2006 Kansas Code - 47-446

      47-446.   Feedlot brands; application; conditions. Feedlot brands may be lawfully applied to livestock which livestock are not branded with a registered brand of the owner and which are in the custody of, and upon the premises of, a feedlot operator licensed under the provisions of article 15 of chapter 47 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, subject to the following conditions, limitations and requirements: (1) such feedlot brand shall not be construed as evidence of ownership identification; (2) livestock which are branded with a feedlot brand shall be held by the licensed feedlot operator under quarantine upon said feed lot premises until (a) released by said feedlot operator for movement to slaughter or (b) released by the livestock commissioner, or his authorized representative, by issuance of a permit authorizing such livestock to be moved from the feedlot premises for grazing purposes; any such permit, if issued, shall be subject to the requirement that such livestock, before release from licensed feedlot premises, shall be branded with a registered brand of the owner of the livestock.

      History:   L. 1973, ch. 212, § 2; July 1.