It shall be unlawful for any weighman to misweigh or falsely report any weights or to otherwise fraudulently manipulate scales to produce a weight other than the true and actual weight of any livestock consigned to and sold at any stockyard or buying station.
Effective: July 12, 2012

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 261.280

  • Buying station: means a facility that is conducted, operated, or managed as a private livestock market that offers stockyard services. See Kentucky Statutes 261.200
  • Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, or other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species. See Kentucky Statutes 261.200
  • Stockyard: means a facility regulated by:
    (a) The United States Secretary of Agriculture under the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (42 Stat. See Kentucky Statutes 261.200

History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 28, sec. 7, effective July 12, 2012. — Amended
2006 Ky. Acts ch. 225, sec. 7, effective July 12, 2006. — Created 1954 Ky. Acts ch.
130, sec. 9, effective June 17, 1954.

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