Source: https://www.animallaw.info/statute/ne-swap-meets-i-exotic-animal-auctions-and-swap-meets
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 10:15:31+00:00

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Summary: This law requires exotic animal auction or exchange venue organizers to maintain records in order to track animal diseases.
(1) Sections 54-7,105 to 54-7,110 shall be known and may be cited as the Exotic Animal Auction or Exchange Venue Act.
(2) The purpose of the Exotic Animal Auction or Exchange Venue Act is to require an exotic animal auction or exchange venue organizer to obtain a permit from the department before conducting an exotic animal auction or exchange venue and to maintain records for animal disease tracking purposes. Exotic animals sold at an exotic animal auction or exchange venue are often foreign to the United States or to the State of Nebraska. These exotic animals may carry dangerous, infectious, contagious, or otherwise transmissible diseases, including foreign animal diseases, which could pose a threat to Nebraska's livestock health and the livestock industry.
Laws 2006, LB 856, ß 6; Laws 2014, LB 884, ß 13, eff. July 18, 2014.
Laws 2014, LB 884, § 14, eff. July 18, 2014.
(1) Each exotic animal auction or exchange venue organizer shall apply for a permit and notify the department at least thirty days prior to the date on which the exotic animal auction or exchange venue is to be held. An applicant for a permit shall verify upon the application that the applicant has contracted the services of an accredited veterinarian to be present during the exotic animal auction or exchange venue as required under subsection (4) of section 54-7,108. Notification shall include the location, time, and dates of the exotic animal auction or exchange venue and the name and address of the exotic animal auction or exchange venue organizer. Notification shall be made in writing or by facsimile transmission. If a livestock auction market holds an exotic animal auction or exchange venue through its licensed livestock auction market, such livestock auction market shall comply with the Exotic Animal Auction or Exchange Venue Act for purposes of the exotic animal auction or exchange venue.
(2) The department may deny an application for a permit if the application does not satisfy the requirements of subsection (1) of this section, for previous acts or omissions of the applicant in noncompliance with the Exotic Animal Auction or Exchange Venue Act, or upon a determination that the applicant is unable to fulfill the duties and responsibilities of a permittee under the act.
(3) No person shall conduct an exotic animal auction or exchange venue without a permit issued pursuant to this section.
(4) No change of ownership of bovine, camelid, caprine, ovine, or porcine animals may occur at private treaty on the premises where the exotic animal auction or exchange venue is being held for the twenty-four-hour period prior to commencement of the exotic animal auction or exchange venue, nor for twenty-four hours following such event, unless such animals have a certificate of veterinary inspection at change of ownership.
Laws 2006, LB 856, § 7; Laws 2014, LB 884, § 15, eff. July 18, 2014.
(e) When required by the Animal Importation Act or the Exotic Animal Auction or Exchange Venue Act, a copy of the completed certificate of veterinary inspection for each exotic animal purchased, sold, traded, bartered, given away, or otherwise transferred at the exotic animal auction or exchange venue.
(2) An exotic animal auction or exchange venue organizer shall, during all reasonable times, permit authorized employees and agents of the department to have access to and to copy any or all records relating to his or her exotic animal auction or exchange venue business.
(3) When necessary for the enforcement of the Exotic Animal Auction or Exchange Venue Act or any rules and regulations adopted and promulgated pursuant to such act, the authorized employees and agents of the department may access the records required by this section.
Laws 2006, LB 856, § 8; Laws 2014, LB 884, § 16, eff. July 18, 2014.
Laws 2006, LB 856, § 9; Laws 2014, LB 884, § 17, eff. July 18, 2014.
Laws 2006, LB 856, § 10; Laws 2014, LB 884, § 18, eff. July 18, 2014.
Laws 2014, LB 884, § 19, eff. July 18, 2014.

References: § 14
 § 7
 § 15
 § 8
 § 16
 § 9
 § 17
 § 10
 § 18
 § 19