Section 6
SEC. 6. The Director of Agriculture is hereby authorized— (a) to maintain inoculation, quarantine, and detention stations for domestic animals m such places as may be approved from time to time by the arriving from time to time by the Secretary of the Interior, and to place all animals arriving from the foreign and domestic ports of interior places in quarantine for such time as he may deem necessary to prevent the introduction and spread of dangerous communicable animal diseases. (b) To inspect all domestic animals arriving by boat, rail, or otherwise in the cities, ports, or places where quarantine stations are maintained and in such other places as he may deem necessary for the purpose of preventing the introduction and spread of dangerous communicable animal diseases within the Philippine Islands. (c) To require that animals which are suffering from dangerous communicable diseases or have been exposed thereto be placed in quarantine at such place and for such time as may be deemed by him necessary to prevent the spread of such disease. (d) To require the cleaning and disinfecting of any utensil, place, corral, yard, or building deemed by him to be infected with dangerous communicable animal disease, and to prohibit the keeping of any domestic animals in such place, corral, yard, or building until it has been placed in a sanitary condition. (e) To require the cleaning and disinfecting of any boat, car, vehicle, or other conveyance deemed by him to be infected with dangerous communicable animal disease, and to prohibit its further use for transporting domestic animals until it has been placed in a sanitary condition. (f) To cooperate with provincial and municipal boards in the suppression of dangerous communicable animal diseases and in the establishment and maintenance of municipal slaughterhouse and milk-inspection systems, the object of which shall be to prevent the slaughter and sale of animals having diseases or injuries of such a nature as to render Hie meats and other food products derived from thorn dangerous or unwholesome for human food.