No person, firm, or corporation shall operate a public hatchery, and no person, dealer, jobber, peddler, or huckster in baby chicks, started chicks, turkey poults, other newly hatched domestic poultry, and hatching eggs shall operate as a public hatchery within this state without obtaining an annual permit from the Division of Animal Health to so operate, and paying a permit fee of ten dollars ($10) per annum. This is not intended to require a permit of hatcheries, chick dealers, chick salesmen, or corporations selling less than one thousand (1,000) chicks per year, or egg dealers selling less than thirty-five hundred (3,500) eggs per year.
Effective: July 15, 2002

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 257.420

  • Animal: includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Poultry: means chickens, ducks, turkeys, or other domestic fowl being raised or kept on any premises in the Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 257.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 49, sec. 14, effective July 15, 2002. — Created
1948 Ky. Acts ch. 165, sec. 6.