177A.11 - QUARANTINE -- GENERAL POWERS.
177A.11 QUARANTINE -- GENERAL POWERS.
Whenever the state entomologist shall find that there exists
outside of this state any insect pest or disease, and that its
introduction into this state should be prevented in order to
safeguard plants and plant products in this state, the state
entomologist is authorized to quarantine and promulgate quarantine
restrictions covering areas within the states affected by the pest
and may adopt, issue, and enforce rules supplemental to such
quarantines for the control of the pest. Under such quarantines, the
state entomologist or the state entomologist's authorized agents may
prohibit and prevent the movement within the state without
inspection, or the shipment or transportation within the state, of
any agricultural or horticultural product, or any other material of
any character whatsoever, capable of carrying any dangerously
injurious insect pest or disease in any living state of its
development; and, in the enforcement of such quarantine, may
intercept, stop, and detain for official inspection any person, car,
vessel, boat, truck, automobile, aircraft, wagon, vehicles or
carriers or any container, material, or substance believed or known
to be carrying the insect pest or plant disease in any living state
of its development in violation of said quarantines or of the rules
issued supplemental thereto, and may seize, possess, and destroy any
agricultural or horticultural product or other material of any
character whatsoever, moved, shipped, or transported in violation of
such quarantines or the rules. Section History: Early Form
[S13, § 2575-a48; C24, § 4049; C27, 31, 35, § 4062-b11; C39, §
4062.11; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 267.11; C75, 77, 79,
81, § 177A.11]
Referred to in § 177A.19