KRS 257.420: Permits for hatcheries and dealers in chicks or eggs.

No person, firm, or corporation shall operate a public hatchery, and no person, dealer,

jobber, peddler, or huckster in baby chicks, started chicks, turkey poults, other newly

hatched domestic poultry, and hatching eggs shall operate as a public hatchery within this

state without obtaining an annual permit from the Office of State Veterinarian to so

operate, and paying a permit fee of ten dollars ($10) per annum. This is not intended to

require a permit of hatcheries, chick dealers, chick salesmen, or corpo rations selling less

than one thousand (1,000) chicks per year, or egg dealers selling less than thirty -five

hundred (3,500) eggs per year.