KRS 257.330: Permit required for auction or community sale of baby chicks or poults --

Application -- Fee -- Inspection -- Destruction of diseased chicks or poults.

(1) Before any baby chicks or baby poults are offered for sale at any auction or

auctions, sale barn, or community sale, except public sales conducted by farmers

selling baby chicks or baby poults reared on their own premises, a permit shall be

secured from the Office of State Veterinarian, or the state veterinarian.

(2) Any person who desires to offer baby chicks or baby poults for sale at any auction

or auctions, sale barn, or community sale, shall apply to the Office of State

Veterinarian for a permit to hold the sale. A form shall be prescribed and furnished

by the office. This application s hall be submitted at least three (3) days before the

sale to allow time for inspection of the chicks or poults offered by a representative

of the office before any chicks or poults are sold. This application shall be signed

by the person who proposes to co nduct the sale, together with the person who owns

the property in or on which the sale is to be conducted, if the person who proposes

to conduct the sale does not own the property. The application shall designate the

date of the proposed sale, the number and breed of the chicks or poults to be offered

for sale, and the person or firm by whom they were produced, and shall be

accompanied by a fee in the sum of one dollar ($1) per hundred (100) chicks or

poults to be offered for sale. The office shall be autho rized in their discretion to

grant or to deny the permit requested in the application, and if deemed necessary or

advisable to require the applicant to submit a certificate in a form as the office may

prescribe, certifying that the baby chicks or baby poul ts which may be offered for

sale are in healthy condition.

(3) On inspection by the representative of the office, if the chicks or poults offered for

sale are found to be diseased, the representative may confiscate all chicks or poults

found to be diseased and may destroy the chicks and poults.