The owner of animals placed in quarantine by the commissioner or his agents shall provide suitable quarters for them and feed and water them. If he fails or refuses to do so, the commissioner or his agents shall provide such quarters and feed and water such animals at the expense of the owner. If such expense shall not be paid within ten days after the lifting of the quarantine, the commissioner may sell or cause to be sold any such animal, at public sale, after ten days' notice thereof, and shall apply the proceeds of such sale, first to the payment of the costs and expenses aforesaid, and the residue to the owner. No animal shall be removed from a quarantined area prior to such sale, except upon payment of such expense.
Structure West Virginia Code
Article 9. Diseases Among Domestic Animals
§19-9-2. Duties and Powers of Commissioner
§19-9-3. Consulting Veterinarians to Assist Commissioner
§19-9-4. Inspectors of Animals
§19-9-6. Report of Communicable Diseases by Veterinarians and Owners; Failure to Report
§19-9-7. Commissioner May Accept Federal Laws and Regulations
§19-9-7a. Animal Disease Traceability; Rulemaking; Exemption
§19-9-8. Powers of Federal Inspectors
§19-9-9. County Court May Cooperate in Control and Eradication of Communicable Diseases
§19-9-10. Commissioner May Prescribe Tests for Diseases
§19-9-11. Reports of Sales of and Tests With Diagnostic Materials
§19-9-12. Unlawful Sale of Diagnostic Materials
§19-9-12a. Sale, Distribution or Administration of Unattenuated Hog Cholera Virus
§19-9-13. Quarantine of Premises or Animals; General and Special Quarantine Defined
§19-9-14. Establishment of Special Quarantine
§19-9-15. Establishment of General Quarantine
§19-9-16. Unlawful to Remove, Deface or Destroy Quarantine Notice
§19-9-17. Care of Quarantined Animals; Expense
§19-9-18. Removal of Animals, etc., From Quarantined Area; Running at Large of Dogs in Such Area
§19-9-19. Domestic Animal Within Quarantined Area Running at Large
§19-9-20. Bringing Animals Into State; Health Certificate
§19-9-21. Animals Entering State Without Health Certificate
§19-9-22. Unlawful Possession of Animal Brought Into State
§19-9-23. Regulation of Imported Dairy or Breeding Animals
§19-9-24. Importation of Dairy or Breeding Animal Unaccompanied by Health Certificate and Test Chart
§19-9-25. Commissioner May Decline to Accept Health Certificate or Test Chart
§19-9-26. Animals Brought Into State for Slaughter or for Exhibition Purposes
§19-9-27. Unlawful Sale of Animals for Breeding or Dairy Purposes
§19-9-28. Indemnity for Euthanizing Infected or Exposed Animals; Agreement
§19-9-29. When Right of Indemnity Does Not Exist
§19-9-30. Appraisal of Infected or Exposed Animals; Amount; Arbitration; Fees of Arbitrators
§19-9-31. Certificate of Appraisal
§19-9-32. Euthanasia of Diseased Animals; Supervision; Certificate of Euthanasia
§19-9-33. Payment of Indemnity
§19-9-34. Disposal of Carcass of Diseased Animal
§19-9-34a. Authority of Commissioner to Promulgate Rules Regulating Disposal of Dead Animals
§19-9-35. Tests for Bovine Tuberculosis; Disposition of Infected Bovine Animals
§19-9-36. Rules for Determining Amount of Indemnity
§19-9-37. Payment of Indemnity for Animals Slaughtered as Tuberculous
§19-9-38. Transportation of Diseased Animals
§19-9-39. Selling or Giving Away Diseased Animal; Permitting It to Stray