CHAPTER 8. Sale and Gift of Cattle, Their Carcasses and Hides [21701. - 21751.]

Chapter 8 enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.

§§ 21701–21751 · 28 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Bills of Sale §§ 21701–21710 · 11 sections

   • § 21701 As used in this article, “animal” includes: (a) A bovine animal. (b) The carcass of a bovine animal from which the hide has not been removed. (c) The hide of a…
   • § 21702 No person shall buy, sell, or accept any animal, unless the seller or donor gives, and the buyer or donee receives, at the time of the delivery of the animal,…
   • § 21702.1 Any person who sells or otherwise transfers title to any cattle or calves to another person shall remit to the director within 30 days of that sale, the beef…
   • § 21703 Except as provided in Section 21058, bills of sale or consignment required by any provision of Division 9 (commencing with Section 16301) or Division 10…
   • § 21704 The failure of the seller or donor to give a written bill of sale or written instrument to the buyer or donee has no effect upon the validity of any sale or…
   • § 21705 If by any provision of this division a certificate, bill of sale, or other document is required to accompany any shipment of animals, nothing in this division…
   • § 21706 Any invoice of sale or bill of sale which has been altered, defaced or changed is void. An inspector may, however, indicate on a bill of sale any number of…
   • § 21707 Except as otherwise provided in Section 21706, it is unlawful for any person to alter, deface or change any invoice of sale or bill of sale.
   • § 21708 An auctioneer shall not offer any milking cow for sale at any auction sale of cattle unless the milking cow has been milked out and stripped within 12 hours of…
   • § 21709 Except as otherwise provided in Section 21706, it is unlawful for any person to possess, or to present to an inspector or peace officer, any invoice of sale or…
   • § 21710 It is unlawful for any person to falsify any of the bill of sale information required by Sections 21702 and 21703, or to present such falsified documents to an…
2. ARTICLE 2. Public Salesyards §§ 21731–21751 · 17 sections

   • § 21731 Stockyards which are posted by the United States Department of Agriculture under the Packers and Stockyards Act (7 U.S.C., Sec. 181 et seq.), agricultural…
   • § 21732 The license and bond provisions of this article do not apply to the sale by an auctioneer of cattle on the premises of the owner of the cattle whether or not…
   • § 21733 A person shall not engage in the business of selling cattle at a public salesyard unless he has done all of the following: (a) Obtained a license from the…
   • § 21734 The bond required pursuant to Section 21733 is subject to the approval of the director and shall be conditioned as follows: (a) That the person shall not sell…
   • § 21735 Any amount which is recovered upon the bond shall be paid to the owner of the animal.
   • § 21736 The bureau shall grant to every applicant that complies with this article and the regulations which are adopted pursuant to it, a separate license to operate…
   • § 21737 A permit shall be granted by the bureau to change the address or location of a previously licensed salesyard. No additional license fee or bond shall be…
   • § 21738 Each such license shall be renewed on or before the first day of each succeeding calendar year. The renewal fee is one hundred dollars ($100) for each…
   • § 21743 Any person that is engaged in the business of selling cattle on consignment at any public stockyard, public salesyard, or public cattle sales market shall…
   • § 21744 Cattle shall not be released from a public stockyard, public salesyard, public cattle sales market, or any other public consignment sale or private auction…
   • § 21745 The press-numbered bill of sale or press-numbered certificate of sale that is required pursuant to Section 21744 shall contain all of the following information…
   • § 21746 The director may make regulations which govern the brand inspection of cattle at public salesyards, public stockyards and at private cattle auction sales. The…
   • § 21747 It is unlawful for any person to sell cattle at a public salesyard or release cattle from public salesyards unless an inspector has made a brand inspection of…
   • § 21748 It is unlawful for any person to release any cattle which are sold at public auction unless the required brand inspection certificate has been prepared by the…
   • § 21749 Except as otherwise provided in Section 21750, any person that engages as a business in the sale of cattle at a public salesyard without a license is, in…
   • § 21750 Any public cattle salesyard operator that has had a previous license and continues to operate a public salesyard after the expiration of his license is not…
   • § 21751 (a) If cattle sold at a public auction have a dairy exemption number, the auctioneer shall announce at the sale that those cattle are being sold under the…