Kansas Statutes
Article 4 - Marks And Brands
47-414 Definitions.

47-414. Definitions. As used in article 4 of chapter 47 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto:
(a) "Person" means every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation;
(b) "livestock" means cattle, horses, mules or asses;
(c) "brand" means any permanent identifying mark upon the surface of any livestock, except upon horns and hoofs, made by a hot iron or cryogenic branding;
(d) "commissioner" means the animal health commissioner of the Kansas department of agriculture;
(e) "cryogenic branding" means a brand produced by application of extreme cold temperature.
History: L. 1939, ch. 222, § 1; L. 1947, ch. 298, § 1; L. 1951, ch. 311, § 1; L. 1993, ch. 34, § 1; L. 2012, ch. 140, § 11; L. 2016, ch. 51, § 2; July 1.

Structure Kansas Statutes

Kansas Statutes

Chapter 47 - Livestock And Domestic Animals

Article 4 - Marks And Brands

47-414 Definitions.

47-414a "Brand commissioner" and "livestock brand commissioner" mean animal health commissioner.

47-416 Animal health commissioner, duties; brand recording; inspectors, investigators, examiners and employees; contractual agreements with attorney general.

47-416a Livestock special investigators; law enforcement powers; training requirements.

47-417 Adoption of brands; registration of brands; registration and renewal fees; forfeited brands; abandonment; rules and regulations.

47-417a Brand inspection; fees; disposition; livestock brand fee fund; rules and regulations.

47-418 Branding; rules and regulations; identification brands for disease control purposes.

47-419 Certified copies of record; fee.

47-420 Unlawful use of brands; additional marking systems; feedlot brands.

47-421 Unlawful branding or defacing of brands; penalty; venue of prosecutions.

47-422 Effect of brand registering; recordation, fee; evidence; use by another prohibited.

47-423 Livestock from another state.

47-424 Publication of handbook and supplements; exchanges, sale and distribution.

47-425 Duty of attorney general.

47-426 Rules and regulations.

47-427 Invalidity of part.

47-428 Entry upon private lands; inspections; proof of ownership of livestock.

47-429 Moneys received from sale of branded stray livestock.

47-446 Feedlot brands; application; not evidence of ownership.

47-448 Reciprocity agreements with livestock commissioners or brand inspection agencies of other states; brand inspection fees, not limited by other laws.

47-449 Abolishment of livestock brand emergency revolving fund and county option brand fee fund.