The board of supervisors in the various counties of the state are authorized and empowered to appropriate money out of the general fund of the county to be used for the purpose of co-operating with the Mississippi Board of Animal Health and the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry, in eradicating tick fever, cattle tick, lice, and other animal parasites, and any other contagious and infectious diseases of livestock or the causes of such diseases.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals
Chapter 15 - Board of Animal Health; Livestock and Animal Diseases
Article 7 - Eradication of Cattle Ticks and Other Animal Parasites
§ 69-15-305. Appointment, dismissal and compensation of local state inspectors and range riders
§ 69-15-307. Board of supervisors to assist in eradicating tick fever
§ 69-15-309. When board of supervisors to act
§ 69-15-311. Infected cattle to be dipped
§ 69-15-313. Board of supervisors to provide dipping vats when necessary
§ 69-15-315. Violation by supervisors
§ 69-15-317. Cattle and other livestock to be dipped
§ 69-15-319. Notice to be posted in certain cases
§ 69-15-321. Procedure when owner fails to dip
§ 69-15-323. Expenses incurred in enforcement to be lien on animal
§ 69-15-325. Driving and drifting from quarantined to free county