Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:665

  • Board: means the Louisiana Board of Animal Health augmented by the persons named in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:663
  • Livestock: means cattle, buffalo, bison, oxen, and other bovine; horses, mules, donkeys, and other equine; sheep; goats; swine; domestic rabbits; fish, turtles, and other animals identified with aquaculture that are located in artificial reservoirs or enclosures that are both on privately owned property and constructed so as to prevent, at all times, the ingress and egress of fish life from public waters; imported exotic deer and antelope, elk, farm-raised white-tailed deer, farm-raised ratites, and other farm-raised exotic animals; chickens, turkeys, and other poultry; and animals placed under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of agriculture and forestry and any hybrid, mixture, or mutation of any such animal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:663
  • Livestock market: means any place, establishment or facility commonly known as a "buying station" "livestock market" "livestock auction market" "sales ring" "stockyard" or the like, operated for compensation or profit as a 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. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:663

            A. The Louisiana Board of Animal Health shall administer the provisions of this Part.

            B. The Louisiana Board of Animal Health shall determine the day or days on which each livestock market chartered under the provisions of this Part may conduct sales.

            C. Each livestock market in operation on April 1, 2019, shall retain the sale day or contiguous day on which the livestock market was conducting sales prior to April 1, 2019.

            Added by Acts 1966, No. 142, §1. Amended by Acts 1982, No. 443, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Acts 2008, No. 920, §1, eff. July 14, 2008; Acts 2020, No. 306, §1, eff. June 12, 2020.