Cattle, horses, jacks, jennets or mules infested with or exposed to the cattle tick (margaropus annulatus), in any county known to be partly or wholly infested with such tick, the owner or owners of which, after five days written notice from a livestock inspector, or such animals as are provided for under Section 69-15-319, shall fail or refuse to dip such animals at a time and place designated in such notice and regularly every 14 days thereafter until released, in a vat properly charged with arsenical solution, under the supervision of a livestock inspector, said cattle, horses, jacks, jennets or mules shall be dipped, quarantined and placed in the custody of the sheriff, by the livestock inspector. Suitably fenced areas for holding such cattle while in the custody of the sheriff shall be provided by the board of supervisors.
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