Kansas Statutes 47-1011a. Brand inspection fees; additional fees collected, when; disposition of fees; livestock market brand inspection fee fund
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 47-1011a
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Commissioner: means the animal health commissioner of the Kansas department of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
- Consignor: means any person who ships or delivers to any public livestock market livestock for handling, sale or resale at a public livestock market. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- 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 are not indigenous to this state, including, but not limited to, ostriches, emus and rheas, and any other animal as deemed necessary by the commissioner established through rules and regulations. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
- Person: means and includes any individual, partnership, corporation or association. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
- Public livestock market: means any place, establishment or facility commonly known as a "livestock market" "livestock auction market" "sales ring" "stockyard" "community sale" as such term is used in article 10 of chapter 47 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, which includes any business conducted or operated for compensation or profit as a public market for livestock, consisting of pens, or other enclosures, and their appurtenances, in which livestock are received, held, sold or kept for sale or shipment except that this term shall not apply to any livestock market where federal veterinary inspection is regularly maintained. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
- Public livestock market operator: means any person who, in this state, receives on consignment, or solicits from the producer or consignor thereof, or holds in trust or custody for another, any livestock for sale or exchange, on behalf of such producer or consignor at a public livestock market, or sells, or offer for sale, at a public livestock market, for the account of the producer or consignor thereof, any livestock or directly or indirectly owns, conducts or operates a public livestock market. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(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, in addition to amounts specified in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 47-1011, and amendments thereto, a sum of not more than $.40 per head on all such cattle. Such amount shall be determined by the animal health commissioner. If a public livestock market operator requests brand inspection at a public livestock market pursuant to this section, the public livestock market operator shall contract with the animal health commissioner to perform such brand inspection services.
(b) The public livestock market operator shall pay all amounts received under this section to the animal health commissioner.
(c) The animal health commissioner shall remit all amounts received under this section to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the livestock market brand inspection fee fund. All expenditures from such fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the animal health commissioner or by a person or persons designated by the commissioner.