2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 3:663 — Definitions
§663. Definitions
The following words and phrases as used in this Part, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them in this Section.
(1) "Board" means the Louisiana State Livestock Sanitary Board augmented by the persons named in R.S. 3:665.
(2) "Livestock" means cattle, calves, horses, mules, swine, sheep and goats.
(3) "Public livestock market" means any place, establishment or facility commonly known as a "livestock market," "livestock auction market," "sales ring," "stockyard," or the like, operated for compensation or profit as a public market for livestock, consisting of pens, or other enclosures, and their appurtenances, in which livestock are received, held, sold, or kept for sale or shipment.
(4) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture.
(5) "Charter" means the charter for public livestock market operation authorized to be issued under this Part.
Added by Acts 1966, No. 142, §1.
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