1. Whenever the exportation of any agricultural commodities is restricted by any quarantine proclamation or regulation of the State of Nevada, or of any other state or territory, or of the United States Government or any other authority empowered to issue such quarantine or regulation, the State Quarantine Officer may appoint such properly qualified deputies as may be necessary to inspect such commodities.
2. If exportation is not prohibited by law or quarantine regulation, the deputy state quarantine officers may issue certificates permitting the exportation of agricultural commodities.
3. If any such inspection is requested by the owner, shipper or person in charge of any such agricultural commodity and discontinued for any reason before its completion, an equitable proportion of the total cost therefor, had the same been completed, shall immediately be payable and collectible as provided in subsection 4.
4. On the neglect or refusal of the owner, shipper or person in charge of any inspected agricultural commodity to pay the charges prescribed in this section, on presentation of an itemized bill covering the same, the district attorney of the county shall forthwith proceed to levy an attachment against the agricultural commodity so inspected for the amount due plus the costs of legal proceedings, and shall collect the same by legal proceedings.
[16:280:1913; added 1923, 177; NCL § 446]—(NRS A 1961, 520)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 554 - Quarantines of Agricultural Commodities
NRS 554.011 - "Agricultural commodity" defined.
NRS 554.012 - "Exportation" defined.
NRS 554.014 - "Importation" defined.
NRS 554.015 - "Noxious weed" defined.
NRS 554.016 - "Vertebrate pest" defined.
NRS 554.030 - Permissible provisions; amendments.
NRS 554.040 - Certified copies of quarantine to be delivered to certain officers.
NRS 554.050 - Administration; cooperation with state and federal officers.
NRS 554.070 - Unlawful to import into or transport through State in violation of quarantine.
NRS 554.080 - Criminal proceedings: Proof of disease or exposure to disease.
NRS 554.110 - State Quarantine Officer’s power to proclaim and enforce quarantine.
NRS 554.120 - Investigation; proclamation; effective until vacated.
NRS 554.140 - Administration by State Quarantine Officer; enforcement by peace officers.
NRS 554.150 - Cooperation with federal authorities.
NRS 554.160 - Powers of State Quarantine Officer.
NRS 554.210 - Employment of deputy state quarantine officers by counties.
NRS 554.230 - Criminal proceedings: Proof of disease, exposure to disease or infestation.