47-448. Reciprocity agreements with livestock commissioners or brand inspection agencies of other states; brand inspection fees, not limited by other laws. The animal health commissioner is authorized to enter into reciprocity agreements with any livestock commissioner or brand inspection agency of any other state or the United States, for cooperation in the administration of brand inspection laws and laws for the control, suppression and eradication of contagious diseases among domestic animals.
The animal health commissioner may set and charge fees for brand inspection of animals subject to any reciprocity agreement. Such fees shall not be limited by or subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 47-417a or 47-437, and amendments thereto, or any other law prescribing fees for brand inspection.
History: L. 1975, ch. 281, § 4; L. 2012, ch. 140, § 30; 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.