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 CHAPTER 7

H. B. No. 195—(Cunningham and Hanson of Benson.)

REGULATION DIRECT BUYERS OF LIVESTOCK

An Act to provide for the licensing of direct buyers of livestock, regulating the conduct of such buyers, and providing for the feeding and watering of livestock purchased by them, and providing a penalty.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. As used herein the term "buyer" shall mean any person, co-partnership, association, or corporation, engaged in buying livestock, horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry, direct from producers, their agents or representatives, either for resale direct to packers and/or processors of livestock, and/ or for packers and/or processors of livestock or shipment to terminal markets. Nothing herein contained shall apply to farmers who purchase livestock to complete loads of livestock of their own for shipment to market. The buyer shall have the scale upon which the animals are weighed inspected and tested by some duly authorized inspector.

§ 2. On and after July 1, 1933, all buyers of livestock as herein defined shall be duly licensed as hereinafter provided. No agent shall act for any such buyer unless the buyer is duly licensed and has designated such agent to act in his behalf and notified the Board of Railroad Commissioners in his application for license or in writing of such appointment, and requested the Commission to issue to such agent an agent's license. The buyer shall be accountable and responsible for the acts of his or its agent.

§ 3. Each buyer, before engaging in the business of buying livestock direct from producers at places other than public terminal livestock markets, shall annually on or before January 1, (and for the year 1933 on or before August) file an application with the Board of Railroad Commissioners on a form prescribed by it for a license to transact such business. The application shall state the nature of the business as hereinabove set forth, the name or names of the person or persons applying for the license, and if the applicant be a firm, association, partnership or corporation the full name of each member of such firm, association or partnership, or the names of the officers of the corporations, and the name of the agent or agents of such person, firm, association, partnership or corporation, the postoffice address of the principal place of business of the applicant, and such other facts as the Commissioners prescribe.

Each applicant shall file with his application a surety company bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, in which the Commissioners shall be the obligee but which shall be for the purpose of protecting any person dealing with such applicant from loss by reason