4:3-13. Application for permit; contents; fee; discretion in granting or denying permit
Any person who desires to offer baby chicks for sale at any auction or auction sale barn or community sale, shall apply for a permit so to do to the secretary of agriculture on a form which shall be prescribed and furnished by him. The application shall be signed by the person who proposes to conduct such sale together with the person who owns the property in or on which such sale is to be conducted, if the person who proposes to conduct such sale does not own such property. The application shall designate the date of the proposed sale, the number and breed of the chicks which are to be offered for sale and the person by whom they were produced, and shall be accompanied by a fee in the sum of five dollars ($5.00) for each and every day or fraction thereof during or on which it is proposed to sell such baby chicks. The director of the Division of Animal Industry is hereby authorized in his discretion to grant or to deny the permit requested in such application, and, if deemed necessary or advisable, to require the applicant to submit a certificate, in such form as the secretary of agriculture may prescribe, certifying that the baby chicks which are to be offered for sale are in a healthy condition and free from such diseases as the secretary of agriculture may designate.
L.1938, c. 82, p. 200, s. 2. Amended by L.1950, c. 272, p. 926, s. 1.