MCA Chapter 39

in effect

Miss. Code Ann. § 75-39-1 Definitions.

The term “baby chick” as used in this chapter means any domestic fowl under the age of six (6) weeks. The term “person” includes also firms and corporations.

Miss. Code Ann. § 75-39-3 Sale of baby chicks at auction; permit required.

Before any baby chicks are offered for sale at any auction or auction sale barn or community sale, except public sales conducted by farmers selling baby chicks raised on their own premises, a permit shall be granted to offer such baby chicks for sale by the livestock sanitary board or the state veterinarian.

Miss. Code Ann. § 75-39-5 Application for permit.

Any person who desires to offer baby chicks for sale at any auction or auction sale barn or community sale, shall apply for a permit so to do to the state veterinarian or the livestock sanitary board, on a form which shall be prescribed and furnished by the livestock sanitary board. The application shall be signed by the person who proposes to conduct such sale, together with the person who owns the property in or on which such sale is to be conducted, if the person who proposes to conduct such sales does not own such property. The application shall designate the date of the proposed sale, the number, breed, and variety of the chicks which are to be offered for sale and the person by whom they were produced, and shall be accompanied by a fee in the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for each and every day or fraction thereof during or on which it is proposed to sell such baby chicks. The state livestock sanitary board or the state veterinarian are hereby authorized in its or his discretion to grant or to deny the permit requested in such application, and, if deemed necessary or advisable, to require the applicant to submit a certificate, in such form as the livestock sanitary board or the state veterinarian may prescribe, certifying that the baby chicks which are to be offered for sale are in a healthy condition and free from such diseases as the board or state veterinarian may designate.

Miss. Code Ann. § 75-39-7 Labeling of containers.

Before any such chicks are offered for sale or sold, each box, crate, coop or other container shall be plainly labeled with appropriate statements designating the kind and number of chicks in each such container, the date on which such chicks were hatched and by whom hatched, and any other representations made at or prior to the time of sale relative to the purity of the breed, the freedom of such chicks from disease and such tests as shall have been made on the parent stock for pullorum disease.

Miss. Code Ann. § 75-39-9 Report of sales.

Within three (3) days after the sale shall have been held, the person who conducted the sale shall send a statement to the livestock sanitary board giving a complete list of the number and kind of baby chicks sold at such sale, the name and address of each purchaser, together with a copy of the representations and guarantees made in relation thereto, if any were made by the person who conducted such sale, and the person conducting such sale shall be held to have had full knowledge of the representations and guarantees made at the time of such sale and shall be as fully responsible and liable for any such representations and guarantees as is the person who sets forth such representations and guarantees on the containers as provided in Section 75-39-7.

Miss. Code Ann. § 75-39-11 Regulations.

The state livestock sanitary board is hereby authorized to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to administer the provisions of this chapter and to prevent the spread of disease among poultry.

Miss. Code Ann. § 75-39-13 Penalty for violation.

Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00).