[Adopted 6-30-1939; amended in its entirety 9-25-2001]
Any person, firm or corporation who or which,
for himself/herself or itself, shall transport from outside the County
into this County any animal or poultry, knowing the same to be infected
with a contagious or infectious disease, or any animal or poultry
known by the importer to have been exposed to a contagious or infectious
disease, or known to bear upon its body fever ticks or other germs
or known to be a carrier of disease, or who or which imports any animal
or poultry in violation of any legally adopted quarantine or other
rule or regulation of the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services
or of the State Veterinarian, or who violates a rule or regulation
of the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services or the State Veterinarian
requiring railroad, navigation, trucking and airline companies or
corporations, firms or persons to cleanse and disinfect cars or vehicles
used by them for transporting livestock into or through the commonwealth,
as may be reasonably necessary to prevent the spread of contagious
or infectious diseases of animals within the commonwealth, shall be
guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
