261.200 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture;
(2) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture;
(3) "Board" means the State Board of Agriculture;
(4) "Stockyard" means a facility regulated by the United States Secretary of Agriculture
under the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (42 Stat. 159), as amended, and
regulations promulgated under these statutes by the Secretary of Agriculture. A
stockyard includes any place, establishment, or facility commonly known as a
stockyard or buying station, which is conducted, operated, or managed for profit or
nonprofit as a public market for livestock producers, feeders, market agencies, and
buyers, consisting of pens or other enclosures and their appurtenances, in which
livestock are received, held, or kept for sale or shipment in commerce;
(5) "Owner or operator" means persons responsible for the operation of each individual
stockyard;
(6) "Market agency" means any person engaged in the business of buying or selling in
commerce livestock, either on his own account or as the employee or agent of the
vendor or purchaser, or who furnishes stockyard or buying station services;
(7) "Livestock dealer" means any person, not a market agency, engaged in the business
of buying or selling livestock in commerce, either on his own account or as the
employee or agent of the vendor or purchaser;
(8) "Farmer" means a person who buys or sells livestock in connection with the
operation of a business of breeding, growing, and feeding livestock as a part of an
established farming enterprise and who does not follow a definite pattern in
disposing of livestock; and
(9) "Livestock" means cattle, sheep, swine, or goats of all kinds and species.
Effective: July 12, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 225, sec. 2, effective July 12, 2006. -- Created
1954 Ky. Acts ch. 130, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1954.
Legislative Research Commission Note. Pursuant to Acts 1962, ch. 139, sec. 2, the
reviser has substituted "department of agriculture" for "department of agriculture,
labor and statistics" in this chapter.
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