81-2-101. Authority of department agents. In the performance of official duties, an agent or officer of the department may enter on or in a lot, yard, land, building, room, premises, enclosure, car, wagon, boat, or other place or vehicle used for the treatment, storage, manufacture, display, or transportation of animals, meat, or dairy products intended for sale or disposal as food. The agent or officer may enter anywhere where livestock may be found that are affected with or that have been exposed to or that the officer has reason to believe are either affected with or have been exposed to an infectious, contagious, communicable, or dangerous disease or disease-carrying insects.
History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 262, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3266, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3266, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 55, Ch. 310, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 46-207; amd. Sec. 2626, Ch. 56, L. 2009.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Part 1. General Administration
81-2-101. Authority of department agents
81-2-102. Powers of department
81-2-104. Rules -- agreement with federal government
81-2-105. Authority of municipal corporations
81-2-106. Cooperation by public officers
81-2-107. Duty to report contagious diseases
81-2-108. Diseased animals not to run at large -- burial of carcasses
81-2-109. Expenses, how paid -- lien and foreclosure
81-2-110. Expense of cleaning and disinfecting carriers' facilities
81-2-115. Confidentiality of information collected -- exceptions
81-2-116. Animal health account -- enterprise fund account for laboratory services
81-2-117. through 81-2-119 reserved
81-2-120. Management of wild buffalo or wild bison for disease control