Effective - 28 Aug 1990
267.100. Petition for veterinarian's services to control contagious disease. — 1. It shall be lawful for any ten residents of this state to go before any clerk of a court of record or associate circuit judge and demand the presence and services of the veterinary surgeon in the following manner:
2. Which petition may be certified to in the following manner:
3. The department of health and senior services may demand of the director of agriculture, through the director of the department of health and senior services, the services of the state veterinary surgeon to aid it in the inspection of such infectious or contagious diseases as are transmissible to the human family, and in examination of meats, milk and foods, when, in the judgment of the department of health and senior services, the assistance of this officer is necessary.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14193, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1070)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12522; 1919 § 12081; 1909 § 710
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals
Chapter 267 - State Veterinarian — Diseased Animals
Section 267.010 - Definitions.
Section 267.020 - Appointment of veterinary surgeon — qualifications — tenure.
Section 267.030 - Veterinarian — oath, bond — office — duties.
Section 267.040 - Under control of director.
Section 267.050 - Appointment of deputy veterinary surgeon — qualifications.
Section 267.060 - Compensation of veterinarian and deputies.
Section 267.070 - Cooperate with federal officers.
Section 267.080 - Report to director.
Section 267.090 - Compilation of information and report.
Section 267.100 - Petition for veterinarian's services to control contagious disease.
Section 267.110 - Veterinarian to investigate on petition.
Section 267.120 - Prescribe disinfectants — enforcement.
Section 267.169 - Certain livestock data not subject to disclosure — exceptions.
Section 267.170 - Indemnification — appraisal — payment.
Section 267.210 - Disposition of condemned cattle.
Section 267.220 - Reactor animals may be retained, procedure.
Section 267.240 - Governor — approval and enforcement of quarantine regulations.
Section 267.380 - State veterinarian may enter to conduct tests — owner to cooperate.
Section 267.400 - Veterinarian to make and enforce regulations.
Section 267.430 - Diseased animals — sale or running at large prohibited.
Section 267.450 - Unquarantined stock in quarantined pens prohibited.
Section 267.560 - Title of law.
Section 267.565 - Definitions.
Section 267.575 - Health certificates, contents, duration — inspection and testing, authority.
Section 267.580 - Permits, requests for contents, duration.
Section 267.585 - Carriers of livestock, regulations.
Section 267.590 - Quarantine of animal or herd by state veterinarian — duration.
Section 267.595 - Quarantine of area, notice, effect — procedure.
Section 267.604 - Injunction against owners of diseased livestock, when — venue.
Section 267.611 - Slaughter of animals, indemnification — accounting.
Section 267.615 - License for male breeding animals, application, fee, renewal.
Section 267.620 - Artificial insemination, license for production of semen, fee, renewal.
Section 267.625 - Bovine breeding males to be tested and vaccinated.
Section 267.630 - Law inapplicable to loan between breeders.
Section 267.635 - Revocation of licenses for violations.
Section 267.640 - Certification of disease free herds or flocks, when — cancellation.
Section 267.645 - Department may enter premises — rules and regulations.
Section 267.650 - Animals impounded when, costs paid by owner — redemption.
Section 267.655 - Civil penalties.
Section 267.660 - Violation, a misdemeanor.
Section 267.670 - Definitions.
Section 267.673 - Sheep and goats to be dipped, when.
Section 267.677 - Identification marks on dipped sheep and goats.
Section 267.680 - Markets and dealers to provide dipping facilities — records to be kept.
Section 267.683 - Animals may be sold for slaughter without dipping, when.
Section 267.687 - Infected sheep, goats or cattle, how treated — quarantine — moved, when.
Section 267.690 - Exposed animals released for slaughter, when.
Section 267.693 - Exposed animals quarantined — consignment for slaughter.
Section 267.697 - Sheep or goats deemed exposed, when.
Section 267.700 - All animals in group classed as infected or exposed, when.
Section 267.703 - Infected or exposed animals not to be moved.
Section 267.707 - County certified as "scabies free area", when.
Section 267.710 - Entrance of sheep or goats from noncertified to certified areas.
Section 267.713 - Importation of sheep or goats for breeding or feeding, regulations.
Section 267.717 - Registration of sheep shearers — duties.
Section 267.720 - Dealer registration — inspection of premises.
Section 267.723 - Rules and regulations.