2025 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
DIVISION 10 - CATTLE PROTECTION
CHAPTER 8 - Sale and Gift of Cattle, Their Carcasses and Hides
ARTICLE 2 - Public Salesyards
Section 21744.

Universal Citation:
CA Food & Agri Code § 21744 (2025)
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21744. Cattle shall not be released from a public stockyard, public salesyard, public cattle sales market, or any other public consignment sale or private auction sale unless they are accompanied by a brand inspection certificate or by a press-numbered bill of sale or a press-numbered certificate of sale that is issued and signed by a representative of the salesyard, as agents for the consignor.

(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 651, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1998.)

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