Title 25 — ANIMALS

25-1141. Requirements for branding irons. Brands shall be made by hot iron or freeze iron and shall be done in such manner to be clear and recognizable, and legible so as to enable ready identification. The major character or characters on the branding iron when applied to cattle…

25-1142. Sheep owners to use brands — Use of earmarks — Use of nose brands and tattoo brands — Unrecorded brands. Every sheep owner may use one (1), and only one (1), brand for sheep, which brand may be recorded as herein provided. Each such sheep owner, in addition to his brand …

25-1143. Brands to be recorded. All brands shall be recorded with the state brand inspector. Upon recording pursuant to this section, a recorded brand shall be prima facie evidence of ownership of livestock, and that such owner is entitled to possession of said livestock. Proof o…

25-1144. Manner of recording brands. Every stock grower whose brands are not recorded, desiring to use any brand on any livestock shall make and file an application setting forth a facsimile and description of the brand that he desires to use, which application shall state the po…

25-1145. Renewal of brands. (1) On July 1, 2011, and at the end of each recording period of an original application pursuant to section 25-1144, Idaho Code, and at the end of each successive period thereafter on the first day of July, the recording of every brand in the office of…

25-1146. Sales and transfers of brands. Any brand recorded in accordance with the requirements of this chapter shall be the property of the stock grower in whose name the same shall be recorded and shall be subject to sale, assignment, transfer, devise and descent, the same as pe…

25-1147. Conflicting brands. In deciding as to conflicts of brands, the state brand inspector shall reject any brand being the same as one previously recorded in the same place on any animal; it shall also reject all brands known as solid brands and the window sash brand. A varia…

25-1148. Brand book. It shall be the duty of the state brand inspector from time to time as it may be necessary, but at least every two (2) years, to cause to be published in book form a list of all brands on record at the time of publication. In the years when the brand book is …

25-1149. Disposition of recording fees. All fees received for the recording and renewal of brands under the provisions of chapter 11, title 25, Idaho Code, shall be credited to the brand recording account, which the state controller is authorized and directed to establish in the …

25-1150. Brand recordings open to public — Evidence. The brand recordings kept by the state brand inspector shall be open to the inspection of the public and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts recited therein in any of the courts of this state.

25-1151. Deceptive and infringing brands — Prevention of use. The state brand board shall have the right to adopt such rules and regulations as it may prescribe to prevent the use of deceptively similar brands in the state of Idaho and to prevent the use of infringing brands, and…

25-1160. Brand inspection fees. (1) The maximum fee that shall be charged by the state brand inspector and his deputies for brand inspection shall be: (a) One dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) for each head of cattle; (b) Ten dollars ($10.00) for each head of horses, mules, and asse…

25-1161. Fees — State brand account. All fees of every kind collected by the office of the state brand inspector or under any rules or regulations made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited in a separate dedicated account in the state treasury known as the…

25-1170. Reciprocity. Any transportation of livestock in this state which originates in another state, and which complies with the brand inspection laws of such state requisite to such transportation, shall be deemed for all purposes to be in compliance with the state brand inspe…

25-1171. Impoundment of vehicles used in transporting stolen livestock. The use of any vehicle for the transportation of any stolen livestock or the products thereof, shall be unlawful and such vehicle shall be forfeited to and confiscated by the state. Any such vehicle so used i…

25-1172. Impoundment of livestock if no satisfactory evidence of ownership. Livestock which shall be found by any brand inspector, deputy brand inspector or peace officer of the state in the possession of any person who shall be unable to furnish to such inspector or peace office…

25-1173. Unclaimed livestock proceeds account. There is hereby created in the state treasury an account to be known as the unclaimed livestock proceeds account which shall consist of all money directed by law to be placed therein. The account is appropriated for paying and satisf…

25-1174. Hearing for claims to livestock proceeds account. Any person claiming to be the owner of any livestock sold under the provisions of section 25-1172, Idaho Code, may claim the sale proceeds placed in the unclaimed livestock proceeds account, and the state brand inspector …

25-1180. Mutilating and counterfeiting brands a misdemeanor. It shall be unlawful for any stock grower or other person in this state to change, conceal, deface, disfigure, or obliterate any brand or mark previously branded, impressed or marked on any animal or head of livestock, …

25-1181. Penalties. (1) Any person who shall present false or fraudulent information to obtain a brand inspection certificate shall be guilty of a felony. (2) Any person who wilfully forges any brand inspection certificate or written permit, or alters the same in any manner, with…

25-1182. Issuance of citations and arrest of violators. The state brand inspector, all deputy brand inspectors and all peace officers authorized by the laws of the state of Idaho to enforce brand inspection laws, are authorized and it is hereby made their duty to arrest with or w…

25-1301. Penalty for driving livestock from range — Evidence warranting conviction. Any person, not the owner or entitled to the possession, who knowingly and willfully drives, rides, or leads, or assists to drive, ride or lead or transport by motor vehicle any head of livestock …

25-1302. Liability to civil action — Attachment of defendant’s livestock. Any person who, without the owner’s consent, drives, rides, or leads or assists in driving, riding or leading any head of livestock, the property of another, away from its usual or accustomed range is liabl…

25-1303. Prevention of trespass of livestock — Criminal and civil liability. Any person owning or having charge of any herd or drove of livestock, who drives or moves the same into or through any county in this state, in which the owner thereof is not a resident or landowner, and…

25-1305. Penalty for violations. Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.

25-1601. Record of slaughtered cattle — Penalty for violation. Any persons engaged in the business of slaughtering cattle, must keep at their place of business a book in which they must enter daily the number and class of cattle slaughtered, the name of the person or persons from…

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.

25-1901. Altering marks and brands. Every person who marks or brands, alters, conceals, disfigures, obliterates, or defaces the mark or brand of any horse, mare, colt, jack, jennet, mule, bull, ox, steer, cow, calf, sheep, goat, hog, shoat or pig belonging to another, with intent…

25-1903. Use or possession of running iron. Any person who uses, or has, or keeps in his possession, any running branding iron, tool, or instrument used by him for running a brand on any livestock, or who changes or disfigures any brand with such instrument, is guilty of grand la…

25-1905. Removal of hides from carcasses. Any person other than the owner, his servant or agent who skins or removes from the carcass, the skin, hide, or pelt of any neat cattle or sheep found dead or perished, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

25-1906. Slaughtering unbranded cattle. Any person who slaughters any head of neat cattle, before the same is distinctly marked or branded, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

25-1907. Grazing sheep on cattle range. Any person owning or having charge of sheep, who herds, grazes, or pastures the same, or permits or suffers the same to be herded, grazed or pastured, on any cattle range previously occupied by cattle, or upon range usually occupied by any …

25-1908. Grazing stock on improved land. Any owner or other person in charge of any herd or drove of livestock, who wilfully or negligently injures any resident of the state by driving or moving such herd or drove from any public highway, and herding or grazing the same on land o…