NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1084

SENATE BILL 391

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF ARTICLE 34 OF CHAPTER 106 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA RELATING TO HOG CHOLERA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Part 3 of Article 34 of Chapter 106 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by adding the following new Sections after G.S. 106-322:

"§ 106-323.  State-Federal Hog Cholera Cooperative Agreements and Establishment of Hog Cholera Eradication Areas. The Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to enter into cooperative State-Federal agreements with the United States Department of Agriculture for the purpose of State-Federal programs for the control and eradication of hog cholera. The Commissioner of Agriculture may designate individual counties or two or more counties as hog cholera eradication areas.

"§ 106-324.  Indemnity Payments. If it appears to be necessary for the control and eradication of hog cholera to destroy or slaughter swine affected with such disease and to compensate the owners for the loss thereof, the State veterinarian is authorized to agree on the part of the State, in the case of swine destroyed or slaughtered on account of being affected with hog cholera or exposure to same to pay one-third of the difference between the appraised value of each animal destroyed or slaughtered and the value of the salvage thereof; provided, that the State indemnity shall not be in excess of the indemnity payments made by the Federal cooperating agency; provided further, that State indemnity payments shall be restricted to swine located on the farm or feed lot of the owner or authorized representative of the owner; provided further, that in no case shall any payments by the State be more than twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) for any grade animal nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for any purebred animal and subject to available State funds. The procedure such as appraisal, disposal and salvage for killing such diseased and exposed swine shall be carried out in the same manner as that required under the General Statutes of North Carolina governing compensation for killing other diseased animals."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 106-316.5 and G.S. 106-320 are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1963.