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MO Rev Stat § 277.024 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.024 - Aquatic products classified as livestock.

Effective - 28 Aug 1995   277.024. Aquatic products classified as livestock. — 1. As used in this section, the term "aquaculture" means the controlled propagation, growth and harvest of aquatic organisms, as defined by rule of the conservation commission.  2. For the purposes of construction of any law of this state or any rule or regulation promulgated by any department, board, or commission of this state, aquatic products obtained through aquaculture shall be treated and classified as livestock. ­­-------- (L. 1995 S.B. 109 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 277.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.030 - License required to hold livestock sale.

Effective - 28 Aug 1957   277.030. License required to hold livestock sale. — No person as defined in this chapter shall engage in the business of operating a livestock sale or market unless duly licensed as hereinafter provided. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 310 § 3, A.L. 1957 p. 20)
MO Rev Stat § 277.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.040 - Application for license — issuance — disposition of fees.

Effective - 28 Aug 2015   277.040. Application for license — issuance — disposition of fees. — 1. Any person engaged in establishing or operating a livestock sale or market for the purpose aforesaid shall file with the state veterinarian of the state department of agriculture an application for a license to transact such business under the provisions of this chapter. The application shall state the nature of the business and the city, township and county, and the complete post office address at which the business is to be conducted, together with any additional information that the state veterinarian requires, and a separate license shall be secured for each place where a sale is to be conducted such as is defined and required to be licensed under the provisions of this chapter.  2. The state veterinarian shall then issue to the applicant a license upon payment of an annual license fee to be fixed by rule or regulation entitling the applicant to conduct a livestock sale or market for the period of the license year or for any unexpired portion thereof, unless the license is revoked as herein provided.  3. All license fees collected under this chapter shall not yield revenue greater than the total cost of administering this chapter during the ensuing year. All license fees collected shall be made payable to the order of the state treasurer and deposited with him to the credit of the "Livestock Sales and Markets Fees Fund" hereby created, subject to appropriation by the general assembly, to inure to the use and benefit of the animal health division of the department of agriculture.  4. No business entity, whether a proprietorship, partnership or corporation shall be issued a livestock market license if any such proprietor, partner or, if a corporation, any officer or major shareholder thereof, participated in the violation of any provision of this chapter within the preceding five years, which resulted in the revocation of a livestock market license. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 310 § 4, A. 1949 S.B. 1100, A.L. 1957 p. 20, A.L. 1989 S.B. 300, A.L. 2015 S.B. 12)
MO Rev Stat § 277.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.060 - Posting of license.

Effective - 28 Aug 1957   277.060. Posting of license. — Every licensee licensed under the provisions of this chapter and carrying on or conducting business under the license shall publicly post, in a conspicuous place in or at the place of business, the license issued by the state veterinarian, the license to be kept so posted or displayed for inspection by any person. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 310 § 6, A.L. 1957 p. 20)
MO Rev Stat § 277.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.070 - Responsibility of licensee — net proceeds.

Effective - 28 Aug 1957   277.070. Responsibility of licensee — net proceeds. — 1. Each licensee is responsible to the consignor of any animal offered in the livestock sale for the net proceeds of any bona fide sale of the animal and on the date of sale is responsible to the purchaser of the livestock for the safe delivery of the animal to the purchaser or his agent in a loading chute at site of the sale.  2. "Net proceeds" means and includes the amount remaining of any sale after deducting commissions, inspection fees and all other deductible items authorized by the terms of sale as announced by licensee, his or its agents, at the opening of the livestock sale at which the sale is made. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 310 § 7, A.L. 1957 p. 20)
MO Rev Stat § 277.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.080 - Bond — letter of credit or other financial security required — form — refusal by director, when, powers of director.

Effective - 04 May 1989   277.080. Bond — letter of credit or other financial security required — form — refusal by director, when, powers of director. — 1. Every person subject to the provisions of this chapter shall, before receiving a license, provide a satisfactory bond in an amount designated by the state veterinarian.  2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of this section, a licensee may substitute in lieu of any bond required therein a certificate of deposit issued by an institution insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or the federal savings and loan insurance corporation or a bank irrevocable letter of credit, or any combination thereof, or any instrument of financial security approved and authorized by the Packers and Stockyards Administration of the United States Department of Agriculture. Letters of credit shall name the director of the department of agriculture or his designated representative as beneficiary, and be submitted in a form established by rule or regulation. The director of the department of agriculture or his designated representative may refuse to accept a letter of credit in lieu of the bond required by this chapter if the director finds that the issuing bank is or may become insolvent, or for any other reason may be unable to honor the terms of the letter of credit. The director may require an issuing bank to submit evidence of its financial condition, and the director may seek the cooperation of the division of finance in evaluating the financial condition of an issuing bank. In the event that the licensee entered into a trust fund agreement, the beneficiary of a letter of credit or the pledgee of a certificate of deposit shall be in accordance with the federal Packers and Stockyards Administration Act. In any situation wherein a trust agreement is entered into, the state veterinarian shall be the trustee on a letter of credit. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 310 § 8, A.L. 1957 p. 20, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1989 S.B. 300)  Effective 5-04-89
MO Rev Stat § 277.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.090 - Sales record to be kept.

Effective - 28 Aug 1957   277.090. Sales record to be kept. — The licensee shall maintain and keep a complete record so that the state veterinarian, his deputy or any peace officer may ascertain therefrom the origin and destination of each animal sold by the licensee within one year next after date of the sale. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 310 § 9, A.L. 1957 p. 20)
MO Rev Stat § 277.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.100 - Inspection and test to be made by approved persons — request by market operator to dismiss inspecting veterinary, procedure.

Effective - 04 May 1989   277.100. Inspection and test to be made by approved persons — request by market operator to dismiss inspecting veterinary, procedure. — 1. The state veterinarian shall require all licensees defined in this chapter to obtain inspection of all livestock offered for sale at any livestock sale or market in the manner that he designates.  2. The state veterinarian, or his deputy, may in his discretion order any livestock vaccinated or quarantined or both if he thinks such action advisable. The authority to require vaccination given herein shall not be construed to give the state veterinarian power to issue a general order for the vaccination of all livestock sold in this state or sold at all livestock sales in this state.  3. Livestock inspections, and all official testing of livestock for disease, including any method of identifying animals in connection with a disease, shall be made by a licensed veterinarian or other person approved by the state veterinarian and whose performance of official tests or inspections shall be in accordance with rules and regulations that may be made by the state veterinarian not contrary to the provisions of this chapter. The veterinary inspector is subject to dismissal by the state veterinarian for neglect of duty in the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter or for misconduct while on official duty. Any market operator who desires to dismiss from his position a veterinarian approved under this section, shall notify the state veterinarian, who shall review the circumstances surrounding the proposed dismissal. The state veterinarian shall provide both the market operator and the market veterinarian an opportunity to appear and be heard. In the event that such circumstances cannot be satisfactorily resolved within thirty days, the state veterinarian shall withdraw approval of the market veterinarian for that market or sale, unless it shall appear that the predominant reason for dismissal is a refusal by the market veterinarian to breach a state or federal requirement relating to the performance of official tests and inspections. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 310 § 10, A.L. 1957 p. 20, A.L. 1989 S.B. 300)  Effective 5-04-89
MO Rev Stat § 277.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.120 - Records, authority to inspect — subpoena powers — financial records confidential, exception.

Effective - 04 May 1989   277.120. Records, authority to inspect — subpoena powers — financial records confidential, exception. — The state veterinarian or his duly authorized representative may inspect the records of any livestock sales or market licensee, at any reasonable time, to determine the origin and destination of any livestock handled by the licensee, or to determine if any provision of this chapter has been violated. In addition, the state veterinarian may subpoena any market record or any record relating to a market transaction. Such subpoena shall be enforceable in the circuit court of the county in which the livestock market is located or wherein any livestock sale transaction is consummated. Any documents or records obtained by the state veterinarian or his representatives which reveal the financial condition of a licensee shall be deemed confidential, and shall not be disclosed except at a hearing before the director or a court. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 310 § 12, A.L. 1957 p. 20, A.L. 1989 S.B. 300)  Effective 5-04-89
MO Rev Stat § 277.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.130 - Licensee shall determine true ownership.

Effective - 28 Aug 1957   277.130. Licensee shall determine true ownership. — The licensee shall use reasonable care to determine the true ownership and source of any livestock sold or offered for sale and shall keep a record of same. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 310 § 13, A.L. 1957 p. 20)
MO Rev Stat § 277.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.140 - Penalties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1957   277.140. Penalties. — Any person, or any officer, agent, representative or employee of such person, who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall upon conviction be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and in addition thereto his or their license is subject to suspension or revocation by the state veterinarian. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 310 § 14, A.L. 1957 p. 20)
MO Rev Stat § 277.141 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.141 - Warranties of merchantability or fitness to be in writing.

Effective - 28 Aug 1980   277.141. Warranties of merchantability or fitness to be in writing. — If a contract for the sale of livestock does not contain a written statement as to a warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, the seller is not liable for damages resulting from the lack of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of the livestock sold under the terms of that contract. ­­-------- (L. 1980 H.B. 972)
MO Rev Stat § 277.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.160 - Rulemaking authority of state veterinarian, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1995   277.160. Rulemaking authority of state veterinarian, procedure. — The state veterinarian is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to aid in the administration and enforcement of this chapter. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of this chapter shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 300, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3)
MO Rev Stat § 277.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.170 - Injunction powers of state veterinarian.

Effective - 04 May 1989   277.170. Injunction powers of state veterinarian. — The state veterinarian may apply to the circuit courts and the circuit courts shall be authorized to issue orders enjoining any violation of this chapter. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 300)  Effective 5-04-89
MO Rev Stat § 277.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 277 - Missouri Livestock Marketing Law|Section 277.180 - Bribes to violate the livestock marketing law — class E felony.

Effective - 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories   277.180. Bribes to violate the livestock marketing law — class E felony. — 1. Any person who offers a bribe to any livestock market or sale operator or market veterinarian for the purpose of inducing such operator or veterinarian to violate the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a class E felony.  2. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to authorize any private cause of action, or to establish any substitute principal of a law in connection therewith. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 300 §§ 277.180, 277.200, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)  Effective 1-01-17
MO Rev Stat § 278.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 278 - Soil Conservation|Section 278.060 - Title of law.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   278.060. Title of law. — Sections 278.060 to 278.155 may be known and cited as "The Soil and Water Conservation Districts Law". ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 839 § 1, A.L. 1961 p. 31)
MO Rev Stat § 278.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 278 - Soil Conservation|Section 278.090 - Referendum — how conducted.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   278.090. Referendum — how conducted. — Wherever in this law a referendum is provided for and is used, it shall be conducted by secret ballot in such a manner that any person connected with, or any official of such referendum or election cannot know how any land representative votes. Ballot boxes similar to those used in any general election in this state shall be used and such boxes shall only be opened and the ballots counted in the presence of at least three persons who are residents of the soil and water district and who shall sign a statement they witnessed the opening of the ballot boxes and the counting of the ballots therein, but such ballot boxes shall not be opened or any ballots counted until immediately after the time expires for casting a ballot. Any person designated to conduct such a referendum or assist in such a referendum, and in that manner gains knowledge as to how any land representative voted and reveals such knowledge to any other person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 839 § 3a, A.L. 1961 p. 31)
MO Rev Stat § 278.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 278 - Soil Conservation|Section 278.100 - Establishment of soil and water conservation districts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   278.100. Establishment of soil and water conservation districts. — 1. Whenever the state soil and water districts commission shall receive from any county or any township or townships thereof a petition declaring that the saving of the soil and water in that county or in the specified township or townships is in their opinion a public necessity, said petition being signed by not less than twenty-five land representatives in each township or by fifty percent of the land representatives, if there are less than fifty land representatives in any township in the area covered by the petition, the soil and water commission, when satisfied that such petition is valid, shall call for and conduct within the area described by such petition, a public hearing of land representatives within that area, on the question of establishing that area as a soil and water conservation district. If from this hearing it shall appear to the soil and water commission that there is a general desire for establishing as a soil and water district the county or the specified township or townships, the commission shall without delay determine by a survey of the conditions of farm land in the county or specified township or townships whether the establishment of that area as a soil and water conservation district is actually necessary and administratively feasible. Upon reaching a favorable conclusion on these matters, the commission shall call for and conduct, or cause to be conducted, a referendum by ballot of land representatives within that area, on the question of establishing the county or the specified township or townships as a soil and water conservation district.  2. If a majority of all land representatives voting in this referendum, do vote in favor of this establishment, and if in the judgment of the soil and water commission the total number of votes cast does amount to a substantial expression of opinion, the soil and water commission shall at once declare the county or township, or townships thereof, as specified by the referendum, to be established as a soil and water conservation district; but if these provisions are not met, the soil and water commission shall at once declare the question of establishment to have been lost, although another referendum on this question may be called by the soil and water commission for this area at any time after two years from the date of this declaration, provided the commission meanwhile has received evidence of a more general desire for the establishment of a soil and water district for this area. Subsequent to the establishment of a township or townships as a soil and water district any other township or townships in the same county may be added to this soil and water district by the procedure used for the first establishment. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 839 § 4, A.L. 1961 p. 31)
MO Rev Stat § 278.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 278 - Soil Conservation|Section 278.130 - Soil and water supervisors — limitation of powers.

Effective - 27 Jun 2000   278.130. Soil and water supervisors — limitation of powers. — 1. The soil and water supervisors of any soil and water district shall not  (1) Have or exercise the right of eminent domain;  (2) Incur indebtedness beyond available funds;  (3) Issue bonds;  (4) Levy taxes;  (5) Make or levy benefit assessments or any other kind of assessments;  (6) Take contributions from that soil and water district by exactions or persuasions;  (7) Engage in the marketing of farm products or in the buying and selling of farm supplies other than those products or supplies used or needed directly or indirectly in soil and water conservation work, subject to section 278.135;  (8) Engage in agricultural research or agricultural extension teaching except under the instruction of the Missouri college of agriculture.  2. They may accept voluntary contributions from any source, if the donations are offered for the sole and exclusive purpose of promoting the saving of soil and water within the soil and water district, and if the soil and water supervisors satisfactorily guarantee to the donors the faithful use of their donations for that purpose. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 839 § 7, A.L. 1961 p. 31, A.L. 1965 p. 95, A.L. 2000 S.B. 741)  Effective 6-27-00
MO Rev Stat § 278.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 278 - Soil Conservation|Section 278.140 - Two or more districts may cooperate.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   278.140. Two or more districts may cooperate. — Any two or more soil and water conservation districts organized under the provisions of this law may cooperate with one another in the exercise of any authority conferred upon such districts or of any duty described for such districts by this law. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 839 § 8, A.L. 1961 p. 31)
MO Rev Stat § 278.145 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals|Chapter 278 - Soil Conservation|Section 278.145 - Counties and cities may cooperate and contribute.

Effective - 28 Aug 1969   278.145. Counties and cities may cooperate and contribute. — The county commission of any county or the governing body of any city, town or village in which a soil and water conservation district lies in whole or in part may cooperate with the supervisors of the district in carrying out the purposes of the district program, and in the event the county commission or governing body finds that the benefits accruing to the county or municipal area by reason of the program of the soil and water conservation district justify such action, the county commission or governing body may contribute money, services or the use of equipment to the district. ­­-------- (L. 1969 S.B. 184 § 2)