Sec. 4.
The commissioner of agriculture shall issue enrollment certificates. Such enrollment certificate shall have a distinctive number and be such as to show the true breeding and physical condition of the stallion enrolled. The commissioner of agriculture may refuse to issue an enrollment certificate for any stallion in which stallion the presence of any 1 of the following named diseases in a transmissible, hereditary or contagious form shall be shown so as to render such stallion unsuitable to improve the horse stock of the state: Cataract; amaurosis (glass eye); periodic ophthalmia (moon blindness); laryngeal hemiplegia (roaring or whistling); pulmonary emphysema (heaves, broken wind); chorea (St. Vitus' dance, crampiness, shivering, string halt); bone spavin; ringbone; side bone; navicular disease; bog spavin; curb, with curby formation of hock; glanders, farcy; maladie du coit; urethral gleet; mange; melanosis; or any contagious or infectious disease. The commissioner of agriculture may refuse to issue an enrollment certificate for any stallion deemed unfit to improve the horse stock of the state. The owner of any stallion to whom an enrollment certificate shall be issued shall post and keep affixed copies of such enrollment certificate in a conspicuous place both within and upon the outside of every building where such stallion is kept for public service.
History: 1929, Act 72, Eff. Aug. 28, 1929 ;-- CL 1929, 5281 ;-- CL 1948, 287.204 ;-- Am. 1949, Act 224, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949
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