23. Any person may, by special notice, call upon the owner of or the person keeping any sheep or other domestic animals, attacked or affected with scab or other contagious disease, to isolate and keep apart such sheep or other animals.
Such notice may be given verbally to such owner or person by the complainant, by speaking to any reasonable person in any house built upon the land on which such animals are, or at the domicile of the person who has received such animals to pasture, by speaking to him personally, or to any reasonable member of his family.
R. S. 1964, c. 130, s. 23.