§ 4-4-19. Orders prohibiting importation of animals.
The director of environmental management may prohibit the introduction of any cattle or other domestic animals into the state. Any person who brings, transports or introduces any cattle or other domestic animals into the state, after the director has issued an order forbidding the introduction of that cattle or other domestic animal into the state, or after the director has published for five (5) successive days in any newspapers published in this state as the director may direct, an order forbidding that introduction, shall be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300) for every offense, and every officer or agent of any company or other person, who violates that order, is subject to the fine. In case of the introduction into the state of cattle or other domestic animals, contrary to the order of the director, the introduction of each animal is deemed a separate and distinct offense.
History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 98, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 119, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 245, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 206, § 3; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 160; G.L. 1956, § 4-4-19.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 4 - Animals and Animal Husbandry
Chapter 4-4 - Animal Diseases in General
Section 4-4-1. - Appointment of inspectors to inspect diseased animals — Quarantine — Veterinarians.
Section 4-4-1.1. - Animals defined.
Section 4-4-2. - Compensation of commissioners and veterinarians — Duties — Removal.
Section 4-4-3. - Reporting of diseased animals — Destruction.
Section 4-4-5. - Right of entry where disease suspected.
Section 4-4-7. - Compensation for condemned equine animals.
Section 4-4-8. - Exposure of diseased animals to contact with healthy animals.
Section 4-4-9. - Sale, use, or exposure of diseased animals — Refusal to destroy.
Section 4-4-10. - Sale of diseased or disabled animals.
Section 4-4-11. - Interference with enforcement — Violation of quarantine.
Section 4-4-12. - Cooperation with federal government in suppression of diseases.
Section 4-4-13. - Powers of federal and state inspectors — Assistance by peace officers.
Section 4-4-14. - State immunity.
Section 4-4-15. - Cooperation in federal Bang’s disease plan.
Section 4-4-16. - Compensation for animals killed in Bang’s disease program.
Section 4-4-17. - Importation or exposure of diseased animals.
Section 4-4-18. - City and town ordinances.
Section 4-4-19. - Orders prohibiting importation of animals.
Section 4-4-20. - Publication of information on diseases.
Section 4-4-21. - Inspectors on roads and railroads.
Section 4-4-22. - Sale of infected animals or milk.
Section 4-4-23. - Regulations for suppression of disease.
Section 4-4-24. - State rules paramount to local.
Section 4-4-25. - Signature of orders and notices.
Section 4-4-26. - Limitation of prosecutions.
Section 4-4-27. - Certification of turtles as free of salmonellosis required.