Nevada Code § 554.190

Fumigation, disinfection or treatment of quarantined agricultural commodity: Costs; responsibilities of owner; penalty and authorized action if owner refuses or neglects to perform; lien on owners property
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1. All costs of fumigation, disinfection
or treatment ordered to be performed by the State Quarantine Officer shall be
borne by the owner of the agricultural commodity.
2. The owner or, in the owners absence,
the owners agent, manager or foreman, shall perform the fumigation,
disinfection or treatment promptly and exactly as instructed and not otherwise.
The refusal or neglect so to do shall be a misdemeanor.
3. In the case of refusal or neglect by
the owner, agent, manager or foreman to perform the fumigation, disinfection or
treatment as instructed, the State Quarantine Officer or any person deputized
by the State Quarantine Officer may enter upon the premises and perform the
fumigation, disinfection or treatment. All the costs thereof shall attach as a
lien against any property of the owner within the State. On the neglect or
refusal of the owner promptly to pay the same on presentation of an itemized bill
certified to by the State Quarantine Officer or the State Quarantine Officers
deputy, the district attorney of the county shall forthwith proceed to levy an
attachment against any property of the owner within the State for the amount
due plus the costs of legal proceedings, and shall proceed to collect the same
by foreclosure proceedings.

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