Kansas Statutes 47-1001a. License required to operate market; application form; fee; bond
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 47-1001a
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Board: means any three members of the Kansas animal health board designated by the chairperson of the Kansas animal health board for each particular hearing. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
- Commissioner: means the animal health commissioner of the Kansas department of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Livestock: means and includes cattle, bison, swine, sheep, goats, horses, mules, domesticated deer, camelids, domestic poultry, domestic waterfowl, all creatures of the ratite family that are not indigenous to this state, including, but not limited to, ostriches, emus and rheas, and any other animal as deemed necessary by the commissioner established through rules and regulations. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
- Person: means and includes any individual, partnership, corporation or association. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
- Public livestock market: means any place, establishment or facility commonly known as a "livestock market" "livestock auction market" "sales ring" "stockyard" "community sale" as such term is used in article 10 of chapter 47 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, which includes any business conducted or 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 except that this term shall not apply to any livestock market where federal veterinary inspection is regularly maintained. See Kansas Statutes 47-1001
No person shall conduct or operate a public livestock market unless and until such person has a license therefor, upon which the current annual market license fee has been paid. Any person making application for an original market license shall do so to the commissioner in writing, verified by the applicant, in the form as prescribed by the commissioner showing the following:
(a) The name and address of the applicant, with a statement of the names and addresses of all persons having any financial interest in the business of the applicant and the amount of such interest.
(b) A statement of all assets and liabilities of the applicant.
(c) A legal description of the real estate and a complete description of the facilities proposed to be used in connection with such public livestock market.
(d) A detailed statement of the facts upon which the applicant relies showing the general confines of the trade area proposed to be served by such public livestock market, the benefits to be derived by the livestock industry and the services proposed to be rendered.
Such application shall be accompanied by an application fee in an amount set by the Kansas animal health board and adopted by rules and regulations of the commissioner of not more than $375, which shall not be refundable if the application is denied or withdrawn. Each applicant shall furnish a bond in the manner required by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 47-1002, and amendments thereto. The application fee established by this section on the day preceding the effective date of this act shall continue in effect until a different application fee is set as provided under this section.