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2011 South Dakota Code
Title 40 ANIMALS AND LIVESTOCK
Chapter 15. Livestock Auction Agencies
- §40-15-1 Business constituting livestock auction agency--Exceptions.
- §40-15-1.1 Buying stations subject to chapter.
- §40-15-1.2 "Mobile market" defined.
- §40-15-1.3 "Livestock" defined.
- §40-15-2 License required for auction agency--Display at place of sales--Violation as petty offense.
- §40-15-3 Application for auction agency license--Contents.
- §40-15-4 Hearing on application for license--Notice to livestock associations of application.
- §40-15-5 Publication and public notice of application for license.
- §40-15-6 Hearing on application for license--Issuance on finding of conformity.
- §40-15-7 Factors considered in determining whether to issue license.
- §40-15-8 Annual fee for issuance or renewal of license.
- §40-15-9 Notice and hearing dispensed with on renewal of license.
- §40-15-10 Bond required to operate auction agency--Terms of bond--Approval--Amount--Violation as misdemeanor.
- §40-15-11 Cancellation of auction agency bond by surety--New bond before continuing business.
- §40-15-12 Action on auction agency bond.
- §40-15-13 Livestock handling and testing facilities required for auction agency license--Revocation or suspension if facilities inadequate or unsanitary.
- §40-15-13.1 Approved scales to be used.
- §40-15-13.2 Promulgation of rules--Scales--Fees.
- §40-15-14 Rules specifying facilities needed by veterinary inspector.
- §40-15-15 Separate pens for segregation of diseased animals--Marking of quarantine pens.
- §40-15-16 Auction agency services available without discrimination--Filing and posting of rate schedules--Rebates prohibited--Violation as petty offense.
- §40-15-17 Minimum inspection fees established by Animal Industry Board.
- §40-15-18 Inspection fees paid to Animal Industry Board.
- §40-15-19 Inspection service to be provided at auction agency--Veterinarian employed by board--Qualifications--Assistant veterinarian--Violation as petty offense.
- §40-15-20 Inspection of livestock by veterinarian--Compensation from fees collected.
- §40-15-21 Testing and treatment required before removal of animal from auction agency.
- §40-15-22 Veterinary inspection of premises and equipment--Supervision of cleaning of facilities and vehicles.
- §40-15-23 Inspection in manner prescribed by Animal Industry Board or federal government.
- §40-15-24 Veterinary inspector supervised by animal industry board--Discontinuance for failure to perform--Supervising veterinarians.
- §40-15-25 Auction agency not liable for negligence of inspector--Inspector not agent of agency.
- §40-15-26 Responsibility for inspection of livestock before shipment from auction agency--Certificate to comply with requirements at destination.
- §40-15-27 Records of livestock offered at auction agency--Vehicles making deliveries--Violation as petty offense.
- §40-15-28 Records open to inspection--Preservation--Copies furnished.
- §40-15-29 Revocation or suspension of license for failure to keep records.
- §40-15-30 Uniform accounting system for agencies.
- §40-15-31 Segregation and safeguarding of customers' funds by auction agency--Misuse of funds as felony.
- §40-15-31.1 Electronic auction--Regulation--Licensure.
- §40-15-31.2 Electronic auction--Delivery.
- §40-15-32 Revocation or suspension of license for violations--Effect of revocation or suspension.
- §40-15-32.1 Grounds for revocation, suspension, or refusal to renew license.
- §40-15-32.2 Board authorized to assume control of funds when agency's license revoked.
- §40-15-33 Appeal to circuit court from revocation or suspension of license.
- §40-15-34 Operation of auction agency without license as misdemeanor--Each day as separate offense.
- §40-15-35 Repealed.
- §40-15-35.1 Sanitary board allowed to apply for injunction.
- §40-15-36 Enforcement of chapter--Orders, rules, and regulations--Publication and posting.
- §40-15-37 Disposition of fees--Apportionment between disease emergency fund and inspectors fund.
- §40-15-38 Use of livestock disease emergency fund--Authorization by Governor required.
- §40-15-39 "Livestock fraud" defined--Evidence--Felony.
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