Kansas Statutes 65-6a34. Engaging in business; registration required; annual fee; reinstatement fee
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-6a34
- Animal food manufacturer: means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or processing animal food derived wholly or in part from carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of livestock, domestic rabbits or poultry. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
- Broker: means any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat food products of livestock on commission, or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for the person's own account or as an employee of another person. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
- Intrastate commerce: means commerce within the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Livestock: means cattle, buffaloes, sheep, swine, goats, domesticated deer, all creatures of the ratite family that are not indigenous to this state, including but not limited to ostriches, emus and rheas or horses, mules or other equines. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
- Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Person: means any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other business unit or governmental entity. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
- Poultry: means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
- Processing facility: means any facility or section thereof that packs, cans, salts, renders, bones, cuts up or otherwise manufactures meat or poultry into meat food products or poultry products. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
- Public warehouseman: means any person engaged in the business of storing for commerce any meat, meat products, poultry or poultry products without assuming ownership of the product in storage. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
- Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
- Slaughter facility: means any facility or section thereof which carries on the slaughter and dressing of animals. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Wholesaler: means any person engaged in the distribution of inspected and passed meat, meat products, poultry or poultry products. See Kansas Statutes 65-6a18
(a) No person shall: (1) Engage in business, in or for intrastate commerce, as a broker or animal food manufacturer; (2) engage in business in such commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of any livestock, domestic rabbits or poultry, whether intended for human food or other purposes; or (3) engage in business as a public warehouseman storing any such articles in or for such commerce, without first having registered with the secretary such person’s name and the address of each place of business at which, and all trade names under which, such person conducts such business and having paid the $25 registration fee.
(b) No person shall engage in business or operate as a slaughter or processing facility solely on a custom basis as described by subsection (b)(1) of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6a31, and amendments thereto; a slaughter facility, processing facility, state-owned slaughter or processing facility operated in conjunction with education and research and located at institutions under the jurisdiction of the state board of regents, or slaughter or processing facility operated in conjunction with education and research and located at a public secondary school without registering such person’s name and place of business with the secretary, and paying the $25 registration fee.
(c) Any person whose completed application for renewal of a registration required by this section is not received by January 15 of the year of renewal shall be subject to a reinstatement fee which shall be paid in addition to the required registration fee. If the completed application for renewal of a registration required by this section is received by the secretary after January 15 and on or before January 31 of the year of renewal, the reinstatement fee shall be $10. If the completed application for renewal of a registration required by this section is received after January 31 of the year of renewal, the amount of the reinstatement fee shall be increased at the rate of $25 per month for each additional month or fraction thereof. No registration required by this section shall be reinstated if it has been delinquent for one year. No registration required by this section shall be issued until all applicable reinstatement fees, if any, have been paid.