SENATE BILL NO. 579


   May 6, 1999, Introduced by Senators MC MANUS, GAST and GOSCHKA 
        and referred to the Committee on Farming, Agribusiness and 
        Food Systems.



        A bill to amend 1937 PA 284, entitled

   "An act to prevent the spread of infectious and contagious dis-
   eases of livestock; to require persons, associations, partner-
   ships and corporations engaged in the buying, receiving, selling,
   transporting, exchanging, negotiating, or soliciting sale,
   resale, exchange or transportation of livestock to be licensed
   and bonded by the department of agriculture; to keep a producers'
   proceeds account; to provide for the refusal, suspension or revo-
   cation of such licenses; to provide for weighmasters; to provide
   for the inspection and disinfection of yards, premises and vehi-
   cles; and to provide penalties for the violation of this act,"

   by amending section 1 (MCL 287.121).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 1.  (1)  (a)  "Department"  as
             used in this act shall

 2     mean  MEANS the Michigan  state 
                       department of agriculture.

 3         (2)  (b)  "Director"  as used in this
             act  means the direc-

 4    tor of the department.  of agriculture. 







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 1         (3)  (c)  "Animals" or "livestock"  as
             used in this act

 2     shall mean and include  MEANS AND INCLUDES horses,
                       ponies, mules,

 3    cattle, FARMED CERVIDAE, calves, swine, sheep, and goats.

 4         (4)  (d)  "Dealer" or "broker"  as
             used in this act shall

 5     mean  MEANS any person, copartnership, association,
                       or corpora-

 6    tion engaged in the business of buying, receiving, selling,

 7    exchanging, transporting, negotiating, or soliciting sale,

 8    resale, exchange, transportation, or transfer of any such

 9    animals.  , but it shall not be construed to include:  (1)
             any 

10    DEALER OR BROKER DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

11         (A) A railroad or  air line  AIRLINE
             transporting animals

12    either interstate or intrastate.  ; (2) any 

13         (B) A person, association, copartnership, or corporation who

14    or which, by dispersal sale, is permanently discontinuing the

15    business of farming, dairying, breeding, or feeding animals.
              ;

16     (3) any 

17         (C) A person, association, copartnership, or corporation

18    that sells livestock which has been raised on the premises of

19    such person, association, copartnership, or corporation.  ;
             (4)

20     any 

21         (D) A butcher, packer, or processor to whom animals are

22    delivered and used exclusively for slaughter, or that part of the

23    business of a farmer  which consists  CONSISTING of
             buying or

24    receiving animals for breeding, grazing, and feeding purposes and

25    the sale or disposal of such animals after the feeding or grazing

26    period of not less than 21 days.  ; (5) terminal 





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 1         (E) TERMINAL livestock markets where agricultural research

 2    service of the United States department of agriculture veterinary

 3    inspection is daily maintained.  ; (6) occasionally
             

 4         (F) OCCASIONALLY held consignment sales such as breed, 4-H,

 5    or F.F.A.  sales.

 6         (5)  (e)  "Agent"  as used in this act
             shall mean  MEANS any

 7    person, firm, association, copartnership, or corporation buying,

 8    receiving, selling, exchanging, transporting, negotiating, or

 9    soliciting sale, resale, exchange, transportation, or transfer of

10    any animals for or on behalf of any dealer or broker.

11         (6)  (f)  "Livestock auction"  as used
             in this act shall

12     mean  MEANS any livestock market where livestock is
                       accepted on

13    consignment and the auction method is used in the marketing of

14    such livestock.  A  LIVESTOCK AUCTION DOES NOT
             INCLUDE A public

15    auction of farm goods by a farmer.  is not included in this
             defi-

16     nition of a livestock auction. 

17         (7)  (g)  "Weighmaster"  as used in
             this act shall mean 

18    MEANS any person registered under this act who weighs livestock

19    at any livestock market licensed under this act.

20         Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take

21    effect unless Senate Bill No. _____ or House Bill No. _____

22    (request no. 02784'99) of the 90th Legislature is enacted into

23    law.











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