Title 15, AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS

Sec. 2. Before issuing a feeder pig dealer a license under this chapter, the board shall inspect and approve the concentration point or points used by the feeder pig dealer. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-12-5.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 3. The board may do the following: (1) Exempt from this chapter a farmer that moves feeder pigs into Indiana for the farmer's feeding program. (2) Require a farmer described in subdivision (1) to obtain a special permit from the board for each shipment of feeder pigs moved i…

Sec. 4. The board shall establish standards for construction and maintenance of concentration points to assure adequate facilities for washing and disinfecting swine pens and maintaining sanitary conditions. Concentration points must meet the standards before approval. [Pre-2008 …

Sec. 5. Pigs sold through: (1) stockyards; (2) livestock auction markets; or (3) places of business where pigs are assembled for resale, other than pigs sold for immediate slaughter; must be identified using an identification approved by the board before being moved from the poin…

Sec. 6. Except as provided in section 3 of this chapter, a person may not import, move, or introduce into Indiana any feeder pigs unless the feeder pigs are: (1) identified using an identification approved by the board; (2) accompanied by a permit issued by the board; and (3) acc…

Sec. 7. All pigs must be vaccinated, treated, or inspected before sale or being offered for sale, as required by the board. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-12-8.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.

Sec. 8. Feeder pigs that are imported, moved, or introduced into Indiana in violation of this chapter shall be immediately placed under quarantine and unloaded at a facility designated by the board. The truck or conveyance used to transport the quarantined feeder pigs must be imp…

Sec. 1. (a) Beginning July 1, 2017, the department may: (1) implement and promote a program to supply to the agriculture industry marketing assistance that provides unbiased price and sales information to assist in the marketing and distribution of farm commodities; and (2) imple…

Sec. 2. The department may negotiate and enter into cooperative agreements with the United States Department of Agriculture or any other appropriate federal agency to implement this chapter. As added by P.L.133-2015, SEC.2; P.L.202-2015, SEC.2.

Sec. 1. This chapter does not apply to the following: (1) The purchase of livestock by an individual for the individual's own use other than resale on the livestock market. (2) The distribution of livestock in connection with programs dedicated to improvement of breeding practice…

Sec. 10. (a) Scales used by a dealer licensed under this chapter are subject to inspection and testing by a scale inspector who may be any weights and measures inspector appointed by the Indiana department of health. Scales are subject to the applicable requirements of the code o…

Sec. 11. (a) A person who knowingly or intentionally allows a scale to be used in a business transaction involving the purchase, sale, or exchange of livestock: (1) after the scale has been condemned; and (2) before it has been repaired to the satisfaction of the scale inspector;…

Sec. 2. Unless specifically exempted in this chapter, a person must obtain a license under this chapter to act as a dealer in livestock in Indiana. A person may not deal in livestock after the expiration, suspension, or revocation of the person's license. [Pre-2008 Recodification…

Sec. 3. The board shall classify dealers required to be licensed under this chapter based on the enterprise in which each dealer is engaged. The classifications must be consistent with the definitions set forth in this article and must be based on the facts in the dealer's licens…

Sec. 4. (a) Licenses are issued under the following classifications: (1) A market facility dealer license issued to livestock auction markets, stockyards, packers, or concentration points. (2) An individual dealer license issued to individual dealers and market agencies not opera…

Sec. 5. (a) Subject to subsection (b), a livestock dealer may designate agents subject to the liabilities that ordinarily attach under a contract of agency. An agent may deal in livestock for the principal under the principal's livestock dealer license. An agent dealing in livest…

Sec. 6. (a) Except as provided under sections 7 and 8 of this chapter, before operating a livestock dealer business, a person must execute and maintain a bond or bond equivalent that meets the requirements of this section. (b) The form of the bond or bond equivalent shall be pres…

Sec. 7. If a licensee under this chapter has a valid bond or bond equivalent on file with the United States Department of Agriculture, Grain Inspection and Packers and Stockyards Administration, and the bond or bond equivalent is an adequate amount and conditioned upon terms that…

Sec. 8. A packer, other than a packer operating stockyards in Indiana, is not required to furnish security under section 6 of this chapter if a bond or bond equivalent is not required of the packers under the federal Packers and Stock Yards Act of 1921 (7 U.S.C. 181 through 7 U.S…

Sec. 9. A dealer required to be licensed under this chapter shall keep records, accounts, and memoranda fully and correctly disclosing all purchases, sales, or transfers involving completed livestock transactions in connection with the dealer's business. The records concerning th…

Sec. 1. The definitions in this chapter apply to this chapter, IC 15-16-2, IC 15-16-2.5, IC 15-16-2.7, IC 15-16-3, IC 15-16-3.3, and IC 15-16-3.5. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 10. "Board" refers to the Indiana fertilizer advisory board established by IC 15-16-2-25. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 11. "Brand" means a term, design, or trademark used in connection with at least one (1) grade of commercial fertilizer or manure based fertilizer. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 12. "Bulk fertilizer" means a commercial fertilizer distributed in nonpackaged form. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 13. "Certified applicator" means an individual who has been issued a certificate or licensing credential under IC 15-16-2.5 or IC 15-16-3 to use fertilizer material. The term includes commercial applicators and private applicators. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 14. "Commercial applicator license" means the licensing credential issued annually to a certified applicator who: (1) uses; or (2) supervises the use of; fertilizer material for purposes of producing an agricultural crop on the property of another person for hire. As added b…

Sec. 15. "Commercial fertilizer" means mixed fertilizer or fertilizer materials. The term does not include nonprocessed manure, marl, lime, wood ashes, biosolids, industrial waste products, pollutant-bearing water, or plaster. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 16. "Confined feeding operation" and "CFO" mean any of the following: (1) Any operation that confine feeds at least: (A) three hundred (300) cattle; (B) six hundred (600) swine or sheep; (C) thirty thousand (30,000) fowl; or (D) five hundred (500) horses. (2) An animal feedi…

Sec. 17. "Continuing certification hour" and "CCH" mean one (1) hour of fertilizer material related instruction or training for a certified applicator that has been evaluated and approved by the state chemist. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 18. "Custom blend" means a commercial fertilizer blended: (1) according to specifications provided to a blender in a soil test nutrient recommendation; or (2) to meet specific requests of a consumer, who is the end user, before blending. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.…

Sec. 19. "Discharge" means a release of fluid or dry bulk fertilizer into either a secondary containment or operational containment area at a storage facility. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 2. "Agricultural crop" means any plant or part of a plant, produced primarily for sale, consumption, propagation, or other use by humans or animals. The term does not include turf, trees, or ornamental plants. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 20. "Distribute" means to: (1) offer for sale; (2) sell; (3) exchange; (4) barter; (5) supply; or (6) offer to supply; fertilizer material. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 21. "Distributor" means a person that: (1) offers for sale; (2) sells; (3) barters; or (4) supplies; commercial fertilizers or manure based fertilizers. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 22. "Drainage inlet" means any surficial opening to an underground agricultural tile drainage system that drains surface waters. The term includes water and sediment control basins. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 23. "Dry bulk fertilizer" means nonfluid commercial fertilizer in an undivided quantity exceeding two hundred (200) pounds. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 24. "Elephant ring" means a storage container with an open top serving as a secondary containment vessel into which a smaller primary storage container is placed. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 25. "Facility" means all land, buildings, equipment, structures, and other stationary items that are located on a single site or on contiguous sites and that are owned or operated by the same person or by any person that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control…

Sec. 26. "Fertilizer application plan" means a written annual or multi-year plan for nutrient application at agronomic rates for producing an agricultural crop. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 27. "Fertilizer business license" means the licensing credential issued annually to a person that is engaged in distributing or using fertilizer material on the property of another person for hire. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 28. (a) "Fertilizer material" means any substance containing nitrogen, phosphate, potash, or any recognized plant nutrient that: (1) is used for the plant nutrient content; and (2) has nutrient value in promoting plant growth. The term includes unmanipulated manure. (b) The …

Sec. 29. "Field operations" means the application of dry bulk fertilizer or fluid bulk fertilizer to soil or plants in the course of normal agricultural or horticultural practice. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 3. "Agronomic rate" means a rate of application of fertilizer material to the land based on the following: (1) The nutrient content of the fertilizer material to be applied. (2) The fertility level of the soil. (3) The nutrient needs of the current or planned crops. (4) The …

Sec. 30. "Filter strip" means a vegetative area between a surface water body and an agricultural production field with a minimum width of fifty (50) feet and designed and maintained to intercept surface water runoff. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 31. "Floodway" has the meaning set forth under IC 14-8-2-102. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.

Sec. 32. "Fluid bulk fertilizer" means fluid fertilizer in an undivided quantity exceeding fifty-five (55) gallons. As added by P.L.98-2026, SEC.2.