TITLE 25

ANIMALS

CHAPTER 17

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

25-1724.  Market charter and application — Fees, charter and hearing. No person shall conduct or operate a public livestock market unless and until he has a market charter therefor, upon which the current annual market charter fee has been paid. Any person making application for such market charter shall do so to the director in writing, verified by the applicant, in the form as prescribed by the director, showing the following:

(a)  The name and address of the applicant, with a statement of the names and addresses of all persons having any financial interest in the applicant and the amount of such interest. This statement shall include the legal names of all members of a partnership; the officers and members of the governing board of an association; and five (5) principal stockholders of a corporation. If, during the period of a market charter issued hereunder, any change shall take place in the personnel identified herein, the holder of the market charter shall forthwith make a verified report of any such change to the director.

(b)  Financial responsibility of the applicant in the form of a statement of all assets and liabilities.

(c)  A legal description of the property and its exact location with a complete description of the facilities proposed to be used in connection with such public livestock market.

(d)  The schedule of charges applicant proposes to charge for all services proposed to be rendered.

(e)  A detailed statement of the facts upon which the applicant relies showing the general confines of the trade area proposed to be served by such public livestock market, the benefits to be derived by the livestock industry and the services proposed to be rendered.

Such application shall be accompanied by the annual charter fee as prescribed in section 25-1728, Idaho Code. In addition, the application shall be accompanied by a hearing fee of five hundred dollars ($500) which shall not be returnable to the applicant. Said annual charter fee and hearing fee shall be remitted separately. The director shall remit said hearing fee to the state treasurer of the state of Idaho to be credited to the "Public Livestock Market Fund."

History:

[25-1724, added 1961, ch. 201, sec. 6, p. 310; am. 1965, ch. 65, sec. 1, p. 100; am. 1974, ch. 18, sec. 150, p. 364; am. 1985, ch. 238, sec. 2, p. 565; am. 1994, ch. 314, sec. 2, p. 999.]