47-422. Effect of brand registering; recordation, fee; evidence; use by another prohibited. Any brand registered with the animal health commissioner of the Kansas department of agriculture in compliance with the requirements of article 4 of chapter 47 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, shall be the property of the person causing such record to be made. Such brand shall be subject to sale, assignment, transfer, devise and descent as other personal property. Instruments of writing evidencing the sale, assignment or transfer of such brand shall be recorded by the animal health commissioner. The fee for recording such instruments of writing shall be an amount not to exceed $30. Such instruments shall have the same force and effect as recorded instruments affecting real estate. A certified copy of the record of any such instrument may be introduced in evidence the same as certified copies of instruments affecting real estate. Any brand recorded with the Kansas department of agriculture division of animal health shall not be used by any person other than the recorded owner.
History: L. 1939, ch. 222, § 9; L. 1971, ch. 186, § 1; L. 1991, ch. 152, § 6; L. 2012, ch. 125, § 9; L. 2013, ch. 133, § 20; L. 2016, ch. 51, § 10; 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.