Section 72. Control and suppression of disease

1. The commissioner may
  cause investigations to be made as to the best method for  the  control,
  suppression   or  eradication  of  infectious  or  communicable  disease
  affecting domestic animals or carried by domestic animals and  affecting
  humans.  Whenever  any  infectious  or  communicable  disease  affecting
  domestic animals or carried by domestic  animals  and  affecting  humans
  shall  exist  or  shall  have  recently  existed outside this state, the
  commissioner shall take measures to  prevent  such  disease  from  being
  brought  into  the  state.  Whenever  any such disease shall exist or be
  brought into or break out in this state,  the  commissioner  shall  take
  measures  promptly to suppress the same and to prevent such disease from
  spreading.
    2. He may  issue  and  publish  a  notice  stating  that  a  specified
  infectious  or  communicable  disease  exists, may exist or has recently
  existed in the state, or in any designated county or other  geographical
  district  thereof,  and  warning all persons to seclude, in the premises
  where they maybe at the time, all animals within this state,  or  within
  such county or district, or an adjoining county or district, that are of
  a kind susceptible to contract such disease; and ordering all persons to
  take such precautions against the spreading of the disease as the nature
  thereof may, in his judgment, render necessary or expedient and which he
  may  specify  in  such  notice.  Such  notice shall be published in such
  manner as the commissioner may designate.  The  commissioner  may  cause
  such  notice  to be posted on buildings where animals are harbored which
  are believed to be diseased or exposed to disease, or on poles, gates or
  fences within an area in which diseased or exposed animals are  harbored
  or kept. No person shall tear down, mutilate, deface or destroy any such
  notice  or  order  issued  by  the  commissioner and posted, as provided
  herein, during the pendency of such notice or  order.  The  commissioner
  may  alter  or  modify, from time to time, as he may deem expedient, the
  terms of any notice or order issued or made pursuant to this article and
  may at any time cancel or withdraw the same.
    3. The commissioner may adopt and enforce rules  and  regulations  for
  the  control,  suppression  or  eradication  of communicable diseases in
  domestic animals  or  for  the  purpose  of  preventing  the  spread  of
  infection  and  contagion  among  such  animals, or from such animals to
  humans, and may, in behalf of the state, accept, in whole  or  in  part,
  rules  and  regulations  adopted  by the secretary of agriculture of the
  United States under any act  of  congress  providing  for  the  control,
  suppression or eradication of communicable diseases in domestic animals.
  The commissioner may cooperate with the authorities of the United States
  government  within  this  state  in  the  carrying out of such rules and
  regulations and the enforcement of the provisions of  any  such  act  so
  passed  which  are  not  in  conflict  with  the statutes of this state.
  Whenever the commissioner finds that an emergency  situation  exists  in
  relation  to  the  prevention  or  control of communicable disease among
  domestic animals, or from such animals to humans, the  commissioner  may
  by  regulation  require  that  all  domestic  animals  of any designated
  species be immunized against any designated  disease.  Such  regulations
  may  specify  the  immunizing  agent  to  be  used  and  the  method  of
  immunization. The regulations may prescribe that such immunization shall
  be performed by the agents of the department or require that all  owners
  or  harborers of the designated species shall cause such immunization to
  be performed by a licensed veterinarian.
    4. Whenever a program for the control, suppression or eradication of a
  disease of domestic animals has  been  adopted  and  instituted  by  the
  commissioner  pursuant  to  this  article, the owner or harborer of each
  domestic animal of the species involved shall, on  or  at  the  premises

  where  such  animal is kept, present and restrain such animal for tests,
  examination, immunization,  or  identification  at  such  times  as  the
  commissioner on not less than forty-eight hours notice shall direct.