47-650. Petition to animal health commissioner; hog-cholera-control organization. Upon the presentation to the state animal health commissioner of a petition signed by 50 farmers who are resident taxpayers of any county in this state asking that they be permitted to establish a county hog cholera-control organization in their county, such commissioner shall notify in writing the president of Kansas state university and the inspector in charge of the office of the United States department of agriculture, animal plant health inspection service, veterinary services, that a meeting will be held at the county seat of the county at a certain date and hour to perfect the organization prayed for in the petition. All persons attending such meeting shall proceed to perfect the establishment of the ______ county hog cholera-control organization by choosing a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer and one farmer from each township in the county, who in connection with such officers, shall constitute the executive board of the ______ county hog cholera-control organization.

History: L. 1917, ch. 233, § 1; R.S. 1923, 47-650; L. 1989, ch. 156, § 36; L. 2012, ch. 140, § 59; July 1.