Kansas Animal Health Department

Kansas Animal Health Department is now the Division of Animal Health within the Kansas Department of Agriculture. 

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K.S.A. 47-1219 - Unlawful disposal; penalty.

1. Any person or persons who shall put any dead animals, carcasses of such animals or domestic fowl, or any part thereof, into any well, spring, brook, branch, river, creek, pond, road, street, alley, lane, lot, field, meadow or common shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $100.
2. Any owner or owners of any dead animals, carcasses of such animals or domestic fowl, or any part thereof, who shall knowingly permit the same to remain in any well, spring, brook, branch, river, creek, pond, road, street, alley, lane, lot, field, meadow or common to the injury of the health or to the annoyance of or damage to the citizens of the state or any of them, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $100. Every 24 hours the owners shall permit the same to remain thereafter shall be deemed an additional offense.
3. Persons disposing of dead animals shall do so in one of the following ways:
   1. Burial;
   2. Incineration;
   3. Delivery or unloading of the carcasses of dead animals or packing house refuse at a disposal plant, substation, rendering plant or place of transfer licensed by the commissioner; or
   4. Composting.

Animals should be buried a minimum of three feet underground.