Title 25 — ANIMALS

25-1719. Short title. This act shall be known and cited as the "Idaho Public Livestock Market Development Act."

25-1720. Statement of purpose. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state of Idaho, and the purpose of this act, to encourage, stimulate and stabilize the agricultural economy of the state in general, and the livestock economy in particular, by encouraging the constructi…

25-1721. Definitions of terms. The following words and phrases as used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section. (a) "Persons" shall include any individual, firm, association, partnership or corporat…

25-1722. Exemptions. This act shall not be construed to include as a public livestock market: (a) Any place or operation where future farmers or 4-H groups, or private fairs conduct sales of livestock. (b) Any place or operation conducted for a dispersal sale of the livestock of …

25-1723. Administration of act. The director is hereby vested with power and authority, and it is hereby made his duty, to: (a) Administer the provisions of this act in respect to the issuances, suspensions and revocations of market charters. (b) Prescribe by general order, or ot…

25-1724. Market charter and application — Fees, charter and hearing. No person shall conduct or operate a public livestock market unless and until he has a market charter therefor, upon which the current annual market charter fee has been paid. Any person making application for s…

25-1725. Notice of hearing on application. Upon the filing of such application, the director shall fix a reasonable time for the hearing thereon in the city itself, or the nearest city, where the public livestock market is proposed to be located. The director forthwith shall caus…

25-1726. Hearing on application. A hearing shall be conducted by the director. If after a hearing upon such application at which interested persons may formally appear in support or opposition thereto, the director finds from the evidence presented that such public livestock mark…

25-1728. Market charter fee — Public livestock market fund — Appropriation — Payment of claims. (1) Every livestock market operator shall pay annually, on or before May 1, a market charter fee established by rules of the director but not in excess of two hundred dollars ($200) to…

25-1729. Transfers of market charters — Hearing and charter fees. Each market charter is personal to the holder and the facilities covered thereby, and transferable only upon application in the same form and manner as new applications for such market charters. A change in the mem…

25-1730. Bond of applicant. No market charter or renewal of market charter shall be issued until the applicant shall have executed a surety bond as required under the provisions of that certain act of the congress of the United States known as the Packers and Stockyards Act, as a…

25-1731. Records of charter holder. Every market charter holder under this act shall keep an accurate record of all transactions conducted in the ordinary course of his business. Such records shall be available for the examination of the director, or his duly authorized represent…

25-1732. Investigation of actions of market charter holders — Hearings on complaints — Witnesses — Suspension or revocation of market charters — Violation of Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 — Injunction — Hearing — Audit. The director may, upon his own motion, whenever he has …

25-1733. Appeals from decisions of director. The director shall keep a complete transcript of all proceedings and evidence presented in any hearing before him. The applicant for a market charter, or any protestant formally appearing in the hearing before the director for such mar…

25-1734. Penalties. Any person who shall violate any provision or requirement of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding…

25-1735. Licensed weighmaster. No market charter or renewal charter to establish or operate any public livestock market within the state of Idaho shall be issued nor shall any duly licensed public livestock market within this state continue to operate unless the livestock handled…

25-1736. Brand inspection. Every livestock market operator engaged in the operation of a public livestock market within the state of Idaho shall cause brand inspection to be made in such manner as the state brand board shall prescribe, of all livestock assembled at such public li…

25-1737. Sanitation. Every public livestock market shall be maintained in a sanitary condition conforming to standards established by rules of the director of the department of agriculture.