Kansas Statutes
Article 4 - Marks And Brands
47-414a "Brand commissioner" and "livestock brand commissioner" mean animal health commissioner.

47-414a. "Brand commissioner" and "livestock brand commissioner" mean animal health commissioner. Whenever in any statutes of this state the terms "livestock commissioner," "livestock brand commissioner" or "brand commissioner" are used, or the term "commissioner" is used to refer to the livestock brand commissioner, such terms shall be construed to mean the animal health commissioner appointed by the secretary of agriculture pursuant to K.S.A. 74-5,119, and amendments thereto.
History: L. 1969, ch. 258, § 11; L. 2012, ch. 140, § 12; L. 2016, ch. 51, § 3; 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.