2016 Mississippi Code
Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals
Chapter 29 - Livestock Brands, Theft or Loss of Livestock and Protective Associations
Article 3 - Registration and Ownership of Livestock Brands
§ 69-29-101. Purpose of article
The purpose of this article is to provide a place for registration of brands or marks of cattle and other livestock in an appropriate bureau, which may be called the Mississippi Agricultural and Livestock Theft Bureau, in the Department of Agriculture and Commerce under the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce of the State of Mississippi, in order to avoid confusion as to brands or marks of cattle and other livestock, and to protect the owners against theft, and to aid the agricultural and livestock theft investigators in the Department of Agriculture and Commerce in tracing such cattle and other livestock when stolen, apprehending such thieves and returning the cattle and other livestock to the owner thereof.
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