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
Chapter 47 - Livestock And Domestic Animals
47-414a "Brand commissioner" and "livestock brand commissioner" mean animal health commissioner.
47-416a Livestock special investigators; law enforcement powers; training requirements.
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.
47-428 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.
47-449 Abolishment of livestock brand emergency revolving fund and county option brand fee fund.