25-137. PUNISHMENT FOR DISREGARD OF QUARANTINE RULES — TAKING EVIDENCE. 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 rules promulgated thereunder or any other provision of law or any sanitary or quarantine rule, order of the board or inspector thereof or any of the provisions of this chapter or rules promulgated thereunder, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each offense. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, 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 hereof and in the furtherance of the quarantine, sanitary or other rules.
History:
[25-137, added 1951, ch. 250, sec. 12, p. 527; am. 1985, ch. 63, sec. 7, p. 132; am. 1997, ch. 116, sec. 6, p. 294.]