Section 277.200

Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS

Chapter 277

Effective - 28 Aug 2005, 2 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  277.200.  Definitions. — As used in sections 277.200 to 277.215, the following terms mean:

  (1) "Department", the department of agriculture;

  (2) "Livestock", live cattle, swine, llamas, alpaca, buffalo, or sheep;

  (3) "Packer", a person who is engaged in the business of slaughtering livestock or receiving, purchasing or soliciting livestock for slaughtering, the meat products of which are directly or indirectly to be offered for resale or for public consumption. "Packer" includes an agent of the packer engaged in buying or soliciting livestock for slaughter on behalf of a packer. "Packer" does not include a cold storage plant, a frozen food locker plant exempt from federal inspection requirements, a livestock market or livestock auction agency, any cattle buyer who purchases twenty or fewer cattle per day or one hundred or fewer cattle per week, any hog buyer who purchases fifty or fewer hogs per day or two hundred fifty or fewer hogs per week, or any sheep buyer who purchases fifty or fewer sheep per day or two hundred fifty or fewer sheep per week.

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(L. 1999 S.B. 310 § 1, A.L. 2005 S.B. 355)

Expires 12-31-02

(2001) Section does not violate the dormant Commerce Clause.  Hampton Feedlot, Inc. v. Nixon, 249 F.3d 814 (8th Cir.).