The stud books and signatures of the duly authorized officers of the following American horse and jack pedigree registry association, societies or companies, certified by the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., in Bureau of Animal Industry, Order No. 136, June 20, 1906, and in the amendments thereto: By Whom Published. American Association of Cleveland Bay Society of National French Draft nets Stock Studbook Percheron Percheron Stud- ica Percheron ister Percheron ciation of Jacks and Jennets, J. W. Jones, Secretary, Columbia, Tenn. Percheron Society of America, Wayne Dinsmore, Secretary, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill. Percheron Reg- The Percheron Registry The American Percheron Reg- Company, Chas. C. Glenn, The Jockey Club, W. H. The said Stallion Registration Board shall accept as pure bred entitled to a license certificate as such, each stallion or jack for which a pedigree registry certificate is furnished the inspector bearing the signature of the duly authorized officers of one of the above named associations, societies or companies. SEC. 3. (Certificate Form.) The certificates for stallions shall be of two forms, one for pure breds, and one for grades. Each certificate shall state the name of the stallion or jack and if pure bred the registered number and the name of the stud book in which such stallion or jack is registered. Each certificate shall bear the name of the importer or breeder, the name of the present owner, a description of the color, the year foaled and inspector's statement as to whether said stallion or jack is sound or unsound. If unsound the certificate shall contain the names of the diseases, the location of which shall be indicated by means of a small diagram of a stallion properly marked by the inspector. Each certificate shall bear the signatures of the inspector, and secretary of the Stallion Registration Board, and shall have attached thereto the official seal of said Board. A grade shall be defined as a stallion or jack whose owner presents the affidavit of two persons that said grade has either a sire or dam of pure breeding. SEC. 4. (Qualifications). No stallion or jack which may come into the state of Nebraska, after this act shall take effect, shall be given a certificate if such stallion or jack is affected with one or more of the following diseases, namely: urethal gleet, melanosis, periodic ophthalmia (moonblindness), laryngeal hemiplegia, (roaring), cataract, amaurosis (glass eye), chorea (St. Vitus dance), string halt, bone spavin, bog, spavin, ring bone, side bone, curb, with curly formation of hock, or is seriously defective in conformation, or vicious dispostiion. SEC. 5. Re-Examination. Every stallion or jack which has been granted a certificate by the Stallion Registration Board shall be re-examined by an authorized veterinarian each year thereafter and said Board shall have the power to revoke certificates for cause. Exceptions: Stallions over eight years of age having had three prior annual sound certificates from this Board shall be exempt from further examinations, except for contagious or infectious disease, upon display of age certificate issued by the Stallion Registration Board, age to date from January 1 of the year of its birth. Every certificate except "Transfer" shall be for the calendar year. Colts less than eighteen months old are not classified as stallions and are not subject to inspection except by request of owner or agent. SEC. 6. Certificate Posted. Every owner or keeper of a stallion or jack kept for services shall keep posted the certificates issued by the Stallion Registration Board or a copy of the same, during the entire breeding season, in a conspicuous place within every shed or building in which such stallion or jack is kept for service. SEC. 7. Advertisements. No owner or keeper of a stallion not of pure breeding shall permit the printing, publishing or circulating of any bill, poster, card, newspaper advertisement or other advertisement calling attention to said stallion as a breeder, unless the same shall have the words "grade stallion" in two inch type immediately preceding such name. SEC. 8. Record of Certificate. It shall be the duty of the Stallion Registration Board to keep a record of all certificates and the issuance, refusal or revocation of the same. SEC. 9. Certificate Transfer. If the owner of the stal lion or jack shall sell, exchange, or transfer the same, said Stallion Registration Board shall, upon receiving the certificate in force at the time of the sale and satisfactory proof of such change in ownership, issue to the new owner a certificate of transfer of ownership. - SEC. 10. Fees. A fee of Three Dollars ($3.00) shall be paid for each certificate, for each renewal three dollars ($3.00) for each transfer of ownership twenty-five cents (25c), and two dollars ($2.00) for age certificate. If the owner or lessee of any stallion or jack after due notification by the Stallion Registration Board, fails to deliver said stallion or jack for inspection in all cases on the day and at the place designated by the Stallion Registration Board, the fees of such inspection may, in the discretion of the Board, be doubled. The inspection as far as practical shall be made at the place where stallions or jacks are kept. SEC. 11. Funds, How Used. The funds accruing from registration shall be used by the Stallion Registration Board for printing, office supplies, secretary and clerical service, payment of inspectors, and the publication of an annual report which shall contain an alphabetical list of stallions and jacks which have been granted certificates and a full and complete account of all money received and expended. SEC. 12. Violation of Act, Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty (30) days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 13. Certificates heretofore issued. All 1913 inspections made and certificates issued by the Nebraska Stallion Registration Board, W. R. Mellor, Secretary, are hereby ordered recognized as valid for the current year, by this Board hereby created. SEC. 14. Repeals. That sections 3302, 3303, 3304, 3305, and 3306 of Cobbey's Annotated Statutes for 1911 |