The commissioner may appoint, at different points in the state, inspectors to examine and inspect any of the animals enumerated in this article which are to be moved to states where the sanitary laws require such examination and inspection, with authority to issue certificates of inspection in the name of the state Department of Agriculture in such form as the commissioner may prescribe. Such inspectors shall be registered veterinarians, and the appointment of any such inspector may, at any time, be revoked by the commissioner.
The commissioner shall regulate and fix the fees to be charged by the inspector, which fees shall be paid by the owner requesting such examination and inspection, and the inspector shall receive no compensation from the state for any such service he may render.
Upon the request of any owner for an examination and inspection of such animals and tender of the fees authorized to be charged therefor, it shall be the duty of the inspector to examine and inspect such animals and to issue and deliver to such owner a certificate of inspection showing the results of such examination and inspection.
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