Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes > Chapter 17 > LLAMA

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture or the commissioner's representative. See Minnesota Statutes 17A.03
• Department: means the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. See Minnesota Statutes 17A.03
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, horses intended for slaughter, mules, farmed Cervidae, as defined in section 35. See Minnesota Statutes 17A.03
• Livestock dealer: means any person, including a packing company, engaged in the business of buying or selling livestock on a regular basis for the person's own account or for the account of others. See Minnesota Statutes 17A.03
• livestock scale: means a scale equipped with stock racks and gates and adapted to weighing single or multiple heads of livestock standing on the scale platform, and "monorail scale" means a scale, also called an abattoir scale, a track scale, or a rail scale, the load receiving element of which is part of a monorail conveyor system and which is used primarily for the weighing of livestock carcasses. See Minnesota Statutes 17A.03
• Person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Public stockyard: means an assembly point operated as a public livestock market for livestock producers, feeders, market agencies and buyers; providing the services and facilities for loading and unloading, yarding and sale of all classes of livestock, for individuals or organizations granted the privilege of the market by the management of the public stockyards. See Minnesota Statutes 17A.03
• slaughtering houses: means places of business where livestock purchased or acquired is slaughtered. See Minnesota Statutes 17A.03
• state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44