40-15-13. Livestock handling and testing facilities required for auction agency license--Revocation or suspension if facilities inadequate or unsanitary.

Every livestock auction agency shall provide adequate facilities for care, sorting, feeding, and handling of livestock and for proper inspection, examination, and testing for disease according to specifications determined by the Animal Industry Board. No license shall be issued or renewed by the board until the facilities are deemed adequate by it; and any time after issuance of the license, it may revoke or suspend the license of the agency until faults are corrected whenever it determines that the facilities of the agency are then inadequate or that the premises are not being maintained and operation conducted in a sanitary and safe manner to prevent the spread of livestock disease.

Source: SDC 1939, § 40.2005; SL 1957, ch 203, § 2; SL 1990, ch 325, § 248.