Missouri · statute · Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 267 · 67 active provisions
Whenever in sections 267.010 to 267.460, the following words or terms are used, they shall be deemed and taken as the meaning ascribed as follows: (1) "Cattle" shall mean neat cattle; (2) "Condemned" shall refer to cattle which have reacted to the test; (3) "Department" or "department of agriculture" shall mean the Mis…
The director of agriculture of the state of Missouri shall appoint a veterinary surgeon, to aid and assist in developing and protecting the livestock interests of the state of Missouri. Said veterinary surgeon shall be a graduate of some reputable and recognized veterinary college or school, and shall give to the said…
Said veterinary surgeon shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duty, file with said director of agriculture his oath of office with a satisfactory and sufficient bond for the faithful performance of his official duties. He shall have his office with or near the office of the director of agriculture; shall act…
Said veterinary surgeon shall be under the control of the director of the department of agriculture, who may remove him, whenever in his judgment the good of the veterinary service of the state may demand it.
Whenever the state veterinary surgeon shall find it impossible to perform alone in an effective manner the duties imposed by sections 267.010 to 267.460, the director of agriculture, with the advice of the veterinarian, may appoint, as may be needed, one or more deputy state veterinary surgeons, who shall be competent…
The state veterinarian, deputy state veterinarians and livestock inspectors, shall receive salaries fixed by the state director of agriculture and necessary traveling expenses in the discharge of official duties, payable out of the funds provided for the maintenance of the veterinary service. The state veterinarian, de…
The said director of agriculture and state veterinary surgeon shall cooperate with any commissioner or other officer appointed by the United States for the suppression of contagious diseases among domestic animals, so far as the provisions of sections 267.010 to 267.460 and the appropriation made in accordance therewit…
Said veterinary surgeon shall report to the director of agriculture in writing at least once every three months, setting forth the locality or localities visited as provided in sections 267.010 to 267.070, the kind of stock treated, the type and character of the diseases, the remedies prescribed and the results, so far…
It shall be the duty of the director of agriculture to collate and compile, briefly and concisely, the useful and interesting information derived from the veterinary sanitary service as provided for in sections 267.010 to 267.460, and report to the general assembly, within ten days of the date of the meeting thereof, t…
1. It shall be lawful for any ten residents of this state to go before any clerk of a court of record or associate circuit judge and demand the presence and services of the veterinary surgeon in the following manner: 2. Which petition may be certified to in the following manner: 3. The department of health and senior s…
Such petition may be forwarded by mail or otherwise, as the petitioners may elect, to the director of agriculture, who shall cause a thorough investigation to be made by or under the direction of the state veterinary surgeon or his deputies. Such investigation may be ordered without application by petition if upon sati…
Whenever the state veterinary surgeon shall have sufficient evidence to satisfy him that any private or public or corporate barn, or shed, or stock car, or any pen, yard or field, is infected and so injudiciously used as to be liable to convey contagious or infectious disease to livestock, he shall prescribe in writing…
1. "Official laboratories" are hereby established. The laboratories are to be known as the "Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratories", operated by and under the direction of the state veterinarian, for the purpose of diagnosing animal disease. The state veterinarian shall have the authority to assess laboratory fees to as…
1. The state of Missouri may support a voluntary animal identification program. The department of agriculture shall not mandate or otherwise force national animal identification system (NAIS) premises registration without specific statutory authorization from the Missouri general assembly. 2. Any person who participate…
1. For purposes of this section, the term animal shall mean the same as the term livestock as defined in section 277.020. 2. The following data shall not be considered a public record and shall not be subject to disclosure under chapter 610: (1) Premises registration data collected from participants in the federal Anim…
1. The department of agriculture may pay, within the limit of its appropriation, an indemnity in the manner and in the amounts herein set forth to the owner of cattle who carries on an approved tuberculosis control program in his herd. The indemnity shall reimburse the owner for a part of the loss suffered by him in di…
After cattle, in quarantine on account of tuberculosis, under sections 267.010 to 267.460, have been duly appraised, said condemned cattle may, at the discretion of the state veterinarian, be shipped by their owner, under the supervision of the state veterinarian, by legal permit, to any slaughtering plant which is pro…
Notwithstanding any provision in sections 267.170 to 267.410, the department shall allow and permit the owner of any animal found to be a reactor to retain the animal in quarantine and use the animal for breeding purposes in his own herd if necessary or desirable in order to preserve valuable breeding cattle; but, the…
1. Any person or persons who shall in any way interfere with or obstruct the state veterinarian in the discharge of his duties, or any owner or owners, person or persons who shall be notified to quarantine animals as provided in sections 267.010 to 267.730 and who shall violate any of the provisions of those sections o…
1. The governor of Missouri may, in his discretion, order said state veterinarian to visit any state or territory and investigate any dangerous or infectious disease said to exist in any designated locality in the state named and report to the governor the result of said investigation, together with such suggestions th…
1. The governor, when informed by the state veterinarian that contagious or infectious livestock disease has become largely disseminated or epidemic among domestic animals throughout any municipality or geographical district in this state, or is found to exist in any herd or herds in this state, may call the director o…
1. The state veterinarian and any inspector or person authorized by said state veterinarian, or by him appointed, to assist in the work of applying the tubercular test provided for under sections 267.010 to 267.460, may enter any barn or barns, yard, pasture or other building or enclosure where cattle may be kept or fo…
The state veterinarian shall have power and authority to make and enforce such regulations as may be necessary to control and prevent the spread of tuberculosis among animals in such county and for the creation and maintenance of such county as a modified accredited area to the extent and so that the same shall conform…
A person shall not sell or offer for sale, or run at large on any common or unfenced lands in this state, any livestock affected with a serious external parasitic infestation or any infectious or contagious disease whatsoever; provided, that this section shall not be so construed as to prohibit the movement of such inf…
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company, or corporation, owning or operating any stock pens or stockyards in this state, to permit any livestock, cattle, hogs, sheep or goats, not under or subject to quarantine, to be unloaded into any pens, enclosures, or yards, wherein any quarantined livestock is, or has…