Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) The operator of
a livestock market shall maintain the following standards to get, keep, or
renew a livestock market license:
(a) follow
procedures outlined in Title 4, Chapter 30, Livestock Markets, and any state
and federal laws pertaining to livestock health and movement;
(b) keep records on any animals purchased
sufficient to enable the department to satisfactorily trace those animals to
their herd of origin and destination:
(i)
livestock markets shall maintain the identity of ownership of each animal as
set forth in Section 424-402, and this rule; and
(ii) shall keep records for at least two
years;
(c) identify each
animal as required in 9 CFR
71.18,
9 CFR
71.19, and
9 CFR
79;
(d) ensure a person does not remove tags in
trading channels;
(e) permit
authorized state or federal inspectors to review each phase of the livestock
market operations, including records of the origin and destination of livestock
handled by the livestock market;
(f) provide adequate space for pens,
alleyways, chutes, and sales ring; and cover sales ring with a leak-proof
roof;
(g) construct each pen,
alleyway, chute, and sales ring to be safe, easily cleaned, and properly
drained in any weather;
(h)
maintain the facility in a clean and sanitary manner; and
(i) provide specially designated isolation
pens to quarantine animals suspected of having a contagious disease.
(2) Each livestock market licensee
shall ensure that livestock sold through livestock markets complies with Utah
law and rules, including Rule R58-3 Brucellosis Vaccination Requirements, Rule
R58-21 Trichomoniasis, Rule R58-22 Equine Infectious Anemia, and Section
R58-2-3 Reportable and
Quarantinable Animal Diseases.
(3)
Livestock market licensees or veterinarians shall:
(a) report any suspected cases of diseases
from the Utah List of Reportable Conditions for Animals to the State
Veterinarian; and
(b) not release
animals suspected to be infected until the department or its authorized
representative approves the movement.
(4) The List of Reportable Conditions is
available from the State Veterinarian's office or the department
website.
(5) A livestock market
licensee shall:
(a) provide the department
with a schedule of sale days that the commissioner has not previously approved,
giving the beginning hour;
(b)
provide and maintain one or more chutes, in addition to the loading chute, at a
convenient and usable place in a covered area suitable for restraining,
inspecting, examining, testing, tagging, branding, and other treatments and
procedures ordinarily required to provide livestock sanitary, healthy, and safe
service at markets;
(c) provide
personnel as required to assist department or federal inspectors;
(d) provide specially designated isolation
pens to quarantine animals suspected of contagious disease and animals
classified as reactors, exposed, suspects, "V" branded, or "S"
branded;
(e) limit the sale of
restricted animals to a slaughtering establishment where the establishment
maintains federal or state inspections or a qualified feedlot approved by the
department; and
(f) arrange with an
accredited veterinarian to provide services to ensure compliance with state and
federal laws for intrastate and interstate movement.
(6) Each livestock market licensee shall
adhere to brucellosis testing and vaccination standards for female cattle not
sold for slaughter, including:
(a) vaccinating
unvaccinated female cattle from four to 12 months of age before leaving the
livestock market;
(b) testing
unvaccinated female cattle over 12 months of age not going to slaughter for
brucellosis and vaccinated if not pregnant before leaving the livestock
market;
(c) testing unvaccinated
pregnant cattle for brucellosis before leaving the livestock market;
(d) ensuring that each buyer vaccinates
cattle within 30 days after calving; and
(e) ensuring that the testing and vaccination
results are reported to the department.
(7) The department may, after due notice to
the livestock market licensee involved and opportunity for a hearing, deny an
application for a license or suspend or cancel a license when the department is
satisfied that the licensee has:
(a) violated
state law or rules governing the interstate or intrastate movement, shipment,
or transportation of livestock;
(b)
made false or misleading statements in their application for licensing, or
false or misleading statements as to the health or physical conditions of
livestock regarding official test results or status of the herd of
origin;
(c) knowingly sold animals
that exhibit signs of a communicable disease for purposes other than
slaughter;
(d) demonstrated their
inability or unwillingness to carry out the record keeping requirements
contained in this rule;
(e) failed
to comply with any law or rule pertaining to livestock health or
movement;
(f) failed to maintain
livestock market facilities in a safe, clean, and sanitary manner; or
(g) operated as a livestock market without
proper licensing.
