257.420 Permits for hatcheries and dealers in chicks or eggs. No person, firm, or corporation shall operate a public hatchery, and no person, dealer, jobber, peddler, or huckster in baby chicks, started chicks, turkey poults, other newly hatched domestic poultry, and hatching eggs shall operate as a public hatchery w ithin this state without obtaining an annual permit from the Office of State Veterinarian to so operate, and paying a permit fee of ten dollars ($10) per annum. This is not intended to require a permit of hatcheries, chick dealers, chick salesmen, or corpo rations selling less than one thousand (1,000) chicks per year, or egg dealers selling less than thirty -five hundred (3,500) eggs per year. Effective: June 29, 2023 History: Amended 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 9, effective June 29, 2023. -- Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 49, sec. 14, effective July 15, 2002. -- Created 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 165, sec. 6.
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