Any person commissioned by the governor, or the livestock commission, or any other proper authority of another state may act as a livestock detective in this state in accordance with Minnesota law upon paying a fee of $5 and filing with the department of agriculture:

1. (1) a commission or a certified copy of it;
2. (2) a bond to the state in the penal sum of $2,000, approved by the commissioner of agriculture and conditioned for the payment of all damages resulting to any person from any wrongful seizure of property or other unlawful act within the state by the person or by any of the person's deputies; and

3. (3) a stipulation that service upon the commissioner of agriculture of any summons, order, notice, or process in a civil action upon the bond is sufficient service upon the person or the person's deputies.

   The commissioner of agriculture shall issue certificates to the person and no more than three of the person's deputies for whose acts the person is responsible, authorizing the holder to perform the duties in this section while the commission is in force. Each certificate holder may seize and hold any animal which the person knows or has reason to believe has strayed or been stolen from the state by which the commission issued.