2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 22-277. Licensing and supervision of commission sales stables. Branding and identification of animals. Bond required.
Sec. 22-277. Licensing and supervision of commission sales stables. Branding
and identification of animals. Bond required. (a) As used in this section, "livestock
animal" means any hooved animal raised for domestic or commercial use. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall supervise commission sales stables where livestock animals
are sold at public auctions. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of
selling livestock animals at such auctions or sales shall annually apply to said commissioner for a license upon a form to be prescribed by the commissioner. The fee for each
such license shall be one hundred fifty dollars, payable to said commissioner. Each such
license shall be issued for the period of one year from July first and may be revoked for
cause. If, in the judgment of the commissioner, any provision of this section has been
violated, the commissioner shall send notice by registered or certified mail to the licensee, who shall be given a hearing, and, if violation is proven, the license shall be
revoked. If a license to deal in livestock, issued to any person, firm or corporation by
another state, has been suspended or revoked by such state within five years next preceding the date of issuance or renewal of a license to such person, firm or corporation under
the provisions of this section, such suspension or revocation shall constitute just cause
for revocation under this section. All dairy animals to be sold at such auction shall be
segregated from beef animals prior to such sales. The sale of dairy animals shall precede
the sale of those assigned for slaughter. All bovines more than three hundred pounds in
weight, except dairy and breeding animals, that are delivered to a sale shall be branded
with the letter "S" in a conspicuous place by the operator of the sale or the operator's
representative. All dairy and breeding animals from within the state arriving at a sale
shall be from a herd that: (1) Is under state supervision for the control of brucellosis and
tuberculosis and that has been tested for brucellosis and tuberculosis less than fourteen
months before the sale, (2) has been tested for tuberculosis less than fourteen months
before the sale and is regularly tested under the brucellosis ring test program of the
Department of Agriculture or (3) is certified to be brucellosis-free under the program
established pursuant to section 22-299a. All dairy and breeding animals arriving at a
sale from outside the state shall comply with section 22-304 and be accompanied by a
health certificate issued by the livestock official of the state of their origin and by a
permit from the commissioner. All animals offered for dairy or breeding purposes over
six months of age shall be identified by an official ear tag, a tattoo or by registration
papers. All female dairy or breeding animals over six months of age shall have been
calfhood vaccinated against brucellosis. Animals consigned for slaughter shall be sold
only to owners or agents of slaughtering establishments and moved directly to such
slaughtering establishments for immediate slaughter. All stables and sales rings shall
be kept clean and shall be suitably disinfected prior to each sale. The provisions of this
section shall not apply to the sale of an individual herd at an auction conducted by the
owner thereof. Any person, or any officer or agent of any corporation, who violates any
provision of this section or who obstructs or attempts to obstruct the Commissioner of
Agriculture or the commissioner's deputy or assistants in the performance of their duty,
shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty
days or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 3324, 3368; 1951, S. 1806d; 1959, P.A. 637, S. 2; 1961, P.A. 67; 1971, P.A. 21; 872, S. 446, 448; P.A. 76-204, S. 1, 2; P.A. 80-114; P.A. 81-231, S. 5, 6; P.A. 84-55; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6, S. 48, 117; P.A. 99-110, S. 4; P.A. 00-26, S. 1; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(e), (f); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: 1959 act replaced commissioner of agriculture with commissioner of agriculture, conservation and natural resources; 1961 act replaced commissioner of agriculture, conservation and natural resources with commissioner of agriculture and natural resources; 1971 acts replaced commissioner of agriculture and natural resources with commissioner of agriculture and required that animals consigned for slaughter be sold solely to slaughtering establishments and moved directly to such establishments for immediate slaughter; P.A. 76-204 substituted "livestock" animals for "bovine" animals and defined the term and added Subsec. (b) re required scales and regulations re scales, recording of animals' weights, etc.; P.A. 80-114 added Subsecs. (c) and (d) re required bonds and regulations generally; P.A. 81-231 amended Subsec. (a) by making suspension or revocation within the previous five years by any state cause for revocation of a license under this section; P.A. 84-55 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provisions that bovines be branded, that dairy and breeding animals be from state supervised herds or have health certificate from state of origin and permit from commissioner, that they have identification and that female dairy and breeding animals be vaccinated against brucellosis; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6 amended Subsec. (a) to increase the license fee from seventy-five to one hundred fifty dollars and the fine from not more than one hundred to not more than two hundred dollars; P.A. 99-110 deleted former Subsec. (b) which governed scales used in commission livestock sales and deleted former Subsec. (d) which required adoption of regulations to implement this section, relettering former Subsec. (c) accordingly; P.A. 00-26 made a technical change in Subsec. (b); June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner and Department of Agriculture with Commissioner and Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
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