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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 257 LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY DISEASE CONTROL
257.330 Permit required for auction or community sale of baby chicks or poults -- Application -- Fee -- Inspection -- Destruction of diseased chicks or poults.
Download pdfselling baby chicks or baby poults reared on their own premises, a permit shall be
secured from the Division of Animal Health of the Department of Agriculture, or
the state veterinarian. (2) Any person who desires to offer baby chicks or baby poults for sale at any auction or auctions, sale barn, or community sale, shall apply to the division or the state
veterinarian for a permit to hold the sale. A form shall be prescribed and furnished
by the division. This application shall be submitted at least three (3) days before the
sale to allow time for inspection of the chicks or poults offered, by a representative
of the division or the state veterinarian before any chicks or poults are sold. This
application shall be signed by the person who proposes to conduct the sale, together
with the person who owns the property in or on which the sale is to be conducted, if
the person who proposes to conduct the sale does not own the property. The
application shall designate the date of the proposed sale, the number and breed of
the chicks or poults to be offered for sale, and the person or firm by whom they
were produced, and shall be accompanied by a fee in the sum of one dollar ($1) per
hundred (100) chicks or poults to be offered for sale. The division or the state
veterinarian shall be authorized in their discretion to grant or to deny the permit
requested in the application, and if deemed necessary or advisable to require the
applicant to submit a certificate in a form as the division or the state veterinarian
may prescribe, certifying that the baby chicks or baby poults which may be offered
for sale are in healthy condition. (3) On inspection by the representative of the division or state veterinarian, if the chicks or poults offered for sale are found to be diseased, the representative may confiscate
all chicks or poults found to be diseased and may destroy the chicks and poults. Effective: July 15, 2002
History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 49, sec. 7, effective July 15, 2002. -- Created 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 103, secs. 1, 2, and 5.
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