South Dakota Administrative Rules › Title 12 - Department of Agriculture › Article 12:79 - South Dakota CertifiedT beef program › Chapter 12:79:03 - SOUTH DAKOTA CERTIFIED ENROLLED CATTLET and SOUTH DAKOTA CERTIFIEDT beef program requirements › Section 12:79:03:01 - Enrollment

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 10, July 15, 2024
To enroll an animal in the enrolled cattle program or natural enrolled
	 cattle program, a licensed producer shall submit the required data to the data
	 management system. The data shall be in an electronic form or in other forms as
	 allowed by the secretary. Licensed producers shall:
(1) Confirm that the animal to be enrolled
  was born within the State of South Dakota in the physical possession of a
  licensed or trained producer, that the animal has continuously since birth been
  in South Dakota in the physical possession of the original licensed or trained
  producer, and that the animal has remained in South Dakota in the physical
  possession of the original licensed or trained producer seeking enrollment of
  the animal.
(2) Have a verifiable
  address;
(3) Except when an animal
  is temporarily located at a veterinary facility or at a licensed livestock
  sales facility licensed by the Animal Industry Board for the purpose of sale,
  confirm that the animal will be in the physical possession of a licensed
  producer who meets the requirements of §
									12:79:03:05, and that the licensed
  producer will raise the animal in accordance with the requirements of that
  section;
(4) Confirm that the
  licensed producer seeking enrollment of the animal is the first person in
  physical possession of the animal for which enrollment is sought;
(5) Agree that removing the animal from the
  State of South Dakota automatically terminates the animal's enrollment and
  participation in the enrolled cattle program and the natural enrolled cattle
  program and that the licensee will not use the "
SOUTH DAKOTA CERTIFIED
  ENROLLED CATTLE
TM" trademark in reference
  to any animal that has at any time before or after enrollment been removed from
  the State of South Dakota;
(6)
  Confirm that the animal conforms to the sex, breed, and age requirements of
  §
									12:79:03:04 at the time of
  enrollment;
(7) Confirm that the
  animal was enrolled in the enrolled cattle program or the natural enrolled
  cattle program before the earlier of removal of the animal from the verifiable
  address of its birth or before commingling steers and heifers that are eligible
  for enrollment with steers and heifers that originate off premise;
(8) If the licensed producer is not a natural
  person, provide the signature of each natural person owning a ten percent or
  greater interest in the licensee;
(9) Enroll eligible cattle no less than seven
  days before any transfer from the original verifiable address of birth;
  and
(10) Upon completion of
  enrollment the producer will receive from the department the Transfer Warranty
  Certificate for that enrollment that will be used by producer at the time of
  physical transfer of possession of the enrolled cattle.
General Authority:
SDCL
		39-24-6(1),(3),(4).
Law Implemented:
SDCL
		39-24-3.