NRS571.220. Quarantine, cleaning and disinfection of places where animals handled; payment of expenses.

      1.  The State Quarantine Officer shall quarantine any corrals, pens, slaughterhouses, buildings, places, cars, trucks or vehicles where any animal may have been handled, and compel the cleaning and disinfecting of such places or vehicles when deemed necessary for the purposes of this chapter.

      2.  Where owners or persons in charge of such places or vehicles refuse to clean and disinfect them, an inspector may take charge of such places or vehicles and cause them to be cleaned and disinfected. The expense of such cleaning and disinfecting must be paid by the owners or persons in charge, and is a lien upon such corrals, pens, slaughterhouses, buildings, places, cars, trucks or vehicles until the expense is paid.

      (Added to NRS by 1961, 511; A 2003, 2162)