Kansas Statutes 47-1725. Kansas pet animal advisory board; duties and powers
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 47-1725
- Animal: means any live dog, cat, rabbit, rodent, nonhuman primate, bird or other warm-blooded vertebrate or any fish, snake or other cold-blooded vertebrate. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
- Animal breeder: means any person who operates an animal breeder premises. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
- Animal distributor: means any person who operates an animal distributor premises. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
- Boarding or training kennel operator: means any person who operates an establishment where four or more dogs or cats, or both, are maintained in any one week during the license year for boarding, training or similar purposes for a fee or compensation. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
- Commissioner: means the animal health commissioner of the Kansas department of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
- Hobby breeder: means any person who operates a hobby breeder premises. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
- Person: means any individual, association, partnership, corporation or other entity. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
- Pet shop: means any premises where there are sold, or offered or maintained for sale, at retail and not for resale to another:
(A) Any dogs or cats, or both; or
(B) any other animals except those that are produced and raised on such premises and are sold, or offered or maintained for sale, by a person who resides on such premises. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
- pound: means a facility that is used or designed for use to house, contain, impound or harbor any seized stray, homeless, relinquished or abandoned animal or a person who acts as an animal rescuer, or who collects and cares for unwanted animals or offers them for adoption. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
- Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
- Research facility: means any place, laboratory or institution, except an elementary school, secondary school, college or university, at which any scientific test, experiment or investigation involving the use of any living animal is carried out, conducted or attempted. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
- Retail: means any transaction where the animal is sold to the final consumer. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
- Retail breeder: means any person who operates a retail breeder premises. See Kansas Statutes 47-1701
(a) There is hereby created the Kansas pet animal advisory board, consisting of 10 members. Members shall be appointed by the governor as follows:
(1) One member shall be a representative of a licensed animal shelter or pound;
(2) one member shall be an employee of a licensed research facility;
(3) one member shall be a licensed animal breeder;
(4) one member shall be a licensed retail breeder;
(5) one member shall be a licensed pet shop operator;
(6) one member shall be a licensed veterinarian and shall be selected from a list of three names presented to the governor by the Kansas veterinary medical association;
(7) one member shall be a private citizen with no link to the industry;
(8) one member shall be a licensed animal distributor;
(9) one member shall be a licensed hobby breeder; and
(10) one member shall be a licensed boarding or training kennel operator.
(b) Each member shall be appointed for a term of three years and until a successor is appointed and qualified.
(c) A vacancy on the board of a member shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by the governor.
(d) The board shall meet at least once every calendar quarter regularly or at such other times as the chairperson or a majority of the board members determine. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for conducting board business.
(e) The members of the board shall annually elect a chairperson.
(f) The board shall have the following duties, authorities and powers:
(1) To advise the Kansas animal health commissioner on hiring a director to implement the Kansas pet animal act;
(2) to review the status of the Kansas pet animal act;
(3) to make recommendations on changes to the Kansas pet animal act; and
(4) to make recommendations concerning the rules and regulations for the Kansas pet animal act.
(g) Board members who are required to be licensed, except retail breeders, shall be affiliated with or a member of an organized pet animal association which is representative of the position such person will hold on the board.