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NRS 562.490 – Inspectors’ right of entry for inspection and examination.

Inspectors shall have the right at all times to enter any premises, farms, fields, pens, slaughterhouses, buildings, cars, trucks or railroad cars where any sheep are quartered, for the purpose of examining them to determine whether they are infected with any infectious or contagious disease. [Part 6:82:1919; A 1945, 81; 1943 NCL § 3876]

NRS 562.520 – Employees of federal Secretary of Agriculture may come within State for purposes connected with exporting diseased sheep and for suppression and extirpation of sheep disease.

The Board is authorized to give its consent that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary’s employees shall come within the State of Nevada for the purposes connected with the exportation of diseased sheep, and for the suppression and extirpation of pleuropneumonia and other contagious and infectious diseases among sheep. [23:82:1919; 1919 RL p. 3187; […]

NRS 562.540 – Importation of infected sheep into state unlawful; penalty.

1. It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation, or any agent, servant or employee thereof, to bring into this state any sheep infected with scabies or any infectious or contagious disease, or that have in any manner been exposed to such disease. 2. Any person, company or corporation, or any agent, servant […]

NRS 562.560 – Penalty for other violations.

Any person, company, corporation or association, or any agent, servant or employee of such, who shall violate or disregard any quarantine provision of this chapter, or any sanitary or quarantine rule, regulation or order of the Board or inspector thereof, or any of the provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. […]

NRS 562.310 – Power to subpoena and examine witnesses and administer oaths.

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter each member of the Board, and the Secretary of the Board, is authorized to subpoena and examine witnesses and to administer oaths for the purpose of soliciting information to be used in enforcing the provisions of this chapter, and in the furtherance of the […]