Title 50

NRS 571.110 Penalty. Any person, corporation, common carrier, agent or employee of any corporation violating or assisting in violating any of the provisions of NRS 571.045 to 571.100, inclusive, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. (Added to NRS by 1961, 509) CONTROL AND ERADICATION…

NRS 571.120 Duties of Department; Director to cooperate with Director of Department of Wildlife. 1. The Department shall do all things necessary for the control and eradication of infectious, contagious or parasitic diseases of animals. 2. The Director shall cooperate with the Di…

NRS 571.130 Adoption of rules and regulations of federal Secretary of Agriculture relating to control and suppression of disease in animals. The State Quarantine Officer may adopt rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States relating to the control a…

NRS 571.135 Regulations for processing of food waste to be fed to livestock, fish or other animals. 1. The State Quarantine Officer, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture, may adopt such regulations requiring the processing of food waste before it is fed to livestoc…

NRS 571.140 Inspection, testing, treatment, quarantine and condemnation of animals. The State Quarantine Officer, or the State Quarantine Officer’s representatives or agents, may inspect, test, treat, quarantine and condemn animals affected with any infectious, contagious or para…

NRS 571.150 Inspection, testing or quarantine of animal infected with or exposed to disease. The State Quarantine Officer may inspect, test or quarantine any animal in the State infected with, suspected of being or which have been exposed to an infectious, contagious or parasitic…

NRS 571.160 Notice to State Quarantine Officer of animal infected with disease; confidentiality of notice. If any animal becomes infected with any infectious, contagious or parasitic disease as defined by rules and regulations adopted by the State Quarantine Officer, the owner or…

NRS 571.170 Regulations for quarantine of diseased animals; expense of treatment, feeding, care and testing. 1. If an animal is found diseased, the State Quarantine Officer may make regulations for its quarantine at once, and the State Quarantine Officer may define the place and …

NRS 571.180 Removal of quarantined or infected animal or animal product prohibited without permit. Quarantined animals, and any animals or animal products which have been, or are suspected to have been, infected with or exposed to infectious, contagious or parasitic diseases, mus…

NRS 571.190 Destruction of animal infected with or exposed to disease: Determination by State Quarantine Officer; owner’s compensation. 1. The State Quarantine Officer may order and have destroyed any animal infected with or exposed to any infectious, contagious or parasitic dise…

NRS 571.200 Disposal of carcass of diseased animal. 1. The owner or agent in charge of any animal that has died or has been killed as a result of any infectious, contagious or parasitic disease shall immediately bury the carcass thereof at least 3 feet underground or cause the ca…

NRS 571.210 Bringing animals from another state: Compliance with regulations; notice; health certificate; prohibited importation of certain animals; violation of section. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person, or the person’s agent or employee may bring into t…

NRS 571.220 Quarantine, cleaning and disinfection of places where animals handled; payment of expenses. 1. The State Quarantine Officer shall quarantine any corrals, pens, slaughterhouses, buildings, places, cars, trucks or vehicles where any animal may have been handled, and com…

NRS 571.230 Right of entry of inspectors. Inspectors may at all times enter any premises, farms, fields, corrals, pens, slaughterhouses, buildings, places, cars, trucks or vehicles where any animal is quartered for the purpose of examining such places, vehicles or animals to dete…

NRS 571.240 Inspection of animal about to be removed from State. 1. Inspectors may inspect any animal about to be shipped, driven, transported or otherwise removed from the State. 2. Consignors, possessors or persons in charge of such an animal shall, upon demand, fully establish…

NRS 571.250 Penalties; use of money collected. 1. Any person violating the provisions of NRS 571.120 to 571.240, inclusive, or failing, refusing or neglecting to perform or observe any conditions, orders, rules or regulations prescribed by the State Quarantine Officer in accordan…

NRS 573.010 Definitions. As used in this chapter: 1. “Annual sale of livestock” means any sale of livestock: (a) To which any member of the public may consign livestock for sale or exchange through public bidding at the sale of the livestock; and (b) Which is conducted for not mo…

NRS 573.015 Declaration of policy. Because of the paramount importance of livestock raising to the economy of the State of Nevada and the essential function performed by public auction sales in the livestock industry, it is declared to be an essential part of the public policy of…

NRS 573.020 Holding of public livestock auction without license prohibited; procedure for application for license. 1. A person shall not hold, operate, conduct or carry on a public livestock auction in this state without first securing a license therefor from the Department. 2. T…

NRS 573.025 Limited license to conduct annual sale of livestock. 1. In lieu of securing a license to hold, operate, conduct or carry on a public livestock auction pursuant to NRS 573.020, a person who wishes to conduct an annual sale of livestock may submit an application to the …

NRS 573.030 Bond required for issuance of license or limited license; deposit in lieu of bond. Before a license is issued by the Department to an operator of a public livestock auction or a limited license is issued by the Department to conduct an annual sale of livestock, the ap…

NRS 573.033 Details and amount of bond; liability of surety. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 573.025, if an applicant delivers a surety bond to the Director pursuant to the provisions of NRS 573.025 or subsection 1 of NRS 573.030, the surety bond must be: (a) In the amount…

NRS 573.037 Deposit in lieu of bond: Amount; action for recovery against deposit; retention by Department. 1. As authorized by NRS 573.025 or subsection 2 of NRS 573.030, in lieu of filing the bond described in NRS 573.033, the applicant may deliver to the Director the receipt of…

NRS 573.040 Fee for license or limited license. The State Board of Agriculture shall establish by regulation the fee for: 1. A license to operate a public livestock auction. 2. A limited license to conduct an annual sale of livestock. [Part 4:78:1947; 1943 NCL § 3825.04]—(NRS A 1…

NRS 573.050 Issuance of license. Upon receipt of an application for a license to operate a public livestock auction under this chapter, accompanied by the required bond and license fee, the Department shall examine the application, and if it finds the application to be in proper …

NRS 573.060 Separate license required for each establishment or premises. A separate license shall be required for each establishment or premises where a public livestock auction is operated or conducted. [Part 5:78:1947; 1943 NCL § 3825.05]

NRS 573.070 Form of license. A license to operate a public livestock auction must be in such form as the Department may prescribe, and set forth: 1. The name and address of the operator of the public livestock auction. 2. The location of the establishment or premises licensed. 3.…

NRS 573.080 Renewal of license. A license to operate a public livestock auction must be renewed annually upon like application and procedure as in the case of an original license to operate a public livestock auction. An application for the renewal of the license must be accompan…

NRS 573.090 Display of license. The original license or a certified copy thereof shall be displayed conspicuously by the licensee in the sale ring or in some other like prominent place in the licensed establishment or premises. [Part 5:78:1947; 1943 NCL § 3825.05]

NRS 573.100 Denial, suspension or revocation of license; notice and hearing. 1. The Department may refuse to grant or to renew a license or may suspend or revoke a license if, after notice and a hearing, the Department finds: (a) That the licensee has violated any provision of th…

NRS 573.103 Audits of accounts; filing copies of audits. Every operator of a public livestock auction whose accounts are audited under the provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 7 U.S.C. § 204, as amended, shall file a copy of each such audit with the Director. (Added to N…

NRS 573.104 Custodial accounts for consignors’ proceeds; annual audits. 1. Each licensee shall deposit the gross proceeds received by him or her from the sale of livestock handled on a commission or agency basis in a separate account established and maintained by the licensee in …

NRS 573.105 Line of credit: Duty to notify Department of change in amount or replacement; suspension of license for failure to maintain. An operator of a public livestock auction shall notify the Department within 30 days after any change in the amount of the line of credit shown…

NRS 573.106 Payment of net proceeds of sales to consignors. Within 24 hours after a sale of livestock by an operator of a public livestock auction, the operator of the public livestock auction shall pay to the consignor of such livestock the net proceeds of the sale due such cons…

NRS 573.107 Actions by consignor creditor or Director on bond. 1. A consignor creditor claiming to be injured by the fraud of a licensee may bring an action upon the bond against the principal and the surety in any court of competent jurisdiction to recover the damages caused by …

NRS 573.108 Duties of Director when licensee fails to pay consignor creditor; settlement or compromise on bond; action by Director; subpoenas. 1. In case of failure by a licensee to pay the amount due a consignor creditor whose livestock was handled or sold through or at the lice…

NRS 573.109 District court’s power to compel attendance of witnesses and production of books and papers; orders. 1. The district court in and for the county in which any investigation is conducted by the Director pursuant to the provisions of subsections 7 and 8 of NRS 573.108 ma…

NRS 573.110 Records to be maintained by licensee: Contents; location; inspection; retention. 1. Each operator of a public livestock auction shall keep the following records for each lot of livestock consigned to or sold or exchanged through the public livestock auction: (a) The n…

NRS 573.120 Records to be maintained by person buying or receiving livestock for slaughter on consignment or for commission or fee: Contents; inspection; retention. 1. Any person buying, or receiving on a consignment, commission or fee basis, any livestock for slaughter at a slau…

NRS 573.125 Issuance of receipts to purchasers. Each operator of a livestock auction or person who conducts an annual sale of livestock shall issue to each purchaser of livestock a receipt on a form approved by the Department, and the receipt must contain: 1. The name and address…

NRS 573.130 Regulation of sales of livestock under quarantine or infected or exposed to contagious, infectious or parasitic livestock disease; testing, treating and examination of livestock. 1. Livestock that is under quarantine because of any contagious, infectious or communicab…

NRS 573.140 Cleaning and maintenance of premises; facilities for feed and water. 1. The yards, pens and premises where livestock is held or handled must be cleaned and maintained for the purpose of preventing infectious, contagious or parasitic livestock diseases. 2. If livestock…

NRS 573.150 Inspection and testing of scales. If any public livestock auction shall sell livestock by weight, the scales upon which such livestock is weighed shall be regularly inspected and tested. [Part 8:78:1947; A 1949, 550; 1943 NCL § 3825.08]

NRS 573.160 Inspection of premises and records by Department. To carry out the provisions of this chapter and to conduct inspections pursuant thereto, the Department or any authorized representative thereof may enter the establishment or premises where any public livestock auctio…

NRS 573.165 Approved space and facilities to be provided for brand inspection. Public livestock auction facilities must include space and facilities approved by the Director for brand inspectors to carry out their duties in a safe and expeditious manner. (Added to NRS by 1961, 51…

NRS 573.170 Change of sale days: Procedure; special sales. 1. The operator of a public livestock auction may apply to the Department for a change of the weekly or monthly sales day or days specified in the operator’s license. The application is subject to a hearing and approval b…