§ 40-15-1 — Business constituting livestock auction agency--Exceptions.

Any person operating a place of business where livestock are bought and sold through public auction, including livestock buying stations not buying and selling through public auction, is a livestock auction agency, except any place or operation where future farmers or 4-H groups or fair associations or private fairs conduct sales of livestock, any place or operation conducted for a dispersal sale of the livestock of a farmer, dairyman, livestock breeder, or feeder who is discontinuing said business and no other livestock is sold or offered for sale, and any place of operation where a breeder or an association of breeders of livestock assemble and offer for sale and sell under their own management any livestock.

Legislative History

SDC 1939 § 40.2001; SL 1961, ch 204, § 1; SL 1970, ch 232, § 1; SL 1990, ch 325, § 235.