TITLE 50 - ANIMALS
- Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture
- Chapter 562 - Sheep
- Chapter 563 - Promotion of Livestock
- Chapter 564 - Brands and Marks
- 564.010 - Definitions.
- 564.020 - Owner may adopt brand or mark; recording; unlawful earmark.
- 564.025 - Branding or marking of all animals grazing on open range required; application for temporary use of brand recorded or registered in another state; exception.
- 564.030 - Powers and duties of Director.
- 564.040 - Application for recording of brand or mark.
- 564.050 - One brand to be awarded or recorded for each owner; brands for separate livestock units; identical or similar brands; recording of unlawful earmarks prohibited.
- 564.055 - Recording of cattle brands.
- 564.060 - Award of brand upon receipt of application; contents of recording certificate; precedence of applications; refusal or inability of Department to award or record brand.
- 564.070 - Recording of brands by Department; procedure; certificate to be transmitted to owner; evidentiary effect of certificate.
- 564.075 - Amendment of record of brands and marks; application; form.
- 564.080 - Fees.
- 564.090 - Evidentiary effect of certificates of recordation.
- 564.100 - Legal status of certificates of rerecordation issued pursuant to 1923 law.
- 564.110 - Brands and marks subject to transfer; recording of instruments transferring ownership; notice to Department of existence of security agreement, assignment or lien.
- 564.115 - Transfer of brands and marks upon death of owner.
- 564.120 - Rerecording of brands and marks: Application; fee; notice; abandonment; certificates; limitation on recording new brands.
- 564.130 - Brand books and supplements: Issuance by Department; costs.
- 564.140 - Unlawful to use brand on position on animal or in area other than those authorized; application for change of position, new position or change in area; unlawful to deface or remove recorded
- 564.150 - Penalties.
- Chapter 565 - Inspection of Brands
- 565.010 - Definitions.
- 565.030 - Administration and enforcement by Department.
- 565.040 - Creation of brand inspection districts; animals subject to inspection; adoption and publication of regulations.
- 565.070 - Fees for brand inspection.
- 565.090 - Removal of animals from brand inspection district without clearance certificate or permit unlawful; notice of contemplated movement; applicability of section; penalty; regulations for permit
- 565.100 - Unlawful to consign for slaughter, slaughter or transfer ownership within brand inspection district without inspection and issuance of clearance certificate.
- 565.110 - Assembly of animals for brand inspection.
- 565.120 - Brand inspection clearance certificate: Issuance upon completion of inspection; contents; disposition of copies of certificate.
- 565.125 - Seizure of privately owned animals by governmental entity; approval of seizure by court; submission of order of court to Department.
- 565.130 - Refusal to issue certificate or permit: Grounds; duty of Department and inspector to prevent unlawful removal of animals.
- 565.140 - Inspector to give notice to legal owner upon discovery of animals in possession of another; contents of notice.
- 565.150 - Seizure and disposal of animals by inspector when legal ownership cannot be determined.
- 565.155 - Enforcement of chapter.
- 565.160 - Right of Department to inspect animals under other laws unaffected.
- 565.170 - Penalties.
- Chapter 566 - Inspection and Possession of Hides and Carcasses
- 566.015 - “Department” defined.
- 566.025 - Conditions authorizing possession of carcass of bovine animal.
- 566.027 - Persons slaughtering cattle without formal inspection system required to retain hides for 30 days; exhibition of hides or certificate of release.
- 566.035 - Inspection by inspectors of Department and peace officers.
- Chapter 567 - Noxious and Predatory Animals; Property-Destroying Birds
- Chapter 568 - Grazing and Ranging
- Chapter 569 - Estrays and Livestock
- Chapter 571 - Diseased Animals
- Chapter 573 - Public Sales of Livestock
- 573.010 - Definitions.
- 573.015 - Declaration of policy.
- 573.020 - Holding of public livestock auction without license prohibited; procedure for application for license.
- 573.030 - Bond required for issuance of license; deposit in lieu of bond.
- 573.033 - Details and amount of bond; liability of surety.
- 573.035 - Bond of market agency.
- 573.037 - Deposit in lieu of bond: Amount; action for recovery against deposit; retention by Department.
- 573.040 - Fee for license.
- 573.050 - Issuance of license.
- 573.060 - Separate license required for each establishment or premises.
- 573.070 - Form of license.
- 573.080 - Renewal of license.
- 573.090 - Display of license.
- 573.100 - Denial, suspension or revocation of license; notice and hearing.
- 573.103 - Audits of accounts.
- 573.104 - Custodial accounts for consignors’ proceeds.
- 573.105 - Line of credit: Duty of Department to ascertain continued existence and amount or replacement; suspension of license for failure to maintain.
- 573.106 - Payment of net proceeds of sales to consignors.
- 573.107 - Actions by consignor creditor or Director on bond.
- 573.108 - Duties of Director when licensee fails to pay consignor creditor; settlement or compromise on bond; action by Director; subpoenas.
- 573.109 - District court’s power to compel attendance of witnesses and production of books and papers; orders.
- 573.110 - Records to be maintained by licensee: Contents; location; inspection; retention.
- 573.120 - Records to be maintained by person buying or receiving livestock for slaughter on consignment or for commission or fee: Contents; inspection; retention.
- 573.125 - Operator to issue receipts to purchasers.
- 573.130 - Regulation of sales of livestock under quarantine or infected or exposed to contagious, infectious or parasitic livestock disease; testing, treating and examination of livestock.
- 573.140 - Sanitation of premises; facilities for feed and water.
- 573.150 - Inspection and testing of scales.
- 573.160 - Inspection of premises and records by Department.
- 573.165 - Approved space and facilities to be provided for brand inspection.
- 573.170 - Change of sale days: Procedure; special sales.
- 573.175 - Security agreements not impaired.
- 573.180 - Exemption from provisions of chapter for nonprofit organizations and associations.
- 573.183 - Cease and desist orders.
- 573.185 - Injunctions; restraining orders.
- 573.190 - Penalties.
- Chapter 574 - Cruelty to Animals: Prevention and Penalties
- Chapter 575 - Miscellaneous Provisions; Collection of Taxes
- Chapter 576 - Livestock and Farm Products: Dealers, Brokers, Commission Merchants, Cash Buyers and Agents; Alternative Livestock
- 576.010 - Definitions.
- 576.0115 - “Agent” defined.
- 576.012 - “Alternative livestock” defined.
- 576.0125 - “Broker” defined.
- 576.013 - “Cash buyer” defined.
- 576.0135 - “Commission merchant” defined.
- 576.014 - “Consignor” defined.
- 576.0145 - “Dealer” defined.
- 576.015 - “Department” defined.
- 576.0152 - “Director” defined.
- 576.0155 - “Farm products” defined.
- 576.016 - “Fixed and established place of business” defined.
- 576.0165 - “Immediate resale” defined.
- 576.017 - “Livestock” defined.
- 576.018 - “Producer” defined.
- 576.020 - Acting as broker, dealer, commission merchant or agent without license prohibited; license not required for cash buyer or agent of cash buyer.
- 576.030 - Application for license: Contents; additional requirements for commission merchants and agents; appointment of Director as attorney upon whom process may be served. [Effective until the date
- 576.032 - Additional requirements for issuance and renewal of license: Statement regarding obligation of child support; grounds for denial of license; duty of Department. [Effective until the date of
- 576.035 - Applicant to make showing of character, responsibility and good faith.
- 576.040 - Bonds and other security; penalty for selling or encumbering security for bond.
- 576.042 - Civil action for misrepresentation or fraud; limitation of actions; service of process.
- 576.045 - Retention of money or securities deposited in lieu of bond after operations cease.
- 576.048 - Revocation for default; publication of notice of revocation.
- 576.050 - Annual license fee.
- 576.060 - Investigation of applicant; issuance of license. [Effective until the date of the repeal of the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restr
- 576.080 - Form and contents of licenses.
- 576.090 - Expiration of licenses.
- 576.095 - Licensing of other classifications without payment of fee.
- 576.100 - Agents: Designation; licensing; notice to Department; responsibility of principal; application.
- 576.110 - Investigation of transactions involving farm products.
- 576.120 - Grounds for refusing to grant or renew or for suspension or revocation of license or registration; notice and hearing.
- 576.121 - Mandatory suspension of license for failure to pay child support or comply with certain subpoenas or warrants; reinstatement of license. [Effective until the date of the repeal of the federa
- 576.123 - Records of commission merchants, dealers and brokers.
- 576.125 - Accounting and remittances by commission merchants; records of sales; payments by dealers; penalties for nonpayment.
- 576.127 - Cargo manifests required to be carried on motor vehicles operated by dealers and commission merchants; suspension or cancellation of license for false statements on manifest.
- 576.128 - Certification as actual producer of agricultural product: Regulations of Department; fees for certification; exemption from certain taxes and fees.
- 576.129 - Alternative livestock: Permit required; regulations of State Board of Agriculture.
- 576.131 - Alternative livestock: Recapture of escaped livestock; impoundment; liability of owner.
- 576.133 - Cease and desist orders.
- 576.135 - Injunctions; restraining orders.
- 576.137 - Exemption for cash buyer purchasing for own use.
- 576.140 - Inapplicability of chapter.
- 576.150 - Civil and criminal penalties; venue.