2017 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 47 LIVESTOCK AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS
Article 4 MARKS AND BRANDS
47-416a Livestock special investigators; law enforcement powers; training requirements.
47-416a. Livestock special investigators; law enforcement powers; training requirements. Each special investigator, appointed by the animal health commissioner, pursuant to K.S.A. 47-416, and amendments thereto, shall have the authority to make arrests, conduct searches and seizures and carry firearms while investigating violations of the provisions of article 4 of chapter 47 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, and while investigating livestock theft. The director as defined in K.S.A. 74-5602, and amendments thereto, is authorized to offer and carry out a special course of instruction for special investigators performing law enforcement duties under authority of this section. Such special investigators shall not carry firearms without having first successfully completed such special law enforcement training course.
History: L. 1984, ch. 196, § 1; L. 2012, ch. 140, § 14; July 1.
