As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) “Department” means the Kentucky Department of Agriculture; (2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Agriculture;
(3) “Board” means the State Board of Agriculture; (4) “Stockyard” means a facility regulated by:
(a) The United States Secretary of Agriculture under the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (42 Stat. 159), as amended, and regulations promulgated under these statutes by the Secretary of Agriculture; or
(b) The department under this chapter and administrative regulations promulgated under this chapter.
A stockyard includes any place, establishment, or facility commonly known as a stockyard, which is conducted, operated, or managed for profit or nonprofit as a public market for livestock producers, feeders, market agencies, and buyers, consisting of pens or other enclosures and their appurtenances, in which livestock are received, held, or kept for sale or shipment in commerce;
(5) “Buying station” means a facility that is conducted, operated, or managed as a private livestock market that offers stockyard services;
(6) “Stockyard services” means services or facilities furnished at a stockyard or buying station in connection with the:
(a) Receiving, buying, or selling of livestock in commerce on a commission basis or otherwise; or
(b) Marketing, feeding, watering, holding, delivering, shipping, weighing, or handling of livestock in commerce;
(7) “Owner or operator” means persons responsible for the operation of each individual stockyard or buying station;
(8) “Market agency” means a person engaged in the business of:
(a) Buying or selling livestock in commerce on a commission basis; or
(b) Furnishing stockyard services;
(9) “Livestock dealer” means any person, not a market agency, who:
(a) Is regularly engaged in the business of buying or selling livestock in commerce, either on his or her own account or as the employee or agent of the vendor or purchaser; or
(b) Owns or operates a buying station; and
(10) “Livestock” means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, or other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species.
Effective:June 29, 2017
History: Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 129, sec. 26, effective June 29, 2017. — Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 28, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2012. — Amended
2006 Ky. Acts ch. 225, sec. 2, effective July 12, 2006. — Created 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 130, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1954.
Legislative Research Commission Note. Pursuant to Acts 1962, ch. 139, sec. 2, the reviser has substituted “department of agriculture” for “department of
agriculture, labor and statistics” in this chapter.