47-1001. Definitions. As used in this act, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (a) “Commissioner” means the animal health commissioner of the Kansas department of agriculture. (b) “Livestock” means and includes cattle, bison, swine, sheep, goats, horses, mules, domesticated deer, camelids, domestic poultry, domestic waterfowl, all creatures of the ratite family that […]
47-1001a. License required to operate market; application form; fee; bond. No person shall conduct or operate a public livestock market unless and until such person has a license therefor, upon which the current annual market license fee has been paid. Any person making application for an original market license shall do so to the commissioner […]
47-1001b. Application for market license; notice and hearing; removal of market to another location within county; notice; finding of commissioner or board. Upon the filing of such application, the commissioner shall conduct a hearing in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act. The commissioner shall serve notice and a copy of the […]
47-1001c. Hearing on application for market license; issuance of license, when; matters considered. A hearing may be conducted by the board and the commissioner. After a hearing upon such application the application, conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act, if the board finds from the evidence presented that such public […]
47-1001d. Occasional livestock sales; exemptions; license. (a) The animal health commissioner, through rules and regulations, may exempt occasional livestock sales or issue a license for such occasional livestock sales at a fee of not more than $100 without a hearing. (b) All livestock consigned and delivered on the premises of any licensed occasional livestock sale, […]
47-1001e. Annual renewal fee; license period; electronic auction license; renewal; fees. (a) Each livestock market operator shall pay annually, on or before September 30, a renewal market license fee in an amount set by the Kansas animal health board and adopted by rules and regulations of the commissioner of not more than $250 to the […]
47-1001f. When license transferable; renewable, when. Each market license is personal to the holder and to the facilities covered thereby, and transferable only upon application in the same form and manner as new applications for such market licenses, except when an owner shall sell and convey a market to a bona fide purchaser who is […]
47-1002. Bond, conditions; expiration date of license; damage actions; issuance of license after bond given. (a) The bond required by K.S.A. 47-1001a, and amendments thereto, shall be in the minimum amount of $20,000 for each license year or fraction thereof, but may be a continuous bond. Each license year shall expire on September 30. Such […]
47-1002a. Release of surety on bond; notice to principal. Any surety on a bond furnished by any community sale dealer, or applicant for community sale dealer’s license, shall be released and discharged from any and all liability under said bond accruing on such bond after the expiration of sixty days from the date upon which […]
47-1003. Investigations; arrests; access. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act, the commissioner shall have power to make investigations and arrest any persons found violating this act and shall have, at all reasonable times, free and uninterrupted access to any and all buildings, yards, pens, chutes, or scales in or upon which […]
47-1004. Investigation, examination, inspection; hearing; suspension or revocation of license. The commissioner may investigate, examine or inspect any transaction or happening which may involve a violation or alleged violation of this act or any rule and regulation or order lawfully issued and promulgated by the commissioner thereunder. In the furtherance of any such examination, investigation […]
47-1005. Grounds for refusal, revocation or suspension of license. (a) After notice and an opportunity for a hearing, conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act, the commissioner may refuse to grant a license, or suspend or revoke a license, upon a finding of the existence of any of the following […]
47-1005c. Per diem for board members; expenses. The members of the board shall receive for their services a per diem of twenty-five dollars ($25) and subsistence and travel expense. History: L. 1965, ch. 333, § 12; June 30.
47-1007. Report of sales; remittance. The dealer shall, promptly following the sale or exchange of any livestock consigned or delivered to him, transmit or deliver to the producer or consignor a true report of such sales showing the amount sold and the selling price. Remittance in full of the amount realized from such sales, less […]
47-1008. Prohibition on sale of certain infected or injured livestock; euthanasia or order to remove from market, expenses; inspection by accredited veterinarian; contracts for service and filing certificates of inspection; inspection fees; minimum per diem for inspector to be negotiated; use and disposition of fees; veterinary inspection fee fund; rules and regulations; electronic auctions; health […]
47-1009. Dealer to keep books and records; reports to commissioner. Each dealer shall keep such books, records, accounts and memoranda of the business transacted at each community sale conducted and operated by such dealer hereunder, as shall show, among other things, the date on which each lot of livestock was received by the dealer, together […]
47-1010. Penalties for unlawful acts. (a) In addition to the penalties provided in subsection (b), any person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 or more than $1,000, who commits any of the following acts: (1) Assumes or attempts to act as […]
47-1010a. Inapplicability of act to certain businesses. Nothing in this act shall in any manner affect any person engaged in the business of buying or assembling livestock for the purpose of shipment to any packinghouse which is subject to regulation under what is commonly known as the packers and stockyards act of 1921, or for […]
47-1011. Fees for sale of livestock; disposition of moneys. (a) The public livestock market operator shall collect from the consignor of horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep and goats the fee per head on all such livestock sold at a public livestock market in the amount fixed by the commissioner under this section. The public livestock […]
47-1011a. Brand inspection fees; additional fees collected, when; disposition of fees; livestock market brand inspection fee fund. (a) The public livestock market operator shall collect from the consignor of cattle sold at a public livestock market, where brand inspection of such cattle is requested, by the public livestock market operator, as a brand inspection fee, […]
