Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 47-1001b

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

Upon the filing of such application, the commissioner shall conduct a hearing in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act. The commissioner shall serve notice and a copy of the application in accordance with the Kansas administrative procedure act upon the owners of all public livestock markets within a fifty-mile radius of the applicant’s proposed location and within this state. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act to the contrary, any holder of a market license who is operating a public livestock market may move such market to other premises in the same county without securing a new license or filing a new application. However, the licensee shall give the commissioner at least thirty days’ notice of the removal of the market to such other location which notice shall include a legal description of the real estate and its exact location and a complete description of the facilities to be used at such new location in connection with such public livestock market and the commissioner or board shall find that such facilities are adequate to permit the performance of the proposed market services.