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The carcasses of all animals dying or slaughtered because they were infected or suspected of being infected with a contagious or infectious disease shall, wherever practicable, be destroyed by cremation, and when this cannot reasonably be done, shall be buried at least four feet below the surface of the ground after being covered with quicklime. Every person who, without lawful authority or excuse, digs up, or causes to be dug up, the buried carcass of an animal which has died, or is suspected of having died, from an infectious or contagious disease, or which has been slaughtered as diseased, or as suspected of disease, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200), or imprisonment for one month in jail, or to both fine and imprisonment. History —Mar. 14, 1907, p. 85, § 6, eff. July 1, 1907.