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Article 1 - Mississippi Board of Animal Health
§ 69-15-2. Membership of board; appointments; terms; vacancies; advisory council - One (1) licensed and practicing veterinarian who holds a Doctor...
§ 69-15-3. Office space; adoption of rules and regulations - The Department of Finance and Administration shall provide office space...
§ 69-15-5. Compensation of members of board - The members of the Board of Animal Health who are...
§ 69-15-7. Employees; authority to employ professional, technical and clerical personnel; appointment of state veterinarian; bond; use of attorney - The State Veterinarian is authorized and empowered to employ the...
§ 69-15-9. Powers of Board, State Veterinarian, officers and agents; entry upon premises to inspect and disinfect; liability; control, prevention, eradication, inspection and monitoring of chronic wasting disease and other contagious diseases of exot... - The Board of Animal Health shall administer the special fund...
§ 69-15-11. Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory; services of laboratory; fees for services; qualifications of director and staff; advisory council; meetings; funds and property transfer to College of Veterinary Medicine - The members of the advisory council shall serve in an...
§ 69-15-13. Appointment of federal personnel as inspectors; acceptance of federal assistance - The State Veterinarian is vested with authority to appoint and...
Article 2 - Administrative Procedures to Enforce Rules and Regulations of Board of Animal Health
§ 69-15-51. Purpose - It is the purpose of Sections 69-15-51 through 69-15-69 to...
§ 69-15-57. Certification of findings and recommendations to Board of Animal Health - The reviewing officer and/or the hearing committee shall certify findings...
§ 69-15-59. Waiver of right to hearing - Failure of the accused to request a hearing or respond...
§ 69-15-61. Jurisdiction of Board of Animal Health; authority to adopt rules and regulations - The Board of Animal Health shall have jurisdiction over all...
§ 69-15-69. Immunity for witnesses - No person shall be subject to criminal prosecution or to...
Article 3 - General Provisions for Control and Eradication of Livestock and Animal Diseases
§ 69-15-105. County or district to establish program to control or eradicate ticks, flies, and other external parasites - It shall be the duty of each livestock owner within...
§ 69-15-111. Livestock; how brought into state - It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm...
§ 69-15-113. Infected livestock; pay for when destroyed - Owners of livestock infected with any contagious or infectious disease,...
§ 69-15-115. Penalties - Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions...
Article 5 - Cattle Tuberculosis
§ 69-15-201. Employment of veterinarians to co-operate in tests - The State Veterinarian, with the approval and consent of the...
§ 69-15-203. Veterinarians to be detailed to aid counties - The State Veterinarian is directed to detail a veterinarian to...
§ 69-15-205. Elections on tuberculosis control - The board of supervisors of any county in the State...
§ 69-15-207. Submission of cattle for tuberculin tests - In counties doing tuberculosis eradication work under the provisions of...
§ 69-15-209. Condemnation, branding and disposition of cattle reacting to tuberculin tests - Cattle which react to the tuberculin test or show marked...
§ 69-15-211. Payment for condemned cattle in counties engaged in tuberculosis eradication under area plan; appraisement - The county boards of supervisors of counties engaged in eradicating...
§ 69-15-213. Payment for condemned cattle in counties not operating on area plan - The boards of supervisors of the various counties of the...
Article 7 - Eradication of Cattle Ticks and Other Animal Parasites
§ 69-15-305. Appointment, dismissal and compensation of local state inspectors and range riders - The State Veterinarian shall appoint the necessary number of local...
§ 69-15-307. Board of supervisors to assist in eradicating tick fever - The board of supervisors in the various counties of the...
§ 69-15-309. When board of supervisors to act - If it shall be determined by the State Veterinarian, or...
§ 69-15-311. Infected cattle to be dipped - Systematic dipping of all cattle, horses, jacks, jennets and mules...
§ 69-15-313. Board of supervisors to provide dipping vats when necessary - The boards of supervisors, after being notified by the State...
§ 69-15-315. Violation by supervisors - If the board of supervisors shall fail, refuse or neglect...
§ 69-15-317. Cattle and other livestock to be dipped - Any person, or persons, firms or corporations, owning or having...
§ 69-15-319. Notice to be posted in certain cases - Quarantines and dipping notices for cattle, horses, jacks, jennets and...
§ 69-15-321. Procedure when owner fails to dip - Cattle, horses, jacks, jennets or mules infested with or exposed...
§ 69-15-323. Expenses incurred in enforcement to be lien on animal - Any expense incurred in the enforcement of Section 69-15-321 or...
§ 69-15-325. Driving and drifting from quarantined to free county - Any person or persons, firm or corporation, driving, conveying, transporting...
§ 69-15-327. Duty of sheriff; penalty for failure to act - It shall be the duty of the sheriff in any...
§ 69-15-329. Destruction of vats - Any person or persons who shall wilfully damage or destroy...
Article 9 - Penalties -