- 
hibitors from this state upon application to the 
State Livestock Sanitary Board. 
36-1409. Hog Cholera Virus: Purchase and Use 
Restricted; Misdemeanor. The purchase or 
possession for use of hog cholera virus by any 
person who is not either a farmer who is an 
owner and breeder of hogs or a licensed veteri- 
narian is prohibited and a farmer who is author- 
ized to possess such virus under the provisions 
of this section shall not administer the same 
except to hogs owned by him. No person shall 
scatter, or place or leave exposed any hog 
cholera virus or any bottle or container thereof, 
in any manner which may result in the spread 
of hog cholera, in the infection of any animal not treated for such disease or in the contami- 
nation of any well, stream or body of water 
or of any land or premises with such virus or 
disease germs. 
36-1410. Shipments of Cattle, Swine or Sheep 
for Immediate Slaughter. Shipments into this 
state of cattle, swine and sheep for immediate 
slaughter shall be permitted without a health 
certificate only if such livestock enters this state 
at a point where inspection is maintained by 
federal or state authorities and only if such 
livestock is inspected by federal or state authori- 
ties at such point. 
36-1411. Certificates of Health Issued by 
Whom; Tests Made by Whom; Regulations Gov- 
erning. All certificates of health required under 
the provisions of this chapter shall be issued, and 
all tests shall be made by a federal or state 
veterinarian or a deputy state veterinarian, or 
by a graduate veterinarian whose inspections and 
tests are endorsed by the officer in charge of 
the livestock sanitary work in the state where 
the inspection or test is made, and subject to 
the regulations of the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board. All such tests must conform to the stand- 
ard tests of the United States Department of 
Agriculture. All serums used shall be manufac- 
tured or approved by the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 
36-1412. Regulations Governing the Issuance 
of Certificates. The certificate certifying to a 
test made under the provisions of this chapter 
shall be made on official federal or state blanks 
and shall accompany the shipment to its destina- 
tion. When an original certificate is made, three 
copies, thereof shall be mailed immediately to 
the State Livestock Sanitary Board. The failure of 
a veterinarian to mail such copies of each cer- 
tificate relating to livestock to be shipped into 
this state to the board shall be sufficient cause 
to refuse acceptance of any more certificates 
from such person. The owner or owners of the 
livestock shall have a copy of the certificate to 
show on the demand of any federal or state 
official. 
36-1413. Issuance of Health Certificates by 
Unauthorized Persons; Penalty. Any person who 
issues a health certificate for livestock within 
this state without being authorized so to do by 
the State Livestock Sanitary Board or by the 
United States Department of Agriculture is 
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished 
by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars 
nor more than one hundred dollars or by im- prisonment in the county jail for not less than 
ten days nor more than thirty days. 
36-1414. Certificate of Health Required on 
Sale of Purebred Cattle and Nonregistered Bulls 
for Breeding Purposes. Before any person shall 
make delivery of any purebred cow or heifer 
or nonregistered bull over six months of age 
which has been, or is to be, sold for any purpose 
except slaughter, he shall notify the State Live- 
stock Sanitary Board of the number of such 
animals he has sold or intends to sell and shall 
report the purebred name and registry number 
and the age and sex of each such animal. Any 
such animal which does not come from a nega- 
tive herd in a modified accredited tuberculosis 
free county shall be tested with tuberculin under 
the direction of the board or by some person 
authorized by the board to make such tests. The 
board shall issue a certificate of health for each 
such animal which it finds to be free from 
disease, which certificate shall be valid for one 
year from the date of its issue, and the owner 
of the animal shall deliver the certificate to the 
purchaser thereof. 
36-1415. Duty of State’s Attorney To Bring 
Actions for Violation of Provisions of Chapter; 
Notice. If livestock is brought into this state in 
violation of any provision of this chapter or con- 
trary to any rule or regulation of the State 
Livestock Sanitary Board, the State Veterinarian 
or other accredited agent of the board shall noti- 
fy the State’s Attorney of the county into which 
such livestock has been brought. Immediately 
upon receiving such a notice, the State’s Attor- 
ney shall bring an action against any person, 
firm or corporation charged with bringing, trans- 
porting or importing livestock contrary to any 
provision of this chapter or of any rule or regu- 
lation of the State Livestock Sanitary Board. 
36-1416. Failure to Restrain Infected Sheep a 
Misdemeanor. Every person who owns or has 
in charge any sheep infected with scab or other 
infectious or contagious disease and who: 
1. Does not keep such sheep securely within 
some enclosure; or 
2. Drives or permits any such sheep to be 
driven upon any public highway, or within 
the distance of one mile from any such 
highway, or within the distance of six 
miles from any farm, corral, shed or other 
established headquarters where sheep are 
kept or herded, 
is guilty of a misdemeanor. 
36-1417. Refusing to Allow Examination of 
Sheep Is Misdemeanor. Every person who is in charge of any band of sheep that is being 
driven or kept within six miles of the head- 
quarters where sheep belonging to any other 
person are kept or corralled and who fails, 
neglects or refuses upon demand by such other 
person or anyone in his employ, to stop such 
band and allow it to be examined, or to aid and 
assist in catching and examining the sheep 
therein, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 
36-1418, Willfully Spreading Infection of Sheep 
Is a Felony; Penalty. Every person who will- 
fully, either: 
1. Carries or drives, or causes to be carried 
or driven, any sheep infected with scabies 
or any other infectious or contagious disease 
among sheep belonging to another; or 
2. Carries or places, or causes to be carried 
or placed, the parasite which causes such 
disease where sheep not his own are being 
herded or corralled with intent that such 
sheep shall become infected thereby, 
is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by 
imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less 
than one year nor more than five years, or by 
a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, or by 
both such fine and imprisonment. 
36-1419. Disposition of Carcasses of Animals 
Dying From Contagious or Infectious Disease. 
Any animal which is found dead shall be 
presumed to have died from a contagious or 
infectious disease until the contrary is shown 
unless another cause of death is apparent. The 
owner or person in charge of any domestic 
animal which dies within this state from or on 
account of any contagious or infectious disease 
shall dispose of the carcass of such animal as 
follows: 
1. If the animal died of anthrax, as deter- 
mined by an agent of the State Livestock 
Sanitary Board, the carcass shall be com- 
pletely burned at the place where it died 
if possible. If the carcass must be moved, 
it shall not be. dragged over the ground 
but shall be moved only on a suitable con- 
veyor and all body openings in the car- 
cass must be plugged with cotton saturated 
with a strong antiseptic solution; 
2. If the carcass is of a hog which died from 
hog cholera or swine erysipelas, the same, 
with hide intact, must be burned within 
thirty-six hours or given to a licensed 
rendering plant within such time; 
3. If the carcass is of an animal which has 
died of a disease other than is specified in 
subsections 1 and 2 of this section, it shall 
be burned, buried, or given to a licensed rendering plant within thirty-six hours. If 
the carcass is buried, it shall be buried not 
less than four feet below the surface of 
the ground and covered with dirt to that 
depth. No carcass shall be disposed of 
along any public highway or along any 
stream, lake or river nor be buried near or 
adjoining any such place. 
36-1420. Duty of Overseer of Highways or 
Coroner When Carcasses of Dead Animals Are 
Found; Fees; Recovery of Expense. If the owner 
or person in charge of a dead animal shall fail 
to comply with the provisions of section 36-1419, 
the overseer of highways or the county coroner 
in a district which has no overseer, shall cause 
such section to be complied with. If burial of 
the animal is permitted, such burial may be 
made upon the premises of the owner or person 
in charge thereof at any place more than one 
thousand feet from any dwelling house or barn. 
The Board of County Commissioners shall allow 
such sums for such services as it shall deem to 
be reasonable and the same shall be paid as 
other moneys are paid for services rendered to 
the county. The owner of the animal shall be 
liable to the county for any amount paid out 
for such services and if the owner does not 
pay such amount within thirty days after written 
demand therefor is made upon him by the 
county auditor, the same may be recovered in 
a civil action and the judgment shall include 
the costs of the suit and a reasonable attorney’s 
fee, not exceeding twenty-five dollars, to be 
fixed by the court. No property except absolute 
exemptions shall be exempt from sale for the 
payment of any such judgment. Any attorney’s 
fee allowed by the court shall be paid to the 
county if the action is brought by the State’s 
Attorney. 
36-1421. Penalty for Violating Provisions of 
Chapter. Any person, firm or corporation who 
Shall bring, convey, carry or transport live- 
stock into or in this state in violation of any 
provision of this chapter or in violation of any 
rule or regulation of the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board, or who shall violate any provision of this 
chapter for which another penalty is not pro- 
vided, or who shall fail to observe anv of the 
provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of 
not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than 
five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the 
county iail for not less than thirty days nor more 
than ninety days. 
36-1422. Civil Action for Damages. Every 
person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be liable in a civil action to any 
person injured by such violation for all damages 
directly or indirectly suffered thereby. 
36-1501. Definitions. In this chapter, unless 
the context or subject matter otherwise requires: 
1. “Animals” shall mean meat cattle; 
2. “Board” shall mean the State Livestock 
Sanitary Board; 
3. “Diseased,” when used to describe any ani- 
mals, shall mean animals infected with 
either bovine tuberculosis or Bang’s disease; 
and 
4. The singular of any term shall import the 
plural and the plural of any term shall 
include the singular. 
36-1502. Notice of Condemnation of Diseased 
Animal. Whenever any animal has been ad- 
judged by the board to be infected with bovine 
tuberculosis or Bang’s disease, such board or its 
authorized agent shall serve a written notice of 
its decision upon the owner or keeper of the 
animal before the condemned animal is killed. 
Such notice shall advise the owner or keeper 
of his right to protest against the diagnosis and 
determination of the board within twenty-four 
hours after the service of the notice upon him. 
If no protest is made within such time by the 
owner or keeper of the condemned animal, it 
shall be appraised in the manner provided in 
this chapter. 
36-1503. Animal Condemned as Diseased To 
Be Appraised by Board; Notice to Owner, When- 
ever any animal has been adjudged to be dis- 
eased and ordered killed by the board, the 
board or its authorized agent, within twenty-four 
hours after the entry of such order and before 
the animal has been killed pursuant thereto, 
shall determine the actual value of the same. 
Notice of the appraisal shall be given to the 
owner or keeper of the animal. 
36-1504. Protest of Board’s Appraisal; Board 
of Appraisers Appointed; Appraisal To Be Final. 
If the owner of any animal which is condemned 
to be killed under the provisions of this chapter, 
or his agent, is not satisfied with the appraisal 
by the board or its agents, he may protest 
against the same and a board of three appraisers 
shall then be formed. One member of the board 
of appraisers shall be the agent of the board, one 
member shall be selected by the owner of the 
animal involved and the third member shall be 
selected by the first two members. An appraisal 
of the animal shall be made by the board of 
appraisers according to section 36-1505 and if two or more of the appraisers agree upon a cer- 
tain valuation, such appraisal shall be final. 
36-1505. Maximum Valuations of Diseased 
Animals. The appraised value of diseased ani- 
mals shall not exceed the following amounts: 
1. A grade animal under two years of age 
shall not be valued at more than forty 
dollars; 
2. A grade animal two years of age or over 
shall not be valued at more than eighty 
dollars; 
3. A purebred animal under two years of age 
shall not be valued at more than seventy- 
five dollars; and 
4. A purebred animal two years of age or 
over shall not be valued at more than one 
hundred fifty dollars. 
Before any animal can be appraised as a pure- 
bred animal, it must be accompanied by a certi- 
ficate of registration in a recognized herd book. 
36-1506. Fees of Appraisers; How Paid. Each 
member of the board of appraisers who is not 
connected with the board shall be entitled to one 
dollar per day for his services. Such compensa- 
tion shall be paid out of the fund created for 
the purpose of carrying out the provisions of 
this chapter upon presentation of vouchers to 
the state auditor duly approved by the board. 
36-1507. Owner of Condemned Animal May 
Protest Diagnosis of Board. Within twenty-four 
hours after receipt of the notice of the deter- 
mination of the board or its authorized agent 
that an animal is diseased and ordered killed, 
the owner of the animal or his agent may file 
a protest against the diagnosis of the board. Any 
person filing such protest shall be entitled to a 
consultation in accordance with the provisions 
of sections 36-0114 and 36-0115. 
36-1508. Owner Entitled to Compensation for 
Animal Infected With Tuberculosis or With 
Bang’s Disease; Livestock Sanitary Board May 
Make Regulations Governing Payments. The 
owner of an animal adjudged by the board to 
be infected with tuberculosis or with Bang’s 
disease and appraised in accordance with the 
provisions of this chapter shall be entitled to 
the amount specified in this chapter. The board 
may make reasonable rules and regulations gov- 
erning the payment of such compensation within 
the limitations prescribed in this chapter. 
36-1509. Return of Appraisement; Payment of 
Claims for Diseased Animals. The return of an 
appraisement made under the provisions of this chapter shall be in writing and signed by the 
board or by the agent thereof which made the 
appraisement or by the members of the board 
of appraisers if a reappraisement is made after 
a protest and by the owner of the condemned 
animal. The return shall be certified by the Exec- 
utive Officer of the board to the State Auditor 
who shall draw a warrant upon the State Treas- 
urer in favor of the owner of the animal. The 
amount of indemnity paid by this state, however, 
shall not exceed: 
1. In the case of an animal condemned because 
it is infected with tuberculosis, one-third of 
the difference between the appraised value 
of the animal and the net value of the 
salvage received by the owner unless the 
federal government fails to provide an 
amount of indemnity equal to that provided 
by the state, in which case, the owner shall 
be paid one-half of the difference between 
the appraised value of the animal and the 
net value of the salvage thereof; 
2. In the case of an animal condemned be- 
cause it is infected with Bang’s disease, one- 
third of the difference between the ap- 
praised value of the animal and the net 
value of the salvage received by the owner, 
but not to exceed nine dollars for a grade 
animal nor fifteen dollars for a purebred 
animal unless the federal government fails 
to provide an amount of indemnity equal 
to that provided by the state, in which 
case, the owner shall be paid one-half of 
the difference between the appraised value 
of the animal and the net value of the 
salvage thereof, but not to exceed fourteen 
dollars for a grade animal nor twenty- 
three dollars for a purebred animal. 
This state shall not be liable for indemnity 
under the provisions of this chapter in excess of 
the amount appropriated for the payment of 
such indemnity by the legislative assembly and 
shall not be liable for indemnity for any animal 
killed during a biennium after the appropriation 
for such biennium has been exhausted. 
36-1510. Salvage To Be Deducted From 
Amount Paid to Owner of Condemned Animal. 
Any money realized from the sale of the whole 
or any part of a diseased animal killed under 
the provisions of this chapter may be paid to 
the owner of the condemned animal and the 
amount thereof deducted from the appraised 
value of such animal. 
36-1511. Owner of Diseased Animals May Not 
Be Indemnified; When. The right of the owner 
of a diseased animal to be indemnified shall not exist and payment shall not be made in the 
following cases: 
1. For an animal belonging to the United 
States or to this state or to any county, 
city, township, or village in this state; 
2. When the owner at the time of coming into 
possession of the animal knew or suspected 
it to be diseased; 
3. For an animal found to have been diseased 
at the time of its arrival in this state; 
4. When the owner is a nonresident and not 
engaged in the breeding of livestock in 
this state; 
5. When the animal at the time of its killing 
had been in this state for less than six 
months; 
6. When the owner of an animal which was 
killed because of infection with tuberculosis 
shall have been guilty of negligence by 
willfully exposing his animal to the infec- 
tion of such disease; or 
7. When the owner of an animal which was 
killed because of infection with Bang’s 
disease shall have been guilty of negligence 
by willfully exposing his animal to Bang’s 
disease or if he previously has injected live 
Bang’s disease organisms into his cattle in 
the form of so-called Bang’s disease vac- 
cines. 
36-1512. Bovine Tuberculosis Fund and Bang’s 
Disease Fund To Be Maintained. There shall be 
maintained in the office of the State Treasurer: 
1. A bovine tuberculosis fund; and 
2. A Bang’s disease fund 
for the purpose of carrying out the provisions 
of this chapter. Such funds shall consist respec- 
tively of the moneys appropriated thereto from 
time to time by the legislative assembly. 
36-1513. Testing of Cattle in Township for 
Bovine Tuberculosis and for Bang’s Disease; Pe- 
tition. The board may enforce the tuberculin 
testing or the Bang’s testing of all cattle in a 
township in accordance with the provisions of 
this chapter providing for the eradication of 
bovine tuberculosis or Bang’s disease, as the 
case may be and the rules and regulations of 
the board relating thereto when: 
1. In the case of tuberculin testing, the board 
is petitioned to apply such test to all cattle 
within such township by a petition signed 
by a majority of the resident freeholders or 
livestock owners within such township; or 
2. In the case of Bang’s testing, the board is 
petitioned to apply such test to all cattle within such township by a petition signed 
by not less than seventy-five percent of 
the resident freeholders or livestock owners 
within such township. 
When an entire township is tested by the board 
pursuant to the provisions of this section, the 
provisions of this chapter relating to reimburse- 
ment of the owners of slaughtered diseased ani- 
mals shall apply. 
36-1514. Cattle Not To Be Permitted to Enter 
Area Circumscribed by Board for Testing Pur- 
poses. Whenever a circumscribed area is estab- 
lished by the board as an area in which all 
cattle are to be tuberculin tested or Bang’s 
tested, as the case may be and such test is 
undertaken under the direction of the board, 
no other cattle shall be permitted to enter such 
area except under a special permit and restric- 
tions provided by the board unless: 
1. If the area is to be tuberculin tested, such 
cattle have been tuberculin tested under the 
direction of the board or are accompanied 
by a proper tuberculin tested health cer- 
tificate; or 
2. If the area is to be Bang’s tested, such 
cattle have been Bang’s tested under the 
direction of the board or are accompanied 
by a proper Bang’s test health certificate. 
36-1515. Testing for Tuberculosis or for Bang’s 
Disease Without Petition; When Permitted. The 
board may enforce the testing of all cattle with- 
in a county even though a petition therefor has 
not been filed: 
1. For tuberculosis, when it has determined 
that the cattle in a majority of the town- 
ships in the county have been tuberculin 
tested; or 
2. For Bang’s disease, when seventy-five per- 
cent or more of the townships in the county 
have been completely Bang’s tested. 
36-1516. Transportation to Agents of Board 
May Be Furnished by County or Township. The 
Board of County Commissioners or the Board of 
Township Supervisors may provide transportation 
for official inspectors between stations and be- 
tween different herds of cattle when such in- 
spectors are engaged in making tuberculin tests 
or Bang’s tests within the county or township, 
as the case may be, pursuant to the provisions 
of sections 36-1514 and 36-1515. 
36-1517. Tuberculin Testing of Entire County 
May Be Enforced Under Certain Conditions. The 
board and its agents may enforce the tuberculin 
testing of all cattle in a county under the pro- visions of this chapter relating to the eradication 
of bovine tuberculosis when such county lies 
adjacent on two sides tc counties: 
1. In which all cattle have been tuberculin 
tested; and 
2. Which have been established by federal 
and state authorities as modified accredited 
tuberculosis-free counties. 
When tuberculin testing is undertaken by the 
board and its agents under the provisions of this 
section, the Board of County Commissioners of 
the county being tested shall provide funds for 
the transportation between the different farms 
of the official veterinarians acting as agents of 
the board in making such tests. 
36-1518. Retesting in Modified Accredited Tu- 
berculosis-Free County. When the board shall 
notify the Board of County Commissioners of any 
modified accredited tuberculosis-free county in 
this state that the cattle in such county shall be 
retested to conform to federal and state regula- 
tions governing the reaccrediting of counties, 
such Board of County Commissioners may provide 
such funds as may be necessary to do such 
retesting. 
36-1519. Penalty for Violation of Provisions 
Relating to Testing of Livestock. Any person 
who shall refuse to assist the board or its agents 
in, or who endeavors to prevent the board or its 
agents from carrying out the provisions of this 
chapter or who shall violate any of the provi- 
sions of this chapter relating to the testing of 
cattle, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred 
dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail 
for not less than thirty days nor more than 
ninety days or by both such fine and imprison- 
ment. 
36-1601. Possession of Glandered Animal Pro- 
hibited; Animal To Be Destroyed. Any person 
who shall own, possess or in any manner keep, 
use or control any horse, gelding, stallion, mare, 
ass or mule which is infected with glanders shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor. All such diseased 
animals shall be destroyed summarily as pro- 
vided in this chapter. 
36-1602. Proceedings When State Livestock 
Sanitary Board Orders Animal Killed Because of 
Infection With Glanders or Dourine. Whenever 
the State Livestock Sanitary Board or any of its 
authorized agents shall determine, under the 
powers granted to such board by section 36-0112, 
that it is necessary to kill any horse, gelding, stallion, mare, ass or mule because the same 
is infected with either glanders or dourine, the 
actual value of such animal shall be determined 
by the board or its agent within twenty-four 
hours after the killing or destruction is ordered 
and the owner or keeper of the animal shall be 
notified in writing of such order and of such 
appraisal. If such owner or keeper is aggrieved 
by such appraisal, he may have the animal re- 
appraised in the manner provided in section 
36-1504 and such reappraisal shall be final. The 
owner or keeper of the animal may protest 
against the killing thereof as ordered by the 
board in the manner provided in section 36-0114, 
and if such protest is made, proceedings shall 
be had as specified in such section and the 
costs of the consultation shall be paid as pro- 
vided in section 36-0115. 
36-1603. Maximum Valuations of Animals 
Condemned Because of Glanders or Dourine. 
The appraised value of an animal condemned for 
infection with glanders or with dourine shall 
be determined by the actual market selling price 
of such- animal had it not been so infected but 
not exceeding the applicable amount following: 
1. A grade stallion, gelding, mare, ass or mule 
shall not be valued at more than one hun- 
dred dollars; and 
2. A purebred registered stallion, mare or 
jackass shall not be valued at more than 
one hundred fifty dollars. 
36-1604. Certification by State Livestock Sani- 
tary Board to Justice of the Peace. The State 
Livestock Sanitary Board or its authorized agent 
who ordered the destruction of any animal in- 
fected with glanders or dourine and who made 
or took part in the appraisal of the same, shall 
certify the facts in writing to a justice of the 
peace of the county in which the animal is 
located. 
36-1605. Duty of Owner or Keeper After Re- 
ceiving Notice of Destruction. Within five days 
after the notice to destroy an animal because 
the same is infected with glanders or dourine 
has been served upon him, the owner or keeper 
of such animal shall: 
1. Destroy the animal or cause the same to be 
destroyed; 
2. Dispose of the carcass of the animal or 
cause the same to be disposed of before 
two witnesses or before the agent of the 
State Livestock Sanitary Board in the man- 
ner prescribed by the board; and 
3. Make an affidavit of the destruction and 
disposal of such animal which affidavit shall be sworn to also by the witnesses or 
agent of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, 
before the justice of the peace to whom the 
certificate provided for in section 36-1604 
was made. 
36-1606. Failure of Owner or Keeper to Com- 
ply With Destruction Order; Duty of Justice of 
the Peace. If the owner or keeper of an animal 
which has been ordered destroyed by an agent 
of the State Livestock Sanitary Board shall fail 
to comply with such order and to file with the 
justice of the peace the affidavit of the destruc- 
tion and disposal of the animal, the justice of 
the peace to whom the certification was made 
shall notify the sheriff or any constable within 
the county that the order of the board or its 
authorized agent was not complied with. The 
failure to make • and file the affidavit as pro- 
vided in section 36-1605 shall constitute a non- 
compliance with the provisions of this chapter. 
36-1607. Duty of Sheriff or Constable to De- 
stroy Animal; Compensation. Immediately after 
receiving the notice from the justice of the 
peace, the sheriff or constable shall proceed to 
destroy the animal ordered to be destroyed by 
the State Livestock Sanitary Board or its author- 
ized agent. The officer performing such duty 
shall receive the same mileage as is allowed to 
the sheriff under the provisions of this code. 
36-1608. Payment of Claims for Animals 
Condemned for Glanders or Dourine. The 
justice of the peace shall file with the Execu- 
tive Officer of the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board the certificate made to him by the 
board or by the authorized agent thereof and 
the affidavit of the destruction and disnosal of 
an animal which was killed because the same 
was infected with glanders or dourine. The 
Executive Officer shall record the certificate and 
affidavit upon his docket and shall certify the 
same to the State Auditor who shall issue a 
warrant upon the State Treasurer against the 
glanders and dourine horse fund in favor of 
the owner of the animal after the claim has 
been approved by the State Auditing Board. The 
amount of indemnity paid by this state shall 
not exceed: 
1. In the case of an animal condemned be- 
cause it is infected with glanders, two-thirds 
of the sum named in the return of the 
appraiser or appraisers placing the valua- 
tion upon the animal; and 
2. In the case of an animal condemned be- 
cause it is infected with dourine, one-half 
of the sum named in the return of the appraiser or appraisers placing the valua- 
tion upon the animal. 
36-1609. Justice of the Peace To Keep Record 
of Proceedings and Tax and Certify Fees and 
Costs. The justice of the peace to whom a cer- 
tificate is made by the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board or its authorized agent under any provi- 
sion of this chapter shall: 
1. Enter in his docket a record of any such 
certificate and the proceedings had in con- 
nection therewith; 
2. Tax all costs of the justice of the peace and 
all fees of officers other than of an author- 
ized agent of the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board; and 
3. Certify all costs and fees taxed in any such 
proceeding to the Board of County Commis- 
sioners. 
36-1610. Payment of Fees and Costs. The fees 
and costs in a proceeding brought under the 
provisions of this chapter as certified by the 
justice of the peace shall be audited by the 
Board of County Commissioners and paid by the 
county in the same manner as costs are paid in 
a criminal action before a justice of the peace. 
If it shall appear that the animal which was 
destroyed pursuant to an order entered in a 
proceeding brought under the provisions of this 
chapter had not been kept within the county 
for at least sixty days immediately prior to 
the filing of the certificate, the County Auditor 
shall certify the costs and fees paid by the 
county to the State Auditor, who shall issue his 
warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount 
thereof in favor of the county and such war- 
rant shall be paid out of the glanders and dour- 
ine horse fund. 
36-1611. Glanders and Dourine Horse Fund To 
Be Maintained. There shall be maintained in 
the office of the State Treasurer a glanders and 
dourine horse fund for the purpose of carrying 
out the provisions of this chapter. Such fund 
shall consist of the moneys appropriated thereto 
from time to time by the legislative assembly 
and shall be used only for the payment of 
allowances therefrom in connection with the 
destruction of animals for either glanders or 
dourine. 
36-1612. Owner of Animal Destroyed for 
Glanders or for Dourine not Entitled to Indemn- 
ity; When. The right of indemnity shall not 
exist and payment shall not be made for an 
animal killed because the same was infected with glanders or with dourine in the following 
cases: 
1. For an animal belonging to the United 
States or to this state or to any city, county, 
township or village in this state; 
2. When the owner at the time of coming into 
possession of the animal knew it to be dis- 
eased with glanders or dourine, as the case 
may be or to have been exposed to such 
disease; 
3. When the owner or his agent failed to make 
an affidavit of the destruction and disposal 
before the justice of the peace as provided 
in section 36-1605; 
4. For an animal found to have been diseased 
at the time of its arrival in this state; 
5. For an animal brought into this state to do 
contract work; 
6. When the animal at the time of its destruc- 
tion has been in this state less than six 
months; 
7. When the owner or owners of the animal 
shall have been guilty of negligently or 
willfully exposing such animal to the 
influence of infected animals or of infected 
or contaminated surroundings; or 
8. When the owner or claimant is not a resi- 
dent of this state. 
36-1613. State Livestock Sanitary Board May 
and in Certain Instances Shall Test for Glanders. 
The State Livestock Sanitary Board may test or 
cause to be tested any horse, mule or ass which 
may have been exposed to glanders. When re- 
quested to do so by the Board of Township Su- 
pervisors of any organized township or by the 
Board of County Commissioners of any county, 
the State Livestock Sanitary Board shall test or 
cause to be tested all horses, mules and asses in 
such township or county, as the case may be: 
1. Which shall have been exposed to glanders; 
or 
2. Which are designated by the Board of 
Township Supervisors or by the Board of 
County Commissioners. 
The resolution requesting the test shall specify 
whether the test shall be made under subsection 
1 or under subsection 2 of this section. 
36-1614. Payment of Fees for Glanders Tests 
Made by State Livestock Sanitary Board; Excep- 
tion. An agent of the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board shall be paid such fees, not exceeding 
five dollars per day and actual expenses, as 
may be determined by the board for making 
glanders tests pursuant to the provisions of section 36-1613. Itemized accounts for such test- 
ing together with detailed reports thereof shall 
be submitted by the agent to the board and 
when the same have been audited and approved 
by the board, shall be forwarded to the Board 
of County Commissioners of the county in which 
said testing was performed. The Board of County 
Commissioners shall order warrants drawn by 
the County Auditor for one-half of the amount of 
the approved account, and the remaining one- 
half of such account shall be paid on order of 
the State Livestock Sanitary Board from funds 
appropriated to it so long as there are moneys 
available for such purposes. 
36-1615. Payment of Fees for Glanders Tests 
Made by State Livestock Sanitary Board When 
Board’s Appropriation Is Exhausted. If the State 
Livestock Sanitary Board, by reason of the fact 
that its appropriation for such purposes is ex- 
hausted, is unable to pay its part of the fees 
for the making of glanders tests as provided in 
section 36-1614, the owner of any animal exposed 
to glanders may have such animal tested under 
the direction of the board and the expenses of 
such testing shall be borne in equal shares by 
the owner of the exposed animal and the county 
wherein such owner resides. 
36-1801. Serum Institute: Maintenance; Con- 
trol and Regulations of; Director of. A serum 
institute shall be maintained at the State Agri- 
cultural College. The institute shall be under the 
control and regulation of the State Board of 
Higher Education, and the Professor of Veteri- 
nary Science of the Agricultural College shall be 
its director. 
36-1802. Duties of Director of Serum Institute. 
The director of the serum institute shall manu- 
facture or cause to be manufactured vaccines, 
serums and other agents for the prevention, 
eradication, cure and control of tuberculosis, 
glanders, hog cholera, blackleg and other infec- 
tious or contagious diseases of livestock. 
36-1803. Distribution of Vaccines and Serums 
to Citizens and Residents. The director of the 
serum institute shall distribute or cause to be 
distributed free of charge to citizens and resi- 
dents of this state, the vaccines, serums and 
other agents upon an application therefor show- 
ing that the issue of such vaccines, serums and 
other agents is warranted by existing conditions 
and upon such conditions as may be prescribed 
by the State Livestock Sanitary Board. 
36-1804. Sale of Serums or Vaccines Prohib- 
ited; Penalty. Any person who shall sell any serum, vaccine or other agent received from 
the serum institute or who shall offer the same 
for sale, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred 
dollars. 
36-1901, County May Establish Public Dipping 
Stations on Petition. Upon the presentation to 
the Board of County Commissioners of any county 
in this state of a petition signed by ten percent 
or more of the freeholders of the county peti- 
tioning for the establishment and construction of 
public dipping stations for the dipping of live- 
stock within such county, such board may pro- 
ceed to establish and construct public dipping 
stations at convenient places within the county. 
The cost of construction shall be paid by the 
county' out of funds available for such purpose 
and if no funds are available, a levy shall be 
made for the purpose by the Board of County 
Commissioners when the next general tax levy 
is made. 
36-1902. Township To Vote on Question of 
Establishment of Dipping Station on Petition. If 
a petition signed by six or more resident free- 
holders of a township asking for the establish- 
ment and construction of a dipping station with- 
in the township is presented to the Board of 
Township Supervisors, the board shall submit the 
question of establishing a dipping station to the 
electors of the township at the next annual town- 
ship meeting. 
36-1303. Form of Ballot To Be Used at Town- 
ship Election on Question of Establishing Dipping 
Station. The ballot to be used at a township 
election on the question of the establishment of 
a dipping station shall be in substantially the 
folowing form: 
Shall a township dipping station be established 
and maintained? 
□ Yes 
□ No 
36-1904. Construction of Township Dipping 
Station. If a majority of the ballots cast on the 
question are in favor of the establishment and 
maintenance of a township dipping station, the 
Board of Township Supervisors shall proceed to 
construct and maintain a dipping station at a 
place within the township which will be conven- 
ient and accessible to the residents of the town- 
ship. The cost of construction shall be paid from 
the Township Treasury. 
36-1905. Dipping Stations To Be Constructed 
on Co-operative Basis. When a dipping station is established by a county or by a township 
under the provisions of this chapter, the con- 
struction work thereon, insofar as possible, shall 
be done by the farmers and livestock owners 
of the county or township, as the case may be, 
on a cooperative basis and credit against dipping 
charges shall be given to such farmers and 
livestock owners for necessary labor performed 
by therh in the construction of the station. 
36-1906. Operation of Dipping Stations; Form- 
ula for Dipping Solution. After the establish- 
ment of a dipping station under the provisions 
of this chapter, the Board of County Commission- 
ers or the Board of Township Supervisors, as the 
case may be, shall appropriate the necessary 
funds for the purchase of materials and chemi- 
cals required in the operation of the station so 
long as it is maintained. The dipping solution 
used shall be that prescribed by the rules and 
formulas adopted by the United States Bureau 
of Animal Industry. 
36-1907. Dipping Fees May Be Charged. The 
Board of County Commissioners for a dipping 
station maintained by the county or the Board 
of Township Supervisors for a dipping station 
maintained by the township, may levy a pro 
rata dipping fee upon the users of the dipping 
station, but such fee shall not exceed the actual 
cost to the county or to the township, as the 
case may be, of the construction and operation 
of the station. Any dipping fee so levied shall be 
paid in cash when any animal is dipped in the 
station and shall be paid to the County Treas- 
urer or Township Treasurer, as the case may be, 
and accounted for in the same manner as other 
county or township receipts are accounted for. 
36-0501. Definitions. In this chapter, unless 
the context or subject matter otherwise requires; 
1. “Livestock” shall mean horses, mules, cattle, 
swine, sheep and goats; 
2. “Livestock sales ring” shall mean a place or 
establishment conducted or operated for 
compensation or profit as a public market, 
consisting of pens or other enclosures and 
their appurtenances, in which livestock is 
received, held or kept for sale and where 
such livestock is sold or offered for sale 
at either public auction or private sale; and 
3. “Commission” shall mean the Public Service 
Commission. 
36-0502. Premises Excluded From Application 
of Chapter. The provisions of this chapter shall 
not apply to; 1. Any place used solely for the dispersal 
sale of the livestock of a farmer, dairyman, 
livestock breeder or feeder who is discon- 
tinuing his business; 
2. The premises of any butcher, packer or 
processor who receives animals exclusively 
for immediate slaughter; or 
3. Any place where any individual or any 
duly constituted association of breeders of 
livestock of any class assembles and offers 
for sale and sells under his or its manage- 
ment registered livestock or breeding sires 
if such individual or association assumes all 
responsibility of the sale, guarantees title 
of such livestock and makes proper provi- 
sion for the inspection of all animals sold. 
36-0503. License Required: Application: Fee. 
No person, partnership, firm or corporation 
shall establish or operate a livestock sales ring 
within this state without first procuring a license 
to do so from the commission. An applicant for 
such license shall: 
1. Make a written application therefor in the 
form prescribed by the commission; 
2. File with the commission a statement show- 
ing that he or it is financially responsible 
to operate such a sales ring and that he or 
it owns or controls adequate facilities for 
the care, sorting, feeding, loading and un- 
loading and shipment of livestock; and 
3. Pay to the commission a license fee of one 
hundred dollars. 
36-0504. Bond to Accompany Application for 
License; Amount; Approval; Conditions; Term. 
Each applicant for a license to operate a live- 
stock sales ring shall file with his application 
for such license, or for a renewal thereof, a 
surety bond in the penal sum of ten thousand 
dollars. Such bond shall be approved as to 
amount, form and surety by the commission. The 
commission shall be the obligee in the bond 
and it shall be for the benefit of and for the 
purpose of protecting, any person selling to or 
through or buying livestock through or from the 
licensee or his or its agent. The bond shall be 
conditioned for: 
1. The payment of all money received by the 
licensee and operator of such livestock sales 
ring as such operator less reasonable ex- 
penses and agreed commissions; 
2. The faithful performance by the licensee 
of his duties as such licensee; and 
3. The faithful performance by the licensee 
of all the provisions of this code relating to the purchase, sale or holding of live- 
stock. 
Such bond shall cover the entire license period. 
36-0505. Expiration and Renewal of License: 
Fee Returned Upon Failure to Issue or Renew 
License. Each license issued under the provi- 
sions of this chapter shall expire on the thirty- 
first day of January next following the date of 
issuance thereof. Each license shall be renewed 
annually on or before January thirty-first. The 
fee for a renewal license shall be the same as 
that prescribed for an original license. If the 
commission does not issue a requested original 
license or renewal license, the fee paid shall 
be refunded to the applicant. 
36-05C6. Investigation of Sales Ring; Hearing 
Conducted to Determine Whether License Should 
Be Issued or Revoked. The commission, upon its 
own motion or upon a complaint by any person, 
may enter into an investigation of the sales 
and transactions of any livestock sales ring and 
of the conditions under which its business is 
conducted. The commission, when it deems it 
necessary, may conduct a hearing to determine 
whether the license of any sales ring should be 
revoked or whether the application of the owner 
or operator of a livestock sales ring for an origi- 
nal or renewal license should be denied. 
36-0507. Sanitary Regulations of Livestock 
Sales Ring. Every livestock sales ring shall be 
maintained in a sanitary condition. Any portion 
thereof used for the handling of hogs, including 
all hog pens, alleys and sales rings, shall be 
equipped with concrete floors at least three 
inches thick. Such floors shall be cleaned and 
disinfected after each sale, or in case of a 
continuous sale, not less than once each week 
or as often as may be prescribed by the State 
Livestock Sanitary Board. 
36-0508. Scales Maintained by Sales Ring To 
Be Inspected. All scales used in the operation of 
a livestock sales ring shall be tested and in- 
spected by the Department of Weights and Meas- 
ures in the manner provided in this code. All 
livestock sold by weight shall be weighed on 
such scales and the purchaser and seller of such 
livestock shall be furnished with a true and 
correct statement of such weight. 
36-0509. Records To Be Kept by Operator of 
Sales Ring; Contents; Examination. The opera- 
tor of each livestock sales ring shall keep on file 
an accurate record of: 
1. The date on which each consignment of 
animals was received and sold; 2. The name and address of the buyer and 
seller of such animals; 
3. The number and species of the animals re- 
ceived and sold; and 
4. The marks and brands on each such animal. 
Such record, together with the gross selling 
price, commission and other proper care, han- 
dling and sales charges on each consignment of 
livestock shall be available for inspection by 
the commission or its authorized inspector and 
a copy thereof shall be supplied to the owner 
of such livestock. All records of sales during 
the preceding twelve months shall be kept read- 
ily accessible for immediate examination. 
36-0510. Inspection of Livestock: Fees and 
Regulations Governing. When an animal enters 
a livestock sales ring and before it is offered 
for sale, it shall be inspected for health and 
brands. Such inspection shall be made by a vet- 
erinarian approved by the State Livestock Sani- 
tary Board whether the livestock is moved inter- 
state or intrastate. The fees for such inspection 
and the manner of payment thereof shall be 
established by rules and regulations adopted by 
the State Livestock Sanitary Board. 
36-0511. Treatment Administered to Livestock 
Before Removal From Sales Ring; Fees for In- 
spection and Treatment. No operator of a live- 
stock sales ring shall permit the removal of any 
livestock from the establishment until such live- 
stock has been treated in accordance with the 
rules and regulations prescribed by the State 
Livestock Sanitary Board. The authorized veteri- 
narian of such board shall furnish to each pur- 
chaser a certificate showing that inspection has 
been made and treatment administered as pro- 
vided by the rules and regulations of the State 
Livestock Sanitary Board. If livestock is destined 
to be shipped interstate, the certificate shall 
show that it has been inspected in accordance 
with the requirements of the state of destina- 
tion. All fees for veterinary inspection, treat- 
ment and services, including brand inspection, 
shall be collected by the operator of the livestock 
sales ring and paid to the inspector. 
36-0512. Operator to Warrant Title to Pur- 
chaser; Dispute in Title of Animal Sold. The 
operator of each livestock sales ring shall war- 
rant to the purchaser the title of all livestock 
bought by him through such sales ring and 
shall be liable to the rightful owner of any 
livestock sold through the sales ring for the net 
proceeds in cash received therefor. If the opera- 
tor of a sales ring is notified bv an authorized 
brand insoector that there is a question as to whether or not any designated livestock sold 
through such ring is lawfully owned by the 
consignor thereof, such operator shall hold the 
proceeds received from the sale of the livestock 
for a reasonable time, not to exceed sixty days, 
to permit the consignor to establish ownership. 
At the expiration of such time, if the consignor 
fails to establish his lawful ownership of the 
livestock to the satisfaction of the brand inspec- 
tor, the proceeds shall be transmitted by such 
operator to the commission and the commission 
shall dispose of the same to the rightful owner 
in accordance with the provisions of this code. 
36-0513. Use of Fees Collected by Commission: 
Grounds for Refusal or Revocation of License; 
Procedure on Revocation and on Default of 
Licensee. All fees collected by the commission 
under the provisions of this chapter shall be de- 
posited and disbursed in accordance with the 
provisions of section 36-0409. A license to operate 
a livestock sales ring may be refused or revoked 
for any of the reasons specified in section 
36-0410 and the provisions of section 36-0411 
shall apply to the revocation of licenses issued 
under the provisions of this chapter. The provi- 
sions of sections 36-0412 to 36-0419, both inclus- 
ive, shall apply when the holder of a license 
issued under the provisions of this chapter shall 
default in any of the conditions of any bond 
filed with the commission by such licensee. 
36-0514. Penalty for Violation of Provisions of 
Chapter; Penalty for a Second Violation. Any 
person who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
and shall be punished by a fine of not more 
than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment 
in the county jail for not more than thirty days, 
or by both such fine and imprisonment. Every 
person who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this chapter after having been convicted 
previously of a violation of any provision there- 
of shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be 
punished by a fine of not less than one hundred 
dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or 
by imprisonment in the county jail for not less 
than thirty days nor more than one year or by 
both such fine and imprisonment. 
36-0701. License Required to Operate Render- 
ing Plant. No person, firm or corporation shall 
operate a rendering plant or establishment using 
the carcasses of domestic or wild animals which 
are not intended for human consumption without 
first obtaining a license to do so from the State 
Livestock Sanitary Board. Such license* shall be 
issued only upon a written application filed 
with the board in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and such rules and regulations 
as may be established by the board. 
36-0702. Inspection of Establishment of Appli- 
cant by State Livestock Sanitary Board. Upon 
the receipt of an application for a license to 
operate a rendering plant, the State Livestock 
Sanitary Board shall cause an inspection to be 
made of the establishment for which a license 
is requested, including its equipment and vehi- 
cles and the manner in which its business is 
conducted, with reference and due regard to the 
danger of disease transmission and dissemination. 
36-0703. Granting of License; Fee; Term. If 
the inspection fails to reveal any danger of 
disease transmission, the State Livestock Sanitary 
Board shall issue the license applied for upon 
payment of a fee of fifty dollars. Such license 
shall remain valid for a period of one year from 
the date of issuance unless it is revoked for 
cause by said board before such time. 
36-0704. Sanitary Requirements of Rendering 
Establishment. No rendering establishment or 
plant shall be deemed sanitary unless it con- 
forms to the following specifications: 
1. All floors must be made of concrete; 
2. All openings must be screened to prevent 
the entrance of flies and insects; 
3. The building must be nrovided with good 
drainage and be thoroughlv sanitary in 
every respect; and 
4. All collecting vats or tanks shall be air 
tight except for proper escapes for live 
steam for cooking and such steam shall be 
reverted into a tank of water or into a 
firebox so as not to become an unnecessary 
annoyance or nuisance. 
36-0705. Disposal of Waste and Sewage From 
Rendering Plants. No liquid waste, either from 
the rendering process or from washing, shall be 
discharged into any stream or water place or 
upon the surface of the ground, nor shall such 
liquid waste be discharged in any manner which 
will contaminate any water supply or make 
the same unfit for human or livestock use. All 
sewage from washing floors and vehicles and 
liquid waste from the rendering process shall be 
disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the state 
livestock sanitary board. A rendering establish- 
ment which is situated so that all its waste can 
be disposed of into a city disposal plant may so 
dispose of it if permission is granted by the 
city. No such permit shall be granted by any 
city to any such plant or establishment which comes into existence after March 17, 1941, un- 
less the same is equipped for dry rendering. 
36-0706. Situation and Conduct of Rendering 
Plants Not to Interfere With Comfort or Property 
of Citizens. All rendering plants and establish- 
ments shall be situated and conducted in such 
a manner as not to interfere with the comfort 
or property of the citizens of this state. 
36-0707. Unloading Chutes and Vehicles Used 
by Rendering Plant; Regulations Governing. All 
unloading places or chutes used by a rendering 
plant or establishment must be on cement floors 
which can be cleaned and disinfected. Every 
vehicle used for transporting carcasses of dead 
animals to a rendering plant or establishment 
shall: 
1. Be provided with a bed or tank not less 
than fifty inches in width which is all 
metal, metal lined or watertight for at 
least six inches above the floor of the box 
or bed; 
2. Have a metal lined endgate which is hinged 
at the bottom of the bed or box and is 
fastened firmly to the top of the bed or 
box when closed; 
3. Be so constructed that the sides, top and 
endgate thereof will prevent flies and other 
insects from entering the vehicle; 
4. Carry a tank filled with a four percent 
solution of creosol for use as a disinfectant 
or other disinfectant as prescribed by the 
rules and regulations adopted by the State 
Livestock Sanitary Board; 
5. Be disinfected with the solution described 
in subsection 4 after it has been used for 
collecting a dead animal at a farm and be- 
fore it enters upon any public highway of 
this state and special attention shall be 
given to all those parts of the vehicle 
which came in contact with the ground 
while upon the premises; and 
6. Be thoroughly washed and disinfected with 
the solution described in subsection 4 or 
with live steam, or both, after it has been 
unloaded at the rendering plant. 
The operator of any such vehicle shall disinfect 
himself, paying special attention to his hands and 
footwear, with the solution described in subsec- 
tion 4 immediately after leaving any farm at 
which he has collected the carcass of a dead 
animal. 
36-0708. Carcasses To Be Removed From Ve- 
hicle Only at a Rendering Plant. No carcass 
collected at any farm in this state shall be removed from the vehicle except at the render- 
ing plant for final disposal. 
36-0709. Operator of Vehicle for Rendering 
Plant To Have Certificate. Any person operat- 
ing a vehicle for a licensed rendering establish- 
ment shall have an authorized certificate from 
the rendering establishment which has been 
approved by the State Livestock Sanitary Board. 
36-0710. Inspection of Rendering Plant Au- 
thorized. The operator of any rendering estab- 
lishment shall permit an official authorized by 
the State Livestock Sanitary Board or any health 
officer to inspect his establishment at any time. 
36-0711. Rendering Done in Connection With 
Packing Plant Operations. Any rendering done 
in connection with regular packing plant opera- 
tions under federal inspection shall be exempt 
from the provisions of this chapter. 
36-0712. Money Collected To Be Credited to 
State Livestock Sanitary Board. Money collected 
under this chapter shall be deposited with the 
State Treasurer to the credit of the State Live- 
stock Sanitary Board and shall be paid out and 
disbursed only pursuant to an appropriation 
first made by the legislative assembly. 
36-0713. Restrictions on Rebuilding and Locat- 
ing Rendering Plants. No rendering plant or es- 
tablishment shall be constructed within three 
miles of the limits of any municipality nor with- 
in one mile of any farmstead. No such plant 
which was in existence and operation on March 
17, 1941, shall be rebuilt if it is located within 
three miles of the limits of any municipality. 
36-0714. Penalty for Violation of Chapter. 
Any person, firm or corporation and any em- 
ployee thereof, violating any of the provisions 
of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and 
shall be punished by a fine of not more than 
one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the 
county jail for not more than ninety days, or 
by both such fine and imprisonment. 
Source: Book 4, North Dakota Revised Code of 
1943, beginning Page 2489. 
Regulation No. 1 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE IMPOR- 
TATION OF LIVESTOCK, DOGS AND POUL- 
TRY INTO THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
Section 1. Horses, Mules and Asses.) All 
horses, mules and asses, imported into the State 
of North Dakota must be accompanied by a health certificate, certifying that said animals 
have been given a physical examination and 
found to be free from symptoms of all conta- 
gious, infectious or ti'ansmissible diseases. 
All stallions imported into the State of North 
Dakota must also be accompanied by a certifi- 
cate of soundness, certifying that said animals 
are free from all contagious, infectious or trans- 
missible diseases, or unsoundness, as provided 
in Section 36-0319 of the North Dakota Revised 
Code of 1943. 
Section 2. Cattle.) All cattle imported into 
the State of North Dakota must be accompanied 
by a health certificate, certifying that said ani- 
mals are free from symptoms of contagious, in- 
fectious or communicable diseases. 
All cattle imported into the State of North 
Dakota that are to be used for dairy, breeding 
or exhibition purposes must be tuberculin tested 
within a period of thirty days of date of ship- 
ment, unless the cattle originate from an accred- 
ited tuberculosis-free herd or from a herd in a 
modified accredited tuberculosis-free area, in 
which the entire herd has passed a negative 
tuberculin test within three years prior to entry, 
and a record of the last official test, including 
the name and address of the veterinarian making 
the test, indicated on the health certificate. Such 
cattle must be apparently healthy and free of 
any indication of scabies, and be properly iden- 
tified, including a record of a satisfactory nega- 
tive agglutination blood test for brucellosis with- 
in thirty days prior to date of entry or originate 
from an accredited brucellosis-free herd or from 
a herd in the process of accreditation, providing 
not less than two negative blood tests have 
been made within a period of twelve months, 
the last test having been made within six 
months prior to date of entry. Unvaccinated 
calves under six (6) months of age will not be 
required to be blood tested prior to entry, pro- 
vided they are identified as the progeny and 
come directly from negative or accredited brucel- 
losis-free herds. 
Heifers under eighteen months of age that 
have been officially vaccinated with Brucella 
Abortus Vaccine Strain 19 may be imported 
into North Dakota on a special permit from the 
State Veterinarian, providing all other health 
requirements have been complied with, except 
a negative test for brucellosis. The health certifi- 
cate must include the name and address of the 
veterinarian who administered the vaccine and 
a statement that all calves were under eight 
months of age at the time of vaccination and 
originate from a herd free of brucellosis. All cattle for feeding purposes must be accom- 
panied by a health certificate, certifying that 
they have been tuberculin tested or originated 
from a negative herd in a modified accredited 
tuberculosis-free area or from a herd not in 
quarantine in a range or semi-range modified 
accredited tuberculosis-free area in which not 
less than 10 per cent of the cattle in all the 
herds were tuberculin tested, properly certified 
to by the official in charge of state of origin. 
All female cattle and bulls over six months of 
age, for feeding purposes, must have a record of 
a satisfactory negative agglutination blood test 
for brucellosis (Bang’s disease). 
Provided, that the restrictions in Section 2 of 
this regulation shall not apply to apparently 
healthy livestock imported for immediate 
slaughter at packing establishments where fed- 
eral inspection is maintained or to livestock of 
any class being consigned to the Union Stock- 
yards at West Fargo, North Dakota. 
All purebred female cattle, except those origin- 
ating from accredited brucellosis-free herds, will 
be immediately quarantined on land owned or 
leased by the buyer of the cattle and they 
must be tested at the owner’s expense. All ani- 
mals found positive to the test will be slaught- 
ered or returned to the state from which they 
originated. 
ui term. 
Section 3. Swine.) All swine imported into 
the State of North Dakota must be accompanied 
by a health certificate, certifying that the swine 
have been immunized with a protective dose of 
hog cholera serum not more than fifteen days 
prior to date of importation when the serum 
alone is used, or not less than thirty days prior 
to date of importation when the 'serum and virus 
treatment is used. 
All swine imported into the State of North Da- 
kota for exhibition purposes at state or county 
fairs must be immunized in accordance with the 
above provisions and be accompanied by a 
certificate to that effect. 
Section 4. Sheep.) All sheep imported into 
the State of North Dakota, except for immediate 
slaughter or shipment to Armour & Company, 
West Fargo, or Union Stockyards, West Fargo, 
must be accompanied by a health certificate 
certifying that said sheep are apparently free 
from communicable sheep diseases and have 
been dipped in a permitted scabies dip, under 
the supervision of an approved veterinarian. Ap- 
parently healthy sheen may be imported into 
the State of North Dakota from states declared 
to be free from scabies for the past twelve months prior to date of shipment by the state 
veterinarian of state of origin, providing said 
sheep are loaded in cleaned and disinfected cars 
or trucks or in cars or trucks not previously used 
for shipping sheep, and providing further, that 
said sheep are moved only through scabies-free 
yards and chutes. Each shipment must be accom- 
panied by a statement from an approved veteri- 
narian of state of origin stating that the sheep 
originated from a scabies-free state and indicat- 
ing the number of sheep being shipped, the name 
and address of the owner and the name and 
address of the consignee—a copy of said state- 
ment to be approved by the state veterinarian 
of state of origin and immediately forwarded to 
the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board, Bis- 
marck, North Dakota. 
Section 5. Dogs.) All dogs imported into the 
State of North Dakota for any purpose whatso- 
ever, except performing dogs for temporary stay 
within the State, must be accompanied by a 
health certificate, issued by an approved veteri- 
narian in the state of origin, certifying that 
rabies has not existed for the last nine months 
within a radius of fifty miles of origin of ship- 
ment, and that said animals are free from symp- 
toms of any communicable disease, and have not 
been exposed to rabies. 
When this requirement cannot be complied 
with, dogs will be admitted into the State of 
North Dakota if they are accompanied by an 
official health certificate, certifying that they 
are free from any communicable disease and 
have been vaccinated with killed-rabies vaccine 
within a period of six months prior to shipment. 
Section 6. Poultry.) Chickens for breeding 
purposes shall not be imported into the State of 
North Dakota unless they originate from flocks 
authoritatively participating in the nullorum con- 
trol and eradication phase of the National Poul- 
try Improvement Plan, as provided in the latest 
revised issue of U. S. D. A Miscellaneous publica- 
tion No. 300, or have passed a negative agglutina- 
tion blood test for pullorum disease under the 
supervision of a state livestock sanitary authority 
within thirty days of date of sale. Baby chicks 
or hatching eggs shall not be shipped into the 
State of North Dakota or sold by hatcheries or 
others within the State unless they originate 
from flocks authoritatively participating in the 
pullorum control and eradication phase of the 
National Poultry Improvement Plan, as provided 
in the latest revised issue of the U. S. D. A. 
Miscellaneous publication No. 300, or from flocks 
that have met comparable requirements under 
the supervision of a recognized state livestock 
sanitary authority. Each crate, package, or container of hatching 
eggs, baby chicks, started chicks, or chicken 
breeding stock must carry an attached label 
showing authority for the testing and the pull- 
orum control and eradication class of the pro- 
duct. 
Section 7. Tests.) All health certificates shall 
be issued and all tuberculin and brucellosis tests 
shall be made by Federal or approved graduate 
veterinarians whose inspections and tests are en- 
dorsed by the officer in charge of livestock sani- 
tary control work in the state where said inspec- 
tions and tests are made, and subject to the 
regulations of the North Dakota Livestock 
Sanitary Board. All such tuberculin tests must 
conform to the standard tuberculin tests of. the 
United States Bureau of Animal Industry. 
All tuberculin and serums used must be manu- 
factured or approved by the United States Bur- 
eau of Animal Industry. 
All blood tests must be made by the official 
laboratory of state of origin or by veterinarians 
commissioned in the state of origin to make 
official federal-state plate agglutination blood 
tests and who have received laboratory training 
in the technique of the test and are approved by 
the Federal government and authorities in the 
state of origin. 
Section 8. Health Certificates.) The original 
certificate certifying to the aforesaid tests must 
be made on official federal or state blanks, and 
must accompany the shipment to its destination. 
When such original certificate is made, a dupli- 
cate thereof must be immediately mailed to the 
North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board, and fail- 
ure to do so shall be deemed cause to refuse ac- 
ceptance of any more certificates from persons 
guilty of this negligence. 
Regulation No. 2 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO NORTH DA- 
KOTA LIVESTOCK AND LIVESTOCK IM- 
PORTED INTO NORTH DAKOTA FOR 
EXHIBITION AT FAIRS 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
Section 1. Horses.) All horses will be ad- 
mitted without restrictions. If they are disposed 
of to remain within the State, they must be ac- 
companied by a health certificate, certifying that 
said animals have been given a physical exami- 
nation and found to be free from symptoms of 
all contagious, infectious, or transmissible dis- 
eases. All stallions must also be accompanied by 
a certificate of soundness, certifying that said animals are free from all contagious, infectious, 
or transmissible diseases, or unsoundness, as pro- 
vided in Section 36-0319 of the North Dakota 
Revised Code of 1943. 
Section 2. Cattle.) All cattle must be accom- 
panied by a health certificate, certifying that 
said animals are free from any symptoms of 
contagious, infectious or communicable diseases, 
also that they have been tuberculin tested within 
a period of thirty days of date of shipment, un- 
less the cattle originated from an accredited tu- 
berculosis-free herd or from a herd in a modified 
accredited tuberculosis-free area in which the 
entire herd has passed a negative tuberculin test 
within three years prior to entry, or originated 
from a herd in the process of accreditation or 
from a herd in an area in the process of accredi- 
tation wherein the entire herd has passed a nega- 
tive tuberculin test within six months prior to 
entry provided such cattle are apparently 
healthy, and are accompanied by a health cer- 
tificate and proper identification, including a 
record of a satisfactory negative agglutination 
blood test for brucellosis within thirtv days prior 
to date of entry, approved by the livestock sani- 
tary official or authorized agent of the state of 
origin, or originated from an accredited brucello- 
sis-free herd. Unvaccinated calves under six (6) 
months of age will not be required to be blood 
tested prior to entry, provided they are identi- 
fied as the progeny and come directly from neg- 
ative or accredited brucellosis-free herds. 
Purebred calves under eighteen (18) months 
of age which have been vaccinated with Strain 
No. 19 of Brucella Abortus Vaccine between 
the ages of four and eight months under the 
supervision of the livestock sanitary officials 
of the state of origin may be shown without the 
requirment of passing a negative agglutination 
blood test for brucellosis. However, such calves 
must not be sold within the State of North 
Dakota unless they pass a negative agglutination 
blood test, or are accompanied by official permit 
which will not be given unless they originate 
from a herd free from brucellosis. 
Section 3. Swine.) All swine must be accom- 
panied by a health certificate, certifying that the 
swine have been immunized with a protective 
dose of hog cholera serum not more than fifteen 
days prior to date of importation when the serum 
alone is used, or less than thirty days prior to 
date of importation when the serum and virus 
treatment is used. 
Section 4. Sheep.) All sheep must be accom- 
panied by a health certificate, specifically stating 
that they are free from scabies or any other communicable disease, and have not been ex- 
posed thereto within thirty days prior to ship- 
ment. 
Regulation No. 3 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE MOVE- 
MENT OF LIVESTOCK THROUGH PUBLIC 
STOCKYARDS, INCLUDING ALL CONCEN- 
TRATION POINTS WHERE LIVESTOCK IS 
CONSIGNED FOR PURPOSES OTHER THAN 
IMMEDIATE SLAUGHTER 
Section 1. Stockyards, sale pavilions and all 
concentration points where yarding, feeding and 
watering facilities are provided shall be con- 
strued as coming under this act. 
Section 2. No recommendation to the Public 
Service Commission for license shall be made 
for the operation of livestock sale rings con- 
nected with any railroad stockyards after Feb- 
ruary 1, 1945, except those previously established. 
Section 3. No animals shall be sold that orig- 
inate from farms in North Dakota on which the 
animals of the same species are under official 
quarantine. 
Section 4. All female cattle and bulls over 
six months of age, regardless of purpose, con- 
signed to North Dakota farms must pass a com- 
pletely negative blood test for brucellosis and 
all female cattle if being moved into a modified 
accredited brucellosis-free county must be quar- 
antined for retest, as required, except that 
heifers under eighteen (18) months of age that 
have been officially vaccinated with Strain 19, 
if positive to the brucellosis test, may be re- 
turned to the farm of the owner. 
Apparently healthy cattle of strictly slaughter 
type to be used for slaughter only may be sold 
without being subjected to tests or examination, 
but they must be slaughtered within ten days 
after their arrival at destination. 
Section 5. Swine may be sold to go back to 
farms in North Dakota or returned to the farm 
of the owner only when accompanied by a cer- 
tificate signed by an approved veterinarian certi- 
fying the animals have been vaccinated by the 
double or simultaneous method and including 
the date of such treatment which shall be at 
least thirty days prior to the sale. 
Swine not accompanied by such a certificate, 
consigned to sales located at points within coun- 
ties or areas in which hog cholera exists or has 
existed within the preceding twelve months, as 
(Revised January 17, 1945) disclosed by the records in the office of the 
North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board, shall be 
vaccinated as a preventative for hog cholera by 
an approved veterinarian authorized by the 
North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board, by the 
double or simultaneous method, before being re- 
moved from the saleyard and must be removed 
within twenty-four hours to the premises of the 
purchaser or owner and there held in quaran- 
tine, separate and apart from all other swine, 
for a period of not less than twenty-one days. 
Swine not accomoanied by such a certificate, 
consigned to sales located in counties or areas 
in which hog cholera does not or has not existed 
within the preceding twelve months, shall be 
treated before being removed from the saleyard 
by the veterinarian with the anti-hog cholera 
“serum alone” treatment and shall be held in 
quarantine, separate and apart from all other 
swine, for a period of not less than twenty-one 
days on the farm of the purchaser or owner. 
Fat hogs may be sold for immediate slaughter 
without being subjected to immunization against 
hog cholera. 
In yards where the disinfection of treated hogs 
is provided the United States Bureau of Animal 
Industry regulation should be followed. 
Section 6. No sheep shall be moved from 
said public stockyards or sale pavilions to any 
point within this state for any purpose unless 
accompanied by a health certificate, certifying 
that said sheep are apparently free from com- 
municable sheep diseases and have been dipped 
in a permitted scabies dip, under the supervision 
of an approved veterinarian. 
From October 15th to April 15th sheep may 
be sold for distribution in North Dakota without 
dipping that originate from scabies-free states 
and that have been moved to the stockyards or 
sale pavilions in cleaned and disinfected cars 
or trucks and kept or moved through scabies- 
free yards and chutes, providing they are pro- 
perly identified and certified to by an agent of 
the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board; all 
other sheep to be quarantined on land owned or 
leased by the buyer and inspected by a licensed 
veterinarian in not less than sixty days after 
purchase at the buyer’s expense. 
Providing the sale management handles only 
North Dakota sheep or sheep from scabies-free 
states, the provisions of dipping will not be re- 
quired, but a careful inspection must be made 
and a health certificate (L.S.B. Form 24A) issued 
to cover each lot. 
Section 7. All livestock offered for sale, if 
imported from other states to such sales, shall be imported in compliance with the provisions of 
the State laws and the regulations of the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board governing the 
importation of such livestock. 
Section 8. The owner or management operat- 
ing such sales shall give a full report of all 
animals bought and sold during the previous 
week, giving the names of the parties from 
whom the animals were bought and to whom 
they were sold, and shall employ a duly licensed 
veterinarian to inspect and examine all live- 
stock offered for sale. The veterinarian em- 
ployed must be acceptable to the North Dakota 
Livestock Sanitary Board and be authorized to 
act as a representative of said Board. He shall 
prohibit the sale of any animal or animals that 
in his opinion are affected with a communicable 
disease. He shall examine and accept, or refuse 
to accept, health certificates covering all animals 
consigned to the sale, vaccinate the hogs, make 
the tuberculin tests and the agglutination blood 
tests for brucellosis of cattle, and issue the offi- 
cial quarantine, when necessary, as required by 
the State laws and the regulations of the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board. He shall also 
supervise the cleaning and disinfection of the 
stockyards, sale pavilions, pens, premises and 
vehicles used in transporting livestock. He shall 
post stockyard quarantine placards in one or 
more conspicuous places. 
Section 9. All such sales rings, stockyards or 
public concentration points where any livestock 
is sold back to North Dakota farms or farms in 
other states must be maintained in a sanitary 
condition and that portion thereof which is used 
for handling hogs, including all hog pens, alleys 
and sales ring, shall be equipped with concrete 
floors at least three inches thick and these floors 
must be cleaned and disinfected after each sale 
or in case of continuous sale not less than once 
weekly or as often as may be prescribed by 
the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board. 
Regulation No. 4 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO GLANDERS 
AND GLANDERS-FARCY 
(Revised March 6, 1941) 
Section 1. In all cases of suspected glanders 
or glanders-farcy, the owner or person in charge 
should immediately isolate the suspected animal 
or animals and then notify the State Veterinar- 
ian or nearest assistant state veterinarian, de- 
scribing the symptoms exhibited by the suspect- 
ed animal or animals and advising of the own- 
er’s exact location, in accordance with Section 36-0113 of the North Dakota Revised Code of 
1943. 
Section 2. When the State Veterinarian or an 
assistant state veterinarian determines bv exam- 
ination that an animal is affected with the dan- 
gerous communicable disease known as glanders 
or glanders-farcy, such animal shall be imme- 
diately condemned and destroyed, in accordance 
with Section 36-1602 of the North Dakota Revised 
Code of 1943, and the following notice shall be 
served on the owner or person in charge: 
STATE LIVESTOCK SANITARY BOARD 
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA 
Destroy Notice 
To Address . 
County of , North Dakota 
Upon the appraisal of the following described 
animals, as provided for in Section 36-1603 of the 
North Dakota Revised Code of 1943, you are 
hereby ordered to immediately destroy , 
the same being affected with a dangerous con- 
tagious disease known as glanders and you are 
further ordered to bury or burn said carcasses. If 
buried, they must be at least four feet below the 
surface of the ground; if burned they must be 
entirely consumed. Failure on your part to carry 
out this order will be deemed a misdemeanor and 
you will be subject to punishment, as prescribed 
by law. 
Dated , 19 
Signed 
State Veterinarian. 
Assistant State Veterinarian. 
Where the right to indemnity does not exist, 
said animals shall be immediately destroyed and 
be buried or burned, in accordance with Section 
36-1612 of the North Dakota Revised Code of 
1943. 
Providing, whenever a domestic animal has 
been adjudged by the State Veterinarian or an 
assistant state veterinarian to be affected with 
glanders or glanders-farcy and has been ordered 
killed, the owner, if aggrieved at the decision, 
may file a protest against the killing thereof, in 
accordance with Section 36-1602 of the North 
Dakota Revised Code of 1943. 
Where the agent of the Nqrth Dakota Live- 
stock Sanitary Board orders the killing of an 
animal for glanders and does not witness the 
killing thereof, said agent must brand said con- 
demned animal by burning the letter “K” on the central portion of the left side of the neck; 
said letter “K” to be not less than three inches 
high and three inches wide. 
Section 3. Any animal that has been exposed 
to the contagion of glanders or glanders-farcy 
shall be quarantined in such place as indicated 
and until such time as said quarantine be raised, 
in writing, by the State Veterinarian or a duly 
authorized assistant state veterinarian and it 
shall be the duty of the owner or keeper of said 
animal to comply with said quarantine order 
and properly disinfect all premises as directed 
by the State Veterinarian or assistant state vet- 
erinarian, by authority indicated in Section 
36-0112 of the North Dakota Revised Code of 
1943. 
The .following quarantine notice shall be 
served on the owner or agent in charge of said 
animals: 
STATE LIVESTOCK SANITARY BOARD 
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA 
Quarantine Notice 
Office of , State Veterinarian, 
To Address 
You are hereby ordered to immediately quar- 
antine 
being on the of Section 
Township Range , 
and the same having been exposed to, or now 
having symptoms of a disease known as glanders 
or glanders-farcy and must for the safety of 
the public and yourself be kept in the same 
: as now 
, separate from all others. You are 
forbidden to sell or exchange or in any way 
part with said animal or animals and 
must not be removed from 
present quarters without the written consent of 
the State Veterinarian or an assistant state vet- 
erinarian. 
Dated this day of , 19 
Signed 
State Veterinarian. 
Assistant State Veterinarian. 
Section 4. Whenever in the opinion of the 
North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board any ani- 
mal should be tested by what is known as the 
mallein test for glanders, said original mallein 
test shall be made at state’s expense by an 
agent of the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary 
Board. All animals reacting to the mallein test, when 
accompanied by any clinical symptoms of gland- 
ers or glanders-farcy, shall be condemned and 
destroyed as prescribed in Section 2. 
Animals that react positively to the mallein 
test, but do not display any other symptoms 
suspicious of glanders, shall be condemned and 
destroyed as provided for in Section 2, unless 
the owner or person in charge shall make writ- 
ten request that such animals be placed in quar- 
antine to be subjected to a retest. If such appli- 
cation be made to the North Dakota Livestock 
Sanitary Board or agent of the Board and the 
applicant shall agree with the Board or agent 
of the Board that the applicant shall pay the 
expense of such quarantine and retest required, 
the Board or agent of the Board may order such 
animal into quarantine under such conditions and 
for such time as the Board or agent of the 
Board shall direct and said animal shall be 
branded by having the letter “X” burned on the 
center of right side of neck, said letter to be not 
less than two inches square. 
If upon retesting said animal or animals react 
to the mallein test, then said animal or animals 
shall be condemned and destroyed, in accordance 
with Section 2. • 
Where an animal or animals are retested and 
no reaction secured or no clinical symptoms 
suspicious of glanders are exhibited, said quar- 
antine may be raised, providing the State Vet- 
erinarian or assistant state veterinarian is satis- 
fied that no further infection or exposure exists. 
Regulation No. 5 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO PAYMENT OF 
INDEMNITY FOR STEERS OR UNREGIS- 
TERED BULLS CONDEMNED ON ACCOUNT 
OF TUBERCULOSIS 
(Revised March 6, 1941) 
Section 1. Whereas, the U. S. Bureau of Ani- 
mal Industry has established a regulation pro- 
viding that said department will not pay any 
indemnity on steers or unregistered bulls con- 
demned on account of tuberculosis, therefore, 
the following regulation is enacted by the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board: 
Section 2. Whereas, provision is made by law. 
Chapter 36-1509 of the North Dakota Revised 
Code of 1943, whereby, if the U. S. Bureau 
of Animal Industry fails to provide an equal 
amount of indemnity with the State of North 
Dakota, then the owner shall be paid one- 
half of the difference between the appraised value and the net value of the salvage thereof; 
this regulation providing that such provision of 
the law be complied with. 
Regulation No. 6 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE ESTAB- 
MENT AND MAINTENANCE OF ACCREDITED 
TUBERCULOSIS-FREE HERDS OF CATTLE 
UNDER THE UNIFORM METHODS AND 
RULES UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED BY THE 
UNITED STATES LIVESTOCK SANITARY AS- 
SOCIATION, DECEMBER 7, 1933, AND AP- 
PROVED BY THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL IN- 
DUSTRY, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL- 
TURE, DECEMBER 11, 1933. 
Section 1. Individual Accredited Herd Plan: 
(a) An accredited tuberculosis-free herd of cattle 
is one in which the entire herd has passed 
two negative successive annual physical ex- 
aminations and tuberculin tests, or, upon 
disclosure of infection, three semi-annual 
successive physical examinations and tuber- 
culin tests applied by a veterinarian regu- 
larly employed by the State or the United 
States Bureau of Animal Industry, or by an 
accredited veterinarian who has passed an 
examination conducted by the proper state 
livestock sanitary official and the Bureau 
of Animal Industry and who is approved by 
the proper official of the state in which the 
herd is located. 
(b) When an accredited herd or herd in the pro- 
cess of accreditation is to be tested at the 
expense of the owner by an accredited vet- 
erinarian, the following regulations are to be 
observed: 
(1) The tuberculin test shall be applied on 
dates approved by the proper state live- 
stock sanitary official and the inspector 
in charge of the Bureau of Animal In- 
dustry in the state wherein the herd is 
located. 
(2) The accredited veterinarian shall not 
conduct such tests until after he has 
received written authorization from the 
proper co-operating State and Bureau 
officials. 
(3) The accredited veterinarian shall submit 
a report of such tests in accordance 
with the regulations of the co-operating 
State and Federal authorities. These of- 
ficials reserve the right to supervise any 
(Revised June 24, 1943) tests conducted by an accredited veteri- 
narian. 
(4) The amount of Federal indemnity funds 
for use in the payment of reactors in 
herds being tested by an accredited vet- 
erinarian shall be limited to 15 per 
cent of the total amount of Federal 
indemnity allotted to any State, unless 
an additional allotment for this purpose 
is made available. 
Section 2. The Tuberculin Test: 
(a) The official test shall be the intradermic by 
the single injection, or the double injection 
of the caudal fold and vulva, or the subcut- 
aneous, and either or both of these methods 
in combination with the ophthalmic. 
(b) A herd in which reactors have been found 
shall not become accredited unless the final 
or accrediting test has been made by a com- 
bination of either the subcutaneous and oph- 
thalmic, intradermic and ophthalmic, or by 
the double intradermic caudal fold and vulva 
injection. 
Section 3. The entire herd, or any cattle in 
the herd, shall be tuberculin tested or retested 
at such times as deemed advisable by the co-op- 
erating State and Federal authorities. 
Section 4. No animal shall be presented for the 
tuberculin test which has been designated as a 
reacter at any time. 
Section 5. Reactors to the tuberculin test shall 
be promptly removed from the farm and after 
their removal the infected premises shall be 
thoroughly cleaned and disinfected with a disin- 
fectant approved by the U. S. Bureau of Animal 
Industry. 
Section 6. Herd owners are required to house, 
feed and care for the cattle under such sanitary 
conditions as will tend to promote good health 
and to follow such recommendations as are made 
by the co-operating State and Federal authori- 
ties. 
Section 7. Calves shall not be fed milk or 
other dairy products except: (1) when such milk 
or other dairy products have been produced by 
a herd that is under the plan, or (2) when the 
milk or other dairy products from outside or 
unknown sources shall have been pasteurized by 
heating to 145 degrees F. for 30 minutes. 
Section 8. Herd Records: 
(a) The herd owner is required to establish sat- 
isfactory evidence of the identity of each 
registered or grade animal, the grade animal 
to be marked by a tag or other marking sat- isfactory to the co-operating State and Fed- 
eral authorities. 
(b) Each herd owner is required to keep a rec- 
ord of all additions and removals of cattle 
from the herd by sale, death or slaughter. 
Section 9. All vehicles shall be cleaned and 
disinfected before they are used for transporting 
cattle to herds maintained under this plan. 
Section 10. Added Cattle: 
(a) Cattle may be added to an accredited herd 
in accordance with the following provisions: 
Originating from an accredited herd. 
Originating from a once-tested free herd or 
from a modified accredited area on one ad- 
ditional test applied in from 60 to 90 days, 
and during such period kept separate from 
the herd. 
(b) Cattle may be added to once-tested free 
herds in accordance with the following pro- 
visions: 
From accredited herds, once-tested free 
herds, or modified accredited areas, without 
further test. 
Cattle added to other herds under this plan, 
unless originating in accredited or once- 
tested free herds or modified accredited 
areas, are required to pass a negative tuber- 
culin test within 60 days prior to entry. 
(c) Any cattle remaining in infected herds shall 
not be added to herds under supervision 
except under special permit. 
Section 11. If a retest of an accredited herd 
discloses not more than one reactor, such herd 
may be reaccredited, provided the entire herd 
shall pass a retest applied not less than four 
months from the date of the previous test. If 
a retest of an accredited herd discloses more 
than one reactor, the regulations governing the 
tuberculin testing of infected herds shall apply. 
Section 12. An accredited herd certificate 
shall be valid for one year and shall be issued 
by the co-operating State and Federal authori- 
ties. 
Section 13. Cattle from an accredited herd 
may, subject to regulations of the State of des- 
tination, be moved interstate on a certificate of 
health and tuberculin test chart, which will be 
issued by the co-operating State or Federal offi- 
cial. 
Section 14. Failure on the part of an owner 
to comply with these methods and rules shall 
constitute sufficient cause for the cancellation 
of the agreement. Regulation No. 7 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE CON- 
TROL AND ERADICATION OF AVIAN 
TUBERCULOSIS 
(Revised June 24, 1943) 
Section 1. It having been determined that 
avian tuberculosis is widespread in North Dakota 
and that a large percentage of our poultry flocks 
are infected with this disease and also that a 
high percentage of our hogs are retained on 
account of this disease, the following regulation 
is adopted; 
Section 2. When area avian tuberculosis erad- 
ication work is inaugurated in a township, a 
tuberculin test and physical examination will be 
offered free of charge on all of the flocks in 
such township by an authorized agent of the 
North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board. If and 
after the birds over six months of age in sev- 
enty-five per cent of the flocks in such township 
have been tested it will be mandatory for all 
owners or persons in charge of flocks to submit 
and restrain all birds for test, retests and physi- 
cal examinations, when so requested by an au- 
thorized agent of the North Dakota Livestock 
Sanitary Board and all rules and regulations 
shall then be in effect. 
Section 3. All birds reacting to the tuberculin 
test or found infected as a result of physical 
examination shall be removed immediately for 
slaughter. 
Section 4. All infected premises and utensils 
shall be cleaned by removing all litter, poultry 
droppings and the surface of dirt floors and 
then disinfected with an officially approved dis- 
infection solution. In so far as it is practical to 
do so, all young birds shall be raised on clean 
ground separate from the older birds, or in en- 
closure on wire floor. 
Section 5. It shall be the duty of the flock 
owner or person in charge to remove all birds 
over one year of age that have been exposed 
to reactors or premises where reactors have been 
found not later than September 30th of each 
year and report the same in writing on official 
forms already provided to the North Dakota 
Livestock Sanitary Board. Also clean and disin- 
fect all exposed premises and utensils as de- 
scribed in Section 4 within thirty days after the 
removal of all such birds. 
Section 6. Infected flocks, in which all birds 
over one year of age have not been disposed of 
and reported in accordance with Section 5, shall be quarantined and tuberculin tested at the own- 
er’s expense, providing other funds are not made 
available, until all birds pass two consecutive 
negative tests and then released from quaran- 
tine. 
Section 7. When tuberculosis is found in 
flocks of considerable value on account of breed- 
ing or record of performance and the owner 
agrees to approved tuberculin tests made at 
regular intervals, such flocks may be quaran- 
tined and tuberculin tested until all birds over 
six months of age pass at least two consecutive 
negative tests and then be released from quar- 
antine. 
Section 8. All tests, retests and physical ex- 
aminations of birds shall be made without ex- 
pense to the owner, provided there is compliance 
with the provisions of Sections 2, 3, 4 and 5. 
Section 9. When all birds over six months of 
age in a township have been tested and physi- 
cally examined and the reactors to the test or 
those found infected on physical examination are 
less than one per cent of the number of the 
birds tested and examined, this area may then 
be declared a modified accredited avian tuber- 
culosis-free area for a period of three years. 
Section 10. No birds, except baby chicks, shall 
be brought into a modified avian tuberculosis- 
free area, except those that have passed a nega- 
tive tuberculin test and are accompanied by a 
certificate of such from an approved veterinarian 
and if from an infected flock they shall be held 
separate and apart from other birds until they 
have passed a negative test. 
Regulation No. 8 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO BRANDING 
OF CATTLE CONDEMNED ON ACCOUNT OF 
TUBERCULOSIS AND BRUCELLOSIS 
Section 1. In order to permanently mark cat- 
tle that have reacted to the tuberculin test or 
blood test for brucellosis the following regula- 
tion is enacted by the North Dakota Livestock 
Sanitary Board: 
Section 2. All cattle that give a positive re- 
action to a properly applied tuberculin test and 
are adjudged affected with tuberculosis shall be 
marked by branding the letter “T” on the left 
iaw (the letter to be not less than two nor 
more than three inches high) and by having a 
reactor tag inserted in the left ear. 
Section 3. All cattle that give a positive re- 
action to the agglutination blood test for brucel- 
(Revised January 17, 1945) losis and are adjudged affected with this disease 
shall be marked by branding the letter “B” on 
the left jaw (the letter to be not less than two 
nor more than three inches high) and by having 
a reactor tag inserted in the left ear, or in the 
instance of purebred cattle properly identified 
by registration, tattoo, horn brand or other iden- 
tification, need not be branded or tattooed until 
such time as they are being disposed of for 
slaughter. Grade brucellosis reacting cattle al- 
lowed to remain in brucellosis quarantined herds 
must be conspiciously branded with a hot iron 
so that the brand will be permanent. 
Regulation No. 9 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE CLEAN- 
ING AND DISINFECTION OF COMMERCIAL 
TRUCKS HAULING LIVESTOCK 
Section 1. It being determined that commer- 
cial trucks distribute infectious diseases of live- 
stock from place to place, the following regula- 
tion is hereby adopted: 
Section 2. All truckers doing commercial 
hauling of livestock to and from farms in North 
Dakota must thoroughly clean and disinfect their 
tiucks after each load is delivered and before 
going back to other North Dakota farms. The 
antiseptic used must have a phenol-coefficient 
equivalent to or superior to U. S. P. Liquor 
Cresol Compound. The litter removed from the 
truck must either be burned or soaked in the 
same antiseptic solution as is used to disinfect 
the truck. 
(Effective June 24, 1943) 
Regulation No. 10 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE CLEAN- 
ING AND DISINFECTION OF TRUCKS, TRAIL- 
ERS OR OTHER CONVEYANCES BEING USED 
TO TRANSPORT DISEASED LIVESTOCK TO 
OR TRANSPORT APPARENTLY HEALTHY 
SHEEP AND HOGS FROM PUBLIC 
STOCKYARDS 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
Section 1. It having been determined that the 
use of trucks for the transportation of diseased 
animals is a dangerous procedure and tends to 
spread the various diseases of livestock, unless 
properly cleaned and disinfected after the dis- 
eased animals are unloaded and since a great 
many diseased animals, particularly cattle react- 
ing to the tuberculin test, are moving to public 
stockyards in this state, the following regulation is enacted by the North Dakota Livestock Sani- 
tary Board: 
Section 2. It shall be the duty of every per- 
son, company or corporation hauling diseased 
livestock, including cattle that have reacted to 
the tuberculin and brucellosis test, to public 
stockyards in North Dakota, to cause such truck, 
trailer or conveyance of any kind to be thor- 
oughly cleaned by removing litter, manure or 
refuse from said conveyance and cause said con- 
veyance to be disinfected in such manner as may 
be now or hereafter approved by the United 
States Bureau of Animal Industry before leaving 
the stockyards. 
Section 3. All trucks, trailers or other con- 
veyances must be thoroughly cleaned and disin- 
fected before being used to transport sheep and 
hogs from public stockyards. 
Regulation No. 11 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO MODIFIED 
ACCREDITED BRUCELLOSIS-FREE AREAS 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
Section 1. Under an agreement entered into 
with the United States Bureau of Animal In- 
dustry, the regulation established by said Bur- 
eau, pertaining to modified accredited brucello- 
sis-free areas is hereby adopted. 
Section 2. When area testing has been started 
in any county or township in the State of North 
Dakota or after the county has been established 
by the United States Bureau of Animal Industry 
as a modified accredited brucellosis-free area, no 
cattle shall enter said area except in conform- 
ance with the following provisions: 
Section 3. All cattle, except steers and cattle 
for immediate slaughter, when moved into a 
quarantined area, shall be handled according to 
the following rules: 
Section 4. Cattle from negative herds in modi- ' 
fied accredited brucellosis-free areas or herds 
officially accredited brucellosis-free, according 
to recognized standards, may enter the area 
without being retested for brucellosis. All such 
cattle shall be identified and shall be accompan- 
ied by approved certificates. 
Section 5. All other male or female cattle, ex- 
cept steers and cattle intended for immediate 
slaughter, shall be required to pass a negative 
officially recognized agglutination test for bru- 
cellosis within thirty days prior to the date of 
entry and shall be maintained in quarantine 
separate from other cattle and retested in not less than thirty or more than sixty days after 
the date of entry. If found free, they shall then 
be released from quarantine. 
Section 6. All cattle six months of age or 
over, except steers, in the area shall be tested 
for brucellosis and all cattle reacting to the 
agglutination blood test for this disease in dilu- 
tion of 1:100 or more shall be slaughtered within 
fifteen days of the test and all premises where 
such reacting cattle were located shall be 
cleaned and disinfected within fifteen days of 
the date of the removal of the reacting animals. 
The milk and milk products derived from react- 
ing cattle shall not be used or sold unless 
properly pasteurized. 
Section 7. If, as the result of a test of all 
the cattle required to be tested according to the 
provisions of Section 6 above, the number of re- 
actors does not exceed one per cent nor the herd 
infection exceed five per cent, the area may 
be declared a modified accredited brucellosis-free 
area for a period of three years by the state and 
Federal co-operating agencies in charge of the 
work, provided that all infected herds shall be 
placed in quarantine and the cattle in them re- 
tested for brucellosis at intervals of from thirty 
to ninety days until all of them pass two con- 
secutive negative tests and pass a further nega- 
tive test not less than six months from the date 
of the second negative test. And further provided 
that herds in which brucellosis vaccine is being 
employed and in which any cattle six months of 
age and over are positive to the test for brucel- 
losis shall be maintained under strict quarantine, 
except calf-vaccinated herds in range and semi- 
range areas where it is not practical and for 
the purposes of herd percentages shall be classed 
as infected herds. 
Section 8. At the expiration of the three-year 
period the area may be re-accredited for an ad- 
ditional three-year period if not less than ten 
per cent of all the herds, including ten per cent 
of the cattle six months of age or over, except 
steers, are retested and all herds located in the 
area that were found to contain reactors upon 
the last complete area test or county check test 
for brucellosis are retested, provided that the 
percentages of reactors among the cattle retested 
does not exceed one per cent of all the cattle 
tested in the area. 
Section 9. In areas where the percentage of 
reactors to the test for brucellosis was more 
than one per cent of all cattle tested, the proce- 
dure for reaccreditation of counties should be 
in accordance with methods outlined in Section 
6 above. Regulation No. 12 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO TEST AND 
GRADUAL ELIMINATION OF POSITIVE RE- 
ACTING ANIMALS WITH CALFHOOD VAC- 
CINATION AND WITHOUT INDEMNITIES 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
Section 1. It having been determined that in 
certain herds of cattle the percentage of reactors 
is so high that immediate slaughter of the reac- 
tors is deemed unwarranted, the quarantining of 
all cattle on such premises and the calfhood vac- 
cination of all the female calves may be sub- 
stituted for the regular test and slaughter meth- 
od. 
Section 2. The following classes of herds may 
be considered for this purpose: 
(a) Herds containing animals with valuable 
blood lines. 
(b) Herds in which the number of reactors dis- 
closed makes it economically unsound for the 
owner to immediately slaughter the reactors. 
Section 3. It shall be the duty of any agent 
of the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board, 
if requested by the owner, to report the condi- 
tions in such herds for consideration of calfhood 
vaccination to the State Veterinarian and the 
Inspector in Charge of the U. S. Bureau of 
Animal Industry and in the meantime he shall 
tag and brand all reactors and quarantine the 
entire herd. 
If, after careful consideration the vaccination 
method is officially approved, the owner shall 
sign the following “C” Contract: 
NORTH DAKOTA 
LIVESTOCK SANITARY BOARD 
Bismarck, North Dakota 
Test and Gradual Elimination of Positive Re- 
acting Animals with Calfhood Vaccination and 
without Indemnities not to be used except in 
Purebred Herds or in Grade Herds of Outstand- 
ing Quality and when Owner is Reliable. 
Dated , 19 
1. I, - 
(Name of Owner) (Address) 
at my request, hereby agree to place my 
herd of cattle at the disposal of the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board for the 
expressed purpose of carrying on calfhood 
vaccination as a measure in attempting the 
control of brucellosis in my herd. 
“C” Contract 2. I agree not to make any claim whatever 
against said North Dakota Livestock Sanitary 
Board or its representatives for any unfav- 
orable results that may in any way be attrib- 
uted to the use of vaccine. 
3. I agree to furnish said North Dakota Live- 
stock Sanitary Board with such information 
concerning my herd of cattle as may be con- 
sidered of importance. 
4. I agree to keep my cattle separate and 
apart from all other cattle. 
5. I agree that no cattle having an unsatis- 
factory blood titer be removed from the 
herd, except for immediate slaughter. 
6. I agree to assemble and assist in the vac- 
cination of all calves between four and eight 
months of age. 
7. I agree to cause the slaughter of all reac- 
tors at my convenience without indemnity. 
8. I agree to permit and assist in the marking 
of all positive reacting animals over two 
years of age, as required by the North Da- 
kota Livestock Sanitary Board. 
9. I agree to furnish the North Dakota Live- 
stock Sanitary Board with the ear tag num- 
bers of all reactors removed for slaughter 
immediately upon their disposal, including 
the name and address of the commission 
firm or slaughtering establishment. 
10. The North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board 
agrees to furnish all veterinary services and 
vaccine in so far as provided by available 
funds or co-operating agencies. 
Witness: 
Signed: 
Witness; 
Signed: 
A designated agent shall vaccinate all female 
cattle between the ages of four and eight months 
and all such future increases until all animals 
in the herd over two years of age reveal at 
least two negative reactions to official blood 
agglutination tests not less than six months apart, 
when nonvaccinated heifers under two years 
shall similarly be proved negative to the test 
and when vaccinated animals under two years 
show either a satisfactory decline in titer or are 
removed for slaughter. 
In order to determine that such vaccinated 
herds are maintained free of this disease and 
that titers of vaccinated animals are apparently 
safe, these herds shall be retested as frequently 
as deemed necessary by the State Veterinarian 
and Inspector in Charge of the U. S. Bureau of 
Animal Industry. No indemnity will be allowed on reactors 
from such herds, unless they are slaughtered 
within fifteen days of date of officially author- 
ized appraisal, except for meritorious reasons. 
Vaccination will not be permitted unless done 
by an authorized veterinarian, acting as an agent 
of the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board, 
with vaccine approved by the North Dakota 
Livestock Sanitary Board; such vaccination to 
be reported, in duplicate, in a manner officially 
designated. 
All animals so vaccinated must be perma- 
nently marked by a method approved by the 
State Veterinarian and a quarantine is to be 
served on owners of all such herds. 
Regulation No. 13 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE VACCIN- 
ATION OF ADULT CATTLE IN SERIOUSLY 
BRUCELLOSIS INFECTED HERDS 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
Section 1. It having been determined that in 
certain herds of cattle the percentage of reactors 
is so high and the virulence of the infection so 
great that the elimination of the disease by test 
and slaughter of cattle is deemed economically 
unsound, the slaughter of all reacting cattle on 
such premises and the vaccination of all female 
cattle may be substituted for the continual test 
and slaughter method, providing the owner of 
such cattle is a man of dependable character 
and the following “D” Contract is signed: 
NORTH DAKOTA 
LIVESTOCK SANITARY BOARD 
Bismarck, North Dakota 
“D” Contract 
Test and Elimination of Positive Reacting Ani- 
mals with Vaccination of All Female Cattle over 
Four Months of Age and with Indemnities on 
Cattle Condemned and Slaughtered Prior to 
Adult Vaccination. 
Dated , 19 
1. I, 
(Name of Owner) (Address) 
hereby request the North Dakota Livestock 
Sanitary Board to carry on vaccination as a 
measure in attempting the control of brucel- 
losis in my herd. 
2. I agree not to make any claim whatever 
against said North Dakota Livestock Sanitary 
Board, the U. S. Government, or its represen- 
tatives for any unfavorable results that may in any way be attributed to the use of vac- 
cine. 
3. I agree to furnish said North Dakota Live- 
stock Sanitary Board with such information 
concerning my herd of cattle as may be con- 
sidered of importance. 
4. I agree to ship for slaughter all cattle react- 
ing to the test prior to vaccinating any cattle 
over eight (8) months old. 
5. I agree to restrain all cattle and assist in the 
complete blood testing, vaccination or identi- 
fication of all my cattle, as deemed necessary 
by the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary 
Board for the purpose of determining the 
condition of the herd with reference to bru- 
cellosis. 
6. I agree that no cattle having an unsatisfac- 
tory blood titer be removed from the herd 
except for immediate slaughter or by per- 
mission of the North Dakota Livestock Sani- 
tary Board. 
7. I agree to furnish the North Dakota Livestock 
Sanitary Board with the ear tag numbers of 
all reactors removed for slaughter, including 
the name and address of the commission firm 
or slaughtering establishment and secure pro- 
per permit to ship. 
8. I agree not to permit the use of milk for 
human consumption from cows vaccinated as 
adults unless it is pasteurized. 
9. The North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board 
agrees to furnish all veterinary services and 
vaccine in so far as provided by available 
funds or co-operating agencies. 
Witness: 
Signed: 
Witness: 
Section 2. It shall be the duty of any agent 
of the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board, 
if requested by the owner, to report the condi- 
tions in such herds for consideration of calfhood 
and adult vaccination to the State Veterinarian 
and the Inspector in Charge of the U. S. Bureau 
of Animal Industry. In the meantime he shall 
tag and brand all reactors and quarantine the 
entire herd. If, after careful consideration, adult 
vaccination is decided upon as a measure de- 
signed to control and eventually eradicate bru- 
cellosis from the herd, the reacting cattle shall 
be appraisepl and shipped for slaughter and all 
the remaining female cattle shall be vaccinated, 
including the calves over four months of age 
and all such future increases; this herd then to 
remain in quarantine and not to be retested, 
except for purposes of information as to the number still showing high titers. If at any such 
future tests the percentage of adult animals 
showing reactions is low enough, the owner 
may elect to slaughter the remaining reacting 
animals and proceed by testing to secure a 
brucellosis-free herd. 
No indemnity will be allowed on reactors 
from such herds, except those which were con- 
demned prior to vaccination and which must be 
taken out within a prescribed time set by the 
U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry. 
Vaccination will not be permitted, unless done 
by an authorized agent, approved by the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board, with an ap- 
proved vaccine; such vaccination to be reported, 
in duplicate, in the manner officially designated, 
and all animals so vaccinated must be perma- 
nently marked, as outlined in Regulation No. 12. 
Regulation No. 14 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE ESTAB- 
LISHMENT OF ACCREDITED BRUCELLOSIS- 
FREE HERDS 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
SECTION I. 
Defining Bovine Brucellosis 
An animal shall be declared infected with 
brucellosis if it has given a positive reaction to 
the blood test made by a laboratory approved 
by the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board. 
SECTION II. 
Defining Accredited Brucellosis-Free Herds and 
giving Rules for Handling and Maintaining 
Such Herds 
1. An Accredited Brucellosis-Free Herd is 
one in which no reactors to the blood test have 
been found covering a period of at least one 
year. Three negative blood tests must have 
been made at least six months apart. 
2. The herd must be maintained accredited 
tuberculosis-free. 
3. The herd owner must place his herd under 
the supervision of the North Dakota Livestock 
Sanitary Board for the prevention, repression 
and eradication of brucellosis. All work will be 
conducted in co-operation with the owner and 
his veterinarian, providing he is approved by the 
North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board. 
4. History of herd must be obtained. Blood 
must be collected from all animals in the herd, 
both male and female, and the blood tested by a laboratory approved by the North Dakota Live- 
stock Sanitary Board. 
Note: After the herd has been found negative 
the animals not old enough to breed need not 
be tested. They should be blood tested twice, 
however, before being bred, and all animals in 
the herd should be blood tested once yearly. 
5. All cattle in the herd must be properly 
identified by tattoo, horn number or ear tag 
number. 
6. If the first blood test shows reactors they 
shall either be disposed of in a manner satis- 
factory to the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary 
Board or placed on separate premises. The 
original premises must be thoroughly disinfected. 
A retest should be applied in thirty to sixty days, 
and any additional reactors disposed of imme- 
diately, as herein provided. 
7. The herd shall be blood tested at such 
intervals as deemed advisable by the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board, but in no in- 
stance shall more than one year elapse between 
blood tests. Reactors shall be handled as pro- 
vided in Section 2, Paragraph 6. 
8. If an animal aborts it must be immediately 
isolated and reported by the owner to the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board. The place 
where the abortion occurred must be thoroughly 
disinfected and the fetus and membranes pro- 
perly disposed of. 
9. The herd bulls must not be used for public 
service, except on cattle that have been blood 
tested and found free from brucellosis. Service 
must be on neutral ground. 
10. All milk and other dairy products fed shall 
either be pasteurized or be produced by an ac- 
credited brucellosis-free herd. 
11. All cattle, with the exception of calves 
under six months of age, to be added, other 
than those from accredited brucellosis-free herds, 
must pass a blood test approved by the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board and must be 
isolated; they must pass a second blood test 
approved by the North Dakota Sanitary Board, 
made not earlier than sixty days nor later than 
one hundred and twenty days. Calves under six 
months of age may be added to the herd after 
having passed one satisfactory test. 
12. Pregnant animals, other than those from 
accredited brucellosis-free herds, to be added, 
must be isolated until after having calved, and 
must pass a satisfactory blood test not earlier 
than three weeks after having calved. 
13. An accredited brucellosis-free herd certifi- 
cate will be issued to the herd owner complying with the provisions of this regulation—the cer- 
tificate being valid for one year. 
Regulation No. 15 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE ESTAB- 
LISHMENT OF ACCREDITED BRUCELLOSIS- 
FREE VACCINATED HERDS 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
SECTION I 
Defining Bovine Brucellosis 
(Bang’s Disease) 
Any animal shall be declared infected with 
brucellosis if it has given a positive reaction to 
the blood test made by a laboratory approved by 
the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board. 
SECTION II 
Defining Accredited Brucellosis-free Vaccinated 
Herds and Giving Rules for Handling and 
Maintaining Such Herds 
1. An accredited brucellosis-free vaccinated 
herd is one in which no reactors to the blood 
test have been found covering a period of at 
least one year, and in which all female calves 
born in the herd or any added female calves 
have been vaccinated under supervision between 
the ages of four and eight months of age with 
Strain 19. Three negative blood tests must have 
been made at least six months apart. 
2. The herd must be maintained accredited 
tuberculosis-free. 
3. The herd owner must place his herd under 
the supervision of the North Dakota Livestock 
Sanitary Board for the prevention, repression 
and eradication of brucellosis. All work will be 
conducted in co-operation with the owner and 
his veterinarian, providing he is approved by the 
North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board. 
4. History of herd must be obtained. Blood 
must be collected from all animals in the herd, 
both male and female, and the blood tested by 
a laboratory approved by the North Dakota 
Livestock Sanitary Board. 
5. All cattle in the herd must be properly 
identified by tattoo, horn number or ear tag 
number. All vaccinated calves must be perma- 
nently identified by tattoo or other identification 
showing that they have been vaccinated. 
6. If the first blood test shows reactors they 
shall either be disposed of in a manner satis- 
factory to the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary 
Board or placed on separate premises. The origi- 
nal premises must be thoroughly cleaned and 
disinfected. A retest should be applied in thirty to sixty days, and any additional reactors dis- 
posed of immediately, as herein provided. All 
vaccinated female cattle that do not show a 
falling blood titer or are completely negative at 
eighteen months of age must be removed from 
the herd. 
7. The herd shall be blood tested at such in- 
tervals as deemed advisable by the North Da- 
kota Livestock Sanitary Board, but in no in- 
stance shall more than one year elapse between 
blood tests. Reactors shall be handled as pro- 
vided in Section 2, Paragraph 6. 
8. If an animal aborts it must be immediately 
isolated and reported by the owner to the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board. The place 
where the abortion occurred must be thoroughly 
disinfected and the fetus and membranes pro- 
perly disposed of. 
9. The herd bulls must not be used for public 
service, except on cattle that have been blood 
tested and found free from brucellosis. Service 
must be on neutral ground. 
10. All vaccinated calves must be completely 
negative to the blood test by the time they are 
twenty-four months of age or removed and 
handled as reactors. 
11. All milk and other dairy products fed 
shall either be pasteurized or be produced by 
an accredited brucellosis-free herd. 
12. All cattle, with the exception of calves 
under eight months of age, to be added, other 
than those from accredited brucellosis-free herds, 
must pass a blood test approved by the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board and must be 
isolated; they must pass a second blood test 
approved by the North Dakota Livestock Sani- 
tary Board, made not earlier than sixty days 
nor later than one hundred and twenty days. 
Calves under eight months of age may be added 
to the herd after having passed one satisfactory 
negative blood test, provided they are immedi- 
ately vaccinated with Strain 19. 
13. Pregnant animals, other than those from 
accredited brucellosis-free herds, to be added, 
must be isolated until after having calved, and 
must pass a satisfactory blood test not earlier 
than three weeks after having calved. 
14. An accredited brucellosis-free vaccinated 
herd certificate will be issued to the herd owner 
complying with the provisions of this regulation; 
the certificate being valid for one year. Regulation No. 16 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO VACCINA- 
TION OF CALVES FOUR TO EIGHT MONTHS 
OLD BY LICENSED VETERINARIANS EM- 
PLOYED BY THE OWNER OF THE CATTLE 
(Effective January 17, 1945) 
Section 1. It having been fairly well deter- 
mined that the vaccination of calves between 
the ages of four and eight months of age with 
Brucella Abortus Vaccine Strain 19 does not in 
any way tend to spread abortion among cattle 
or endanger the milk supply for human use but 
does on the other hand give such vaccinated 
animals considerable additional resistance against 
brucellosis, the following regulation is therefore 
adopted: 
Section 2. If calves between the ages of four 
and eight months only are to be vaccinated the 
attending veterinarian need not test the entire 
herd or request any kind of agreement of the 
owner, but no vaccine is to be administered to 
animals over eight months of age without first 
securing a permit for so doing from the State 
Veterinarian. Such permit will not be given 
unless the entire herd has been tested and a 
record of such test sent in to the State Office, 
accompanied by an application from the attend- 
ing veterinarian to be permitted to vaccinate 
such animals in order to control an outbreak 
of brucellosis. 
Section 3. All animals vaccinated with Bru- 
cella Abortus Vaccine shall be permanently iden- 
tified by a “V” notch cut in the lower part of 
the right ear and an identification tag placed 
in the same ear. 
Section 4. The veterinarian administering the 
vaccine shall report all animals vaccinated to 
the Livestock Sanitary Board on Form R18V, 
in duplicate, and shall furnish all information 
required on the form. 
Regulation No. 17 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE CON- 
TROL OF SCABIES OF CATTLE 
(Revised June 24, 1943) 
Section 1. Since scabies of cattle can only be 
eradicated by dipping in certain recommended 
dips at proper intervals of time and under 
trained supervision, the following regulation is 
enacted by the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary 
Board to control the spread of this disease: 
Section 2. Whenever cattle are known to be 
affected with or exposed to scabies they shall be quarantined and dipped under the supervision 
of an agent of the North Dakota Livestock 
Sanitary Board or an agent of the United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry. After the cattle have 
been dipped the required number of times the 
quarantine must be continued until future in- 
spection shows them to be free from this disease. 
Section 3. If a lime and sulphur or nicotine 
sulphate dip is used the cattle must be dipped 
at least twice and as often as necessary to cure 
them. Animals showing lesions of scabies should 
be hand-treated previous to their being dipped 
and should be held in the dipping solution at 
least two minutes. The dipping solution must be 
heated and held at a temperature of not less 
than 95 degrees nor more than 110 degrees 
Fahrenheit. If oil float or oil emulsion dip is 
used the dip need not be heated nor the animals 
held in the dip. 
The second dipping must follow in not less 
than ten nor more than fourteen days from 
the ,time of the first dipping. Subsequent dip- 
pings, if necessary, will follow the last dipping 
in not less than ten nor more than fourteen 
days. In all the dippings the animals must be 
completely submerged in the dip 'at least once. 
Dipping solutions must be maintained at proper 
standards, the dipping vat clean and a new dip 
provided whenever the dip breaks down or 
becomes filthy, regardless of the number of 
cattle dipped in it. 
In case of sarcoptic mange dippings must not 
be less than six nor more than ten days apart 
and if lime and sulphur or nicotine sulphate 
solutions are used not less than four dippings 
must be made. 
Regulation No. 18 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE CON- 
TROL OF SCABIES OF SHEEP 
(Revised March 6, 1941) 
Section 1. Since scabies of sheep can only be 
eradicated by dipping in certain recommended 
dips at proper intervals of time and under 
trained supervision, the following regulation is 
enacted by the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary 
Board to control the spread of this disease: 
Section 2. All sheep affected with or exposed 
to scabies shall be kept in quarantine away from 
all other sheep and, if possible, within an inside 
enclosure. 
All sheep affected with or exposed to sheep 
scabies must be dipped not less than twice and 
as often as is necessary to cure the disease in an official dip and under the supervision of an 
agent of the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary 
Board or an agent of the United States Bureau 
of Animal Industry. 
Section 3. Visibly affected sheep should be 
separated from the balance of the flock and hand 
treated several times before being held in the 
dipping solution for not less than two minutes. 
The dipping solution must be maintained at 
proper standards, heated and held at a tempera- 
ture of not less than 95 degrees nor more than 
110 degrees Fahrenheit. 
Sheep that have been only exposed to scabies 
need only be held in the dipping solution the 
required two minutes. 
The second dipping must follow the first dip- 
ping in not less than ten nor more than four- 
teen days. Subsequent dippings, if necessary, 
will follow the last dipping in not less than ten 
nor more than fourteen days. In all the dippings 
the animals must be completely submerged in 
the dip at least once. 
Section 4. As soon as the sheep have been 
dipped twice they should be removed to clean 
quarters. The quarantine shall be continued for 
not less than ninety days after the last dipping 
and as much longer as may be necessary to 
determine whether or not the disease has been 
eradicated. 
Regulation No. 19 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE 
CONTROL OF ANTHRAX 
(Revised March 6, 1941) 
Section 1. Anthrax being a serious infectious 
disease of livestock, and which is disseminated 
by the improper disposition of excrement and 
blood from animals affected with anthrax or 
from carcasses of animals dead from this disease, 
the following regulation is enacted by the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board to control the 
spread of this disease: 
Section 2. Whenever an animal or animals 
have been adjudged infected with or have died 
from anthrax, as determined by an agent of the 
North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board either 
by clinical, post-mortem or laboratory examina- 
tion, it is necessary that this regulation be 
strictly adhered to. 
Section 3. All sick animals must be segre- 
gated from the healthy animals and all excre- 
ment and blood therefrom must be destroyed 
by burning. Section 4. All livestock on the infected farm 
where animals are dying of anthrax should be 
treated with anthrax serum, the dose depending 
on whether or not they are carrying an elevated 
temperature. Later they should all be vaccinated, 
using an anthrax vaccine manufactured by a 
reliable company. Intradermic anthrax spore 
vaccine is recommended for all classes of live- 
stock. Care should be taken, however, in 
using this vaccine on horses. They should not 
be worked the day they are being vaccinated 
or for several days after vaccination. If this 
cannot be avoided, it is recommended that an- 
thrax aggressin be used on the horses. All vac- 
cinated animals must be maintained in quaran- 
tine for thirty days after the last animal died 
or for thirty days after vaccination. 
Section 5. As anthrax germs after leaving the 
animal’s body change to spores and in this con- 
dition are very resistant and live for years in 
the soil animals that have died from this disease 
must be completely burned at the place where 
they died, if possible. If the dead animals must 
be moved, all body openings should be plugged 
with cotton saturated with some strong anti- 
septic solution—pure formaldehyde being recom- 
mended. The dead animals must not be dragged 
over the ground but must be moved on some 
suitable conveyor. If it is impossible to burn 
the dead animals and burial is resorted to, it 
should be on high ground away from all wells 
and streams and fenced away from all livestock. 
The carcasses should be placed at least six feet 
below the surface of the ground with a foot of 
lime under and over the carcasses. 
Section 6. Livestock owners should be warned 
not to skin animals that have died from anthrax, 
as this disease is transmissible to human beings 
as well as all domestic animals. Further, it is 
unlawful to sell hides removed from animals 
that have died from anthrax. 
Regulation No. 20 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO RABIES 
(Revised March 6, 1941) 
Section 1. This regulation is established for 
the purpose of co-operating with the State 
Health Department and city and county health 
officers in the control and eradication of rabies 
in animals and the protection of public health. 
Section 2. How Reported.) Whenever a phy- 
sician or other person has knowledge that any 
person or animal has been bitten or injured by 
a dog or other animal infected or suspected of 
being infected with rabies, and whenever he has 
knowledge of a case of rabies or suspected rab- ies, he shall report that fact immediately to the 
nearest health officer. The local health officer 
shall then transmit this report to the State 
Health Department and the State Livestock Sani- 
tary Board, by wire or telephone. The State Vet- 
erinarian shall direct such investigation as is 
deemed advisable and report the findings of said 
investigation to the State Health Department or 
nearest city or county health officer. 
Section 3. Suspected Animals Should Be 
Killed,) When animals are suspected of being 
infected with rabies they should be effectively 
quarantined by being closely confined under the 
direction and close observation of the local 
health officer or an authorized agent of the State 
Livestock Sanitary Board. When a dog or other 
animal shows positive symptoms of rabies it 
shall be immediately killed in such a manner 
as to preserve the brain intact. Heads of animals 
which have been killed on account of suspected 
rabies or those that have died from suspected 
rabies should be packed in a sealed metal con- 
tainer, and this container should be packed in 
ice and immediately sent to the State Labora- 
tory, State College Station, Fargo, North Da- 
kota, for examination; or if the brain is care- 
fully removed from the skull and immersed in 
50% glycerine and water in a sealed glass con- 
tainer, it will arrive at the laboratory in satis- 
factory condition for examination. When an 
animal is killed in the early stages of the disease 
it is always difficult and often impossible to find 
the negri bodies. Whereas, the process is com- 
paratively simple in the latter stages of the dis- 
ease. 
Section 4. Treatment for Rabies.) Any per- 
son who has been bitten by a rabid animal 
should at once secure the Pasteur treatment. 
Section 5. Methods of Quarantine and Im- 
munization.) Whenever a case of rabies or sus- 
pected rabies has been reported to either the 
State Livestock Sanitary Board or to the State 
Health Department a strict quarantine of all dogs 
or other animals susceptible to rabies may be 
ordered under the direct supervision of the 
State Veterinarian or his authorized agents, 
covering as large an area for such period of 
time as in their judgment seems reasonable and 
necessary. Quarantine in such cases shall consist 
in effectively muzzling and closely confining all 
dogs and other animals susceptible to rabies in 
the quarantined area in a manner as directed by 
the State Veterinarian and the State Health Of- 
ficer; provided, that any dog or other animal 
under quarantine having been properly immun- 
ized and certified to by the State Veterinarian, may be released from quarantine after a period 
of twenty-one days. 
Regulation No. 21 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE USE OF 
VIRULENT PRODUCTS IN THE TREATMENT 
OF ANY DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
IN NORTH DAKOTA 
(Revised June 24, 1943) 
Section 1. It having been determined that 
the unrestricted use of certain virulent products 
is a dangerous procedure and, in some instances, 
is attended with disastrous results, the following 
regulation is enacted by the North Dakota Live- 
stock Sanitary Board: 
Section 2. All persons, firms or corporations 
are prohibited from selling, distributing or using 
any live germs, cultures or virulent products 
for the treatment of any domestic animals in 
this state, except with the approval of the Bac- 
teriologist and Consulting Veterinarian of the 
North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board. Drug- 
gists may secure a permit to sell hog cholera 
virus in North Dakota, but only after they 
have signed the following agreement with the 
Bacteriologist and Consulting Veterinarian of the 
North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board, State 
College Station, Fargo, North Dakota: 
“I, , representing the 
Drug Company, 
North Dakota, due to the presence of hog 
cholera in my trade territory and the 
demand from some of the people for hog 
cholera virus, do hereby request a per- 
mit to sell virus, as required in Section 
2 of North Dakota Livestock Sanitary 
Board Regulation No. 21. 
I agree to furnish the North Dakota 
Livestock Sanitary Board each week 
with the names and addresses of all 
people to whom I sell virus, giving the 
amount sold, etc. 
I agree not to sell virus except to owners 
of hogs to be used on their own hogs. 
I further agree not to push the sale of 
virus by scaring people as to the danger 
of hog cholera existing and I will do all 
in my power to give proper advice in 
the administration of this product—cau- 
tioning everyone of the bad results if 
the virus is not properly taken care of 
and administered.” 
With each sale of hog cholera virus the drug- 
gist must furnish a “Keep Out” placard and directions for administering the virus, both of 
which are to be furnished to all permit holders 
by the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board, 
Bismarck, North Dakota. 
Regulation No. 22 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE FEED- 
ING OF UNCOOKED GARBAGE TO SWINE 
(Revised June 24, 1943) 
Section 1. It having been determined that in 
many instances outbreaks of hog cholera have 
developed through the feeding of uncooked gar- 
bage to hogs not immune against hog cholera, 
the following regulation is enacted by the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board; 
Section 2. Uncooked garbage shall be con- 
strued to mean table scraps, kitchen scraps from 
hotels and restaurants and meat scraps from 
butcher shops that have not been submitted to 
a cooking process at a temperature of 180 
degrees F. for a period of fifteen minutes. 
Section 3. Premises where uncooked garbage 
is being fed shall be construed as being exposed 
to hog cholera and subject to rigid quarantine. 
Section 4. All hogs being fed uncooked gar- 
bage as defined in Section 2 must be immunized 
within a period of ten days after being placed 
on uncooked garbage by receiving the simultan- 
eous treatment against hog cholera. 
Regulation No. 23 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE USE OF 
HOG CHOLERA VIRUS IN THE DOUBLE OR 
SIMULTANEOUS TREATMENT OF SWINE 
AGAINST HOG CHOLERA 
(Revised June 24, 1943) 
Section 1. It having been determined that the 
use of hog cholera virus is a dangerous proce- 
dure and tends to spread hog cholera unless 
properly applied and used under rigid restric- 
tions, the following regulation is enacted by the 
North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board to con- 
trol the spread of this disease: 
Section 2. In all cases where hog cholera 
virus is used all swine must be confined in en- 
closed premises or within a hog and dog-tight 
lot not to exceed five acres in extent and not 
adjacent to any highway, for a period of not 
less than thirty days after treatment, and prem- 
ises to be properly quarantined and placarded. 
Section 3. After period of confinement has 
elapsed all hogs must be properly dipped or sprayed in an officially approved antiseptic solu- 
tion, and the premises properly cleaned and dis- 
infected before the quarantine is raised. 
Section 4. Public stockyards where the buy- 
ing and selling of hogs is carried on shall be 
construed as cholera-infected premises. Where 
hog cholera virus is used in treating swine at 
such public stockyards the rules of the Secretary 
of the U. S. Department of Agriculture as ap- 
plied to public stockyards shall prevail. Further 
provided that all swine originating from said 
public stockyards must be segregated and held 
in quarantine as provided in Section 2 of this 
regulation. 
Regulation No. 24 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE 
CONTROL OF HOG CHOLERA 
(Revised March 6, 1941) 
Section 1. It having been determined that 
hog cholera is one of the most infectious of all 
animal diseases and is spread by improper dis- 
position of carcasses and by attendants and other 
persons going from infected to non-infected pens 
without proper disinfection, the following regu- 
lation is enacted by the North Dakota Livestock 
Sanitary Board to control the spread of this 
disease: 
Section 2. The sudden death of hogs should 
lead the owner to suspect cholera and a careful 
examination should be made by a veterinarian. 
If hog cholera is found to exist the premises 
must be posted by having a placard bearing the 
words “QUARANTINE—HOG CHOLERA—KEEP 
OUT” placed in a conspicuous place near the 
entrance to premises until the quarantine is 
raised. All unaffected hogs should be immedi- 
ately vaccinated by a licensed veterinarian. 
(Section 3 of Regulation No. 15 was amended 
October 16, 1941, to read, as follows:) 
All hogs that have died from cholera must be 
deeply buried or burned or be given to a li- 
censed rendering plant within twenty-four hours 
after death. Pens that have contained hogs 
affected with cholera should be thoroughly 
cleaned and disinfected, using a 3% solution 
of liquor cresol compound. Hog lots that have 
contained cholera hogs should be deeply plowed. 
Section 4. Hogs showing symptoms of hog 
cholera or other communicable diseases must 
not be conveyed upon any public highway, nor 
must an owner negligently or wilfully allow 
such hogs to run at large. Section 5. No hogs exposed to hog cholera or 
other communicable diseases shall be shipped, 
trailed, driven or otherwise moved within North 
Dakota for any purpose except on permit issued 
by the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board, 
its authorized agents or any licensed veterinar- 
ian. Such permit shall be marked “EXPOSED 
HOGS FOR IMMEDIATE SLAUGHTER” and 
shall be made out in triplicate, one copy to 
accompany the shipment of hogs, one to be de- 
livered to the Inspector in charge of the slaught- 
ering establishment and the third copy to be 
mailed to the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary 
Board, Bismarck, North Dakota. 
Hogs moved on such a permit must be appar- 
ently healthy at the time of loading and shall 
not be diverted en route for any other purpose 
and can only be shipped for slaughter where 
federal inspection is maintained. 
Cars, trucks and any other vehicles, yards, 
pens and all premises which have contained 
such hogs shall be cleaned and disinfected. 
(Regulation No. 15 was amended October 16, 
1941, by adding Section 6, which reads, as 
follows:) 
When hog cholera virus is used on hogs they 
must be held in quarantine not less than thirty 
days and they must not be used for food during 
this period. A “Keep Out” placard must be 
posted in a conspicuous place where it may be 
seen by everyone and it must remain in place 
at least thirty* days. Should any hogs die they 
should be taken care of as outlined in Section 3. 
Regulation No. 25 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE 
CONTROL OF SWINE ERYSIPELAS 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
Section 1. It having been determined that 
swine erysipelas has gained such a foothold in 
certain sections in our State, as to preclude its 
controLby any other than the culture and serum 
vaccination the following regulation is enacted 
by the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board 
to control the spread of the disease. 
Section 2. All licensed veterinarians in this 
State are approved by this department to secure 
erysipelas culture for use on erysipelas infected 
farms and such approval will be continued pro- 
viding all directions are followed. That the cul- 
ture be used only on farms where the disease is 
known to exist and providing proper reports are 
made as required by the Bureau of Animal In- 
dustry and the Livestock Sanitary Board. Regulation No. 26 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE 
CONTROL OF PULLORUM DISEASE 
(Revised May 28, 1942) 
Section 1. Pullorum disease being a serious 
infectious disease of poultry which is dissemin- 
ated by the sale and purchase of infected eggs 
and chicks, the following regulation is enacted 
by the North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board 
to control the spread of this disease: 
Section 2. All provisions for the classification, 
recognition, control and eradication of pullorum 
disease, as contained in the latest revised issue 
of the U. S. D. A. Miscellaneous publication No. 
300, shall be recognized in North Dakota and 
all regulatory provisions therein shall be con- 
strued as being part of this regulation. 
Section 3. Chickens for breeding purposes 
shall not be imported into the state of North 
Dakota unless they originate from flocks authori- 
tatively participating in the pullorum control and 
eradication phase of the National Poultry Im- 
provement Plan, as provided in the latest revised 
issue of U. S. D. A. Miscellaneous publication 
No. 300, or have passed a negative agglutination 
blood test for pullorum disease under the super- 
vision of a state livestock sanitary authority 
within thirty days of date of sale. Baby chicks 
or hatching eggs shall not be shipped into the 
State of North Dakota or sold by hatcheries or 
others within the State unless they originate 
from flocks authoritatively participating in the 
pullorum control and eradication phase of the 
National Poultry Improvement Plan, as provided 
in the latest revised issue of the U. S. D. A. Mis- 
cellaneous Publication No. 300, or from flocks 
that have met comparable requirements under 
the supervision of a recognized State Livestock 
Sanitary Authority. 
Each crate, package, or container of hatching 
eggs, baby chicks, started chicks, or chicken 
breeding stock must carry an attached label 
showing authority for the testing and the pull- 
orum control and eradication class of the pro- 
duct. 
Regulation No. 27 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO SALARIES OF 
AGENTS OF THE NORTH DAKOTA 
LIVESTOCK SANITARY BOARD 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
Section 1. Whenever an agent of the Live- 
stock Sanitary Board applies the intradermic 
tuberculin test to cattle or is engaged in brucel- losis eradication, or both, he shall receive for 
such services, if paid on a per diem basis, an 
amount not to exceed $12.00 per day and actual 
expenses. This rate shall also apply to the vac- 
cination of livestock against anthrax and to 
supervising the dipping of cattle or sheep. 
Section 2. The maximum charge for all other 
services not specified above shall not exceed 
$8.00 per day and actual expenses. 
Section 3. The veterinarian is to charge for 
the use of his own car at the rate prescribed 
by law. 
Regulation No. 28 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO MAXIMUM 
CHARGES TO BE MADE BY VETERINARIANS 
MAKING INSPECTIONS OR APPLYING TU- 
BERCULIN AUD BRUCELLOSIS TESTS TO 
LIVESTOCK WHERE ANIMALS ARE 
BEING MOVED INTERSTATE 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
Section 1. It being impossible to establish a 
rigid regulation that will be fair under all 
conditions, the charges should be modified ac- 
cordingly by the veterinarian making the inspec- 
tions or applying the various tests to livestock 
intended for interstate shipment. 
Section 2. Where a veterinarian, in order to 
make inspections or tuberculin tests, is com- 
pelled to leave his station and devote his entire 
time to said trip and inspections or tests, $10.00 
per day and actual expenses shall be considered 
a legitimate charge. If the brucellosis test is to 
be made, a similar charge shall be considered 
legitimate, except in the instance where more 
than 15 head are to be tested an additional 
charge of 50c per head for all animals over 15 
shall be considered a legitimate charge. 
Section 3. Where a veterinarian makes such 
inspections or tests at his own station, allowing 
him to perform other duties while making such 
inspections or tests, a charge not to exceed $3.00 
for the first head nor more than $5.00 per car, 
for inspections only, shall be considered legiti- 
mate. In the instance of brucellosis or TB. tests, 
or both, if required, a charge not to exceed $3.00 
for the first head and 75c for each additional 
head shall be considered legitimate. 
Section 4. The above-mentioned inspections 
and tests must be made in accordance with the 
laws and regulations of the state to which the 
livestock is destined. Regulation No. 29 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO THE SCHED- 
ULE TO BE FOLLOWED BY VETERINARIANS 
GOVERNING PRICES TO BE CHARGED AT 
COMMUNITY SALES 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
Section 1. House Bill No. 224 requires that 
the Livestock Sanitary Board set the prices to 
be charged at all community livestock sales and 
stockyards. 
Section 2. It being impossible to establish a 
rigid regulation that will be fair under all condi- 
tions, the charges listed below are both maxi- 
mum and minimum charges and the veterinar- 
ians must modify them to suit the special con- 
ditions under which they work. In large sale- 
yards the price charged for the brucellosis test 
should be materially reduced below the maxi- 
mum rate as prescribed in this schedule. 
Section 3. Where- a veterinarian is compelled 
to leave his station in order to make the in- 
spections and apply the tests required under this 
law he shall be allowed to charge the same 
rate of mileage as that established by the State. 
Section 4. The veterinarian shall receive a 
minimum fee of $10.00 for making the required 
inspections and issuing health certificates and 
proper passes out of the sales ring, as required. 
For the brucellosis testing of cattle the fee 
shall not exceed 75c per head and for the 
injection of hog cholera serum the fee shall not 
exceed 15c per hog and the retail cost of the 
serum. 
Regulation No. 30 
REGULATION PERTAINING TO MAXIMUM 
CHARGES TO BE MADE BY VETERINARIANS 
FOR INSPECTING, TESTING AND IMMUNIZ- 
ING LIVESTOCK AT PUBLIC PUREBRED 
SALES IN NORTH DAKOTA 
(Revised January 17, 1945) 
Section 1. The livestock sales ring law which 
was passed by the 1941 Legislature exempts 
breeders of livestock of any class who assemble 
for sale and sell under their own management 
registered livestock or breeding sires, providing 
such individuals or associations assume all re- 
sponsibility of such sale and guarantee title of 
such livestock and make proper inspection of all 
animals sold, and it is, therefore, deemed neces- 
sary that some provision for such inspection be 
authorized. Section 2. Whenever breeders of livestock 
assemble for sale registered livestock or breeding 
sii’es, they must provide for the inspection and 
testing, if necessary, of all the animals sold and . 
must use for this purpose a licensed veterinarian 
approved by the North Dakota Livestock Sani- 
tary Board. This veterinarian is to receive for 
his services a sum not to exceed $10.00 per 
diem, plus the same rate per mile for the dis- 
tance actually traveled as that allowed by the 
State and a sum not to exceed 75c per head 
for brucellosis and TB. testing. It shall be his 
duty to inspect all livestock brought to the sale, 
inspect all test charts and official health certifi- 
cates of any kind, and hold for test any animals 
that do not carry the proper credentials as re- 
quired by law and the regulations of the North 
Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board. 
NORTH DAKOTA LIVESTOCK SANITARY 
BOARD DIRECTION FOR THE DISINFECTION 
OF PREMISES 
In the eradication of glanders, tuberculosis, 
brucellosis or other communicable diseases the 
thorough disinfection of premises is essential. 
This may be satisfactorily accomplished by 
carrying out the following directions; 
1. Sweep ceilings, side walls, stall partitions, 
floors, and other surfaces until free from cob- 
webs and dust. 
2. Remove all accumulations of filth by scrap- 
ing, and if woodwork has become decayed, por- 
ous, or absorbent, it should be removed, burned, 
and replaced with new material. 
3. If floor is of earth, remove four inches from 
the surface, and in places where it shows stain- 
ing with urine a sufficient depth should be re- 
moved to expose fresh earth. All earth removed 
should be replaced with earth from an uncon- 
taminated source, or a new floor of concrete 
may be laid, which is very durable and easily 
cleaned. 
4. All refuse ,and material from stable and 
barnyard should* be removed to a place not ac- 
cessible to cattle or hogs in case of disinfecting 
for tuberculosis or brucellosis nor accessible to 
horses or mules in case of disinfecting for 
glanders. This material should be burned, if 
possible; otherwise, the manure should be spread 
on the fields and turned under, while wood 
should be burned. 
5. The entire interior of the stable, especially 
the feeding troughs and drains, should be satur- 
ated with a disinfectant, as liquor cresolis com- 
positus (U. S. P.), or carbolic acid, 6 ounces to 
every gallon of water in each case. After this has dried, the stalls, walls, and ceilings may be 
covered with white-wash (lime wash) to each 
gallon of which should be added 4 ounces of 
chlorid of lime. 
The best method of applying the disinfectant 
and the lime wash is by means of a strong 
spray pump, such as those used by orchadists. 
This method is efficient in disinfection against 
most of the contagious and infectious diseases of 
animals, and should be applied immediately 
following any outbreak, and, as a matter of 
precaution, it may be used once or twice yearly. 
6. It is important that arrangements be made 
to admit a plentiful supply of sunlight and fresh 
air by providing an ample number of windows, 
thereby eliminating dampness, bad odors, and 
other insanitary conditions. Good drainage is 
also very necessary. 
If the use of liquor cresolis compositus, car-, 
bolic acid, or other coal-tar products is inad- 
missable because of the readiness with which 
their odor is imparted to milk and other dairy 
products, a 2% lye solution may be used (1 lb. 
lye in 6 gallons of water). Sodium phenylphenate 
is recommended as a very desirable odorless 
disinfectant. 
NORTH DAKOTA LIVESTOCK SANITARY 
BOARD DIRECTIONS FOR DRAWING BLOOD 
SAMPLES FROM CATTLE FOR THE AGGLUT- 
INATION BLOOD TEST FOR BRUCELLOSIS 
AND OTHER DIRECTIONS PERTAINING 
THERETO. 
1. To definitely determine the existence of 
brucellosis in a herd of cattle blood samples 
should be drawn from all breeding animals over 
six months of age; the following technique being 
recommended in the collecting of the blood sam- 
ples: 
2. All animals that are to be blood tested must 
be identified by serial numbered ear tags—placed 
in the right ear. The blood should be drawn 
into sterilized tubes. The tubes must be labeled 
and numbered in sequence—for instance, 1 to 
1000. Care should be taken to keep the blood 
samples in order—indicating the proper tube 
number and ear tag number on the test chart 
for each animal from which blood has been 
drawn. 
3. A small rope, tourniquet, or the thumb may 
be used to dam back the blood in the jugular 
vein. A small nledget of cotton which has been 
soaked in alcohol may be used to disinfect the 
skin at the point of puncture. 4. Fill the tube about one-third full of blood 
and allow the blood to stand two or three hours 
after it has been drawn or until firmly clotted— 
after which time it should be kept cold but not 
allowed to freeze. The tubes of blood, securely 
corked, should then be carefully packed and for- 
warded to the Brucellosis Laboratory, 602 Main, 
Bismarck, N. D. 
5. The veterinarian should endeavor to carry 
out the whole procedure in as sanitary a man- 
ner as possible to avoid undue hemolysis of the 
blood. 
6. The test chart, indicating proper ear tag 
numbers, tube numbers, and descriptions of the 
animals from which blood has been drawn, must 
be made out in duplicate and forwarded to the 
Brucellosis Laboratory at the same time the 
blood is forwarded. 
7. Reactors should be tagged in the left ear 
and branded on the left jaw with the letter 
“B.” 
8. It is iliegal for owners to sell or in any- 
way disoose of these reacting animals, except 
for immediate slaughter—properly identified and 
accompanied by proper permit. 
9. There is great danger of infected cows 
spreading this disease to other animals in the 
herd a few days before and from three to six 
weeks following abortion or normal calving. If 
the owner is unable to isolate the infected cows, 
he should at least do so during this period. 
NORTH DAKOTA LIVESTOCK SANITARY 
BOARD DIRECTIONS FOR THE PREPARA- 
TION OF MATERIALS FOR LABORATORY 
EXAMINATION 
The diagnosis of animal diseases frequently 
requires laboratory examination of materials to 
aid or substantiate tentative diagnoses which 
are not possible with methods of observation. 
This involves technical procedures with facilities 
which are not ordinarily available in the field. 
If the veterinarian is to secure the maximum 
amount of service, the specimens should be se- 
lected with a definite idea of the purpose for 
which they are to be examined. The specimen 
should be accompanied by a concise report on 
the history and the lesions which were found, as 
well as the purpose of the examination. 
Tissues for Bacteriologic Examination. This 
usually involves some form of animal inoculation. 
When an infectious disease is suspected, the 
appropriate organ should be sent to the labora- 
tory in as fresh a condition as possible and 
with as much protection from extraneous con- 
tamination as possible. The tissues should be selected according to the 
probable localization of the disease. Sections of 
the blackleg muscle should be selected, the rec- 
tum in coccidiosis, the head of a rabid dog (none 
reported for years), the swellings or pus in actin- 
omycosis, blood dried on a cotton swab or string 
and placed in a test tube when anthrax alone 
is suspected—such material being carefully 
packed before shipment, being doubly sure that 
all anthrax suspected specimens are made safe 
from breakage and possible hazard to the han- 
dlers. There are a very limited number of septi- 
cemic diseases and the microscopic examination 
of the blood seldom reveals anything. The snleen 
is suitable for most purposes when animal inocu- 
lation is necessary to detect septicemic infection. 
Select the lesions which show alterations. 
Never pack moist organs in a tight container, 
like a tin can or a fruit jar. There is nothing to 
absorb the excess moisture, so that discoloration 
and putrefaction quickly take place, so that such 
material is often worthless. 
Specimens which are wrapped in clean cloth 
and then packed in excelsior or even prairie 
hay, to absorb any excess fluid, are in the best 
shape for shipment. If specimens can be cooled 
in warm weather, there is little need of packing 
them in borax, providing cloth is used. Speci- 
mens in alcohol or formalin are useless for 
subsequent bacteriologic study. 
Small animals and poultry specimens usually 
arrive in better condition for examination if they 
are shipped intact than if portions of the viscera 
are submitted. 
Hog Cholera and Swine Erysipelas. The posi- 
tive differentiation of these diseases requires 
inoculation into pigs and pigeons. Blood can be 
obtained in a sterile tube or vial in a cleanly 
manner from a sick pig. The spleen is the best 
tissue to submit for inoculation work. It should 
be wrapped in clean cloth. 
Parasites should be preserved in diluted form- 
alin (formalin 1 to water 9) solution. A state- 
ment of the host relations should accompany the 
parasites. 
Tissues for Histologic Study, An examination 
of the gross and microscopic structure of certain 
lesions is often desired. This applies particularly 
to tumors and localized lesions wherein possible 
transmissible infections are not of primary in- 
terest. Such tissues should reach the laboratory 
with a minimum amount of decomposition so 
that a preservative usually is necessary. Small 
pieces can be placed entirely in vials of diluted 
formalin. Lesions thicker than % inch should be sectioned so that slices of that thickness through 
the characteristic changes will fix en route. A 
portion should in addition be sent in the fresh 
condition. 
Fecal samples are suitable for the detection of 
parasitic ova and of coccidial oocysts. An ounce 
is an ample quantity. They should be collected 
in a tight container to avoid leaking en route. 
Skin scrapings are for the purpose of estab- 
lishing the possible presence of scab or mange 
mites. Mange mites burrow into the skin while 
the scab parasite lives on the surface beneath 
the scabs. It is well to scrape deep enough to 
cause some exudation of serum. Any tight con- 
tainer will suffice. 
Urine samples are to be preserved with a few 
c. c. of chloroform. A quantity of an ounce is 
sufficient for the usual test. 
Please prepay the express, unless other ar- 
rangements have been made to handle it. 
These regulations were approved March 28, 
1945, by Assistant Attorney General, P. O. Sathre. ACCREDITED Page Nos. 
modified brucellosis-free 
(N. D. Reg. No. 11) 52 
brucellosis-free herds (N. D. Reg. No. 14) 58 
brucellosis-free vaccinated herds 
(N. D. Reg. No. 15) 60 
ANTHRAX 
(N. D. Reg. No. 19) 64 
BOARD, Livestock Sanitary 
(N. D. Law 36-0101 to 36-0120) 4-8 
BRANDING 
tuberculosis and brucellosis 
(N. D. Reg. No. 8 50 
BRUCELLOSIS 
plan “C” (N. D. Reg. No. 12) 54 
plan “D” (N. D. Reg. No. 13) 56 
CIRCUMSCRIBED AREAS 
(tuberculosis and brucellosis) 
(N. D. Law 36-1514) 19 
CLEANING AND DISINFECTION 
of trucks (N. D. Reg. No. 9 and 10) 51 
CONDEMNATION 
tuberculosis and brucellosis 
(N. D. Law 36-1502 to 36-1512) 15-18 
DIPPING STATIONS 
(county may establish) 
(N. D. Law 36-1901 to 36-1907) 26-27 
DISPOSITION 
carcasses of animals dying from 
contagious and infectious disease 
(N. D. Law 36-1419 to 36-1420) 13-14 
DUTY OF STATES ATTORNEY 
(N. D. Law 36-1415) 12 
FEES 
fees (N. D. Reg. No. 27, 28, 29 and 30) 71-74 
GLANDERS 
glanders (N. D. Reg. No. 4) 42-45 
glanders and dourine 
(N. D. Law 36-1601 to 36-1615)... 20-25 
HEALTH CERTIFICATES 
health certificates 
(N. D. Law 36-1411 to 36-1414) 11-12 
INDEMNITY 
Indemnity for steers or unregistered bulls 
(N. D. Reg. No. 5) 45 
INTERSTATE 
interstate laws 
(N. D. Law 36-1405 to 36-1407) 9-10 
interstate regulations 
(N. D. Reg. No. 1 and 2) 34-40 
ISOLATION 
isolation of infected animals 
(N. D. Law 36-1403) 9 
INDEX Page Nos, 
KILLING 
killing of infected animals for human 
consumption (N. D. Law 36-1402) 9 
LIVESTOCK 
through public stockyards 
(N. D. Reg. No. 3) 40-42 
PULLORUM 
control of pullorum disease 
(N. D. Reg. No. 26) 71 
RABIES 
rabies (N. D. Reg. No. 20) 65 
RENDERING PLANT 
rendering plant license 
(N. D. Law 36-0701 to 36-0714) 31-34 
SALE 
sale of animals infected with contagious 
disease (N. D. Law 36-1401) 8 
SALE RINGS, livestock 
(N. D. Law 36-0501 to 36-0514) 27-31 
SCABIES 
cattle (N. D. Reg. No. 17) 62 
sheep (N. D. Reg. No. 18) 63 
SERUM 
serum institute 
(N. D. Law 36-1801 to 36-1804) 25 
SHEEP 
sheep sanitation 
(N. D. Law 36-1416 to 36-1418) 12-13 
SWINE 
control of hog cholera (N. D. Reg. No. 24).. 69 
erysipelas (N. D. Reg. No. 25) 70 
feeding of uncooked garbage 
(N. D. Reg. No. 22) 68 
hog cholera virus (N. D. Law 36-1409) 10 
immunization of swine at fairs 
(N. D. Law 36-1408) 10 
use of hog cholera virus 
(N. D. Reg. No. 23) 68 
TESTING 
testing in townships (tuberculosis and 
brucellosis (N. D. Law 36-1513) 18 
testing for tuberculosis and brucellosis 
(N. D. Law 36-1515 to 36-1519) 19-20 
TUBERCULOSIS 
accredited herds (N. D. Reg. No. 6) 46 
avian (N. D. Reg. No. 7) 49 
VACCINATION 
vaccination of calves by licensed veter- 
inarians (N. D. Reg. No. 16) 62 
VIRULENT PRODUCTS 
(use of) (N. D. Reg. No. 21) 67 
INDEX