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to follow immediately after Section 430 of said Article, and to read
as follows:

Livestock Sales
430A. (Definitions.)

(a)  Person: Individual agent, partnership, farm, association, cor-
poration, cooperative or other group or combination.

(b)  Dealer or Itinerant Dealer: A person who engages in the
business of buying, selling, exchanging, bartering, or transferring
BOVINE animals from his own premises or from any other location.

(c)  Livestock Sales Agency: A person who conducts sales of live-
stock at irregular intervals by auction, barter, transferring, or any
other means, at designated places, such as farm premises, auction
markets, fair grounds, or any other location where the animals are
gathered.

(d)  Livestock Market or Livestock Auction Market: A person and
an established location provided with holding pens, scales, sales ring,
and/or other physical features, where livestock is assembled,
weighed, graded and offered for sale at auction, trade or by other
means, on specified sale days or at any other time.

(e)  Trucker or Hauler: A person who engages in the business of
transporting livestock in trucks or other conveyances from a farm,
a livestock auction, sales agency, or dealer's premises.

430B. (Records.)

(a)  It shall be the duty of each auction market, sales agency and
dealer to maintain a record covering all animals received and dis-
posed of. These records must include date of receipt and date of
sale, name and address of consignor and purchaser. Each bovine
animal must be identified by metal ear tag number, tattoo number,
purebred name and registry number, or horn or hoof brand number,
by breed, sex, age and approximate weight, the health status and
the purpose for which the animals are consigned, that is, for breed-
ing or for feeding and grazing. Individual identification is not re-
quired for:

1.   Animals, including calves, for immediate slaughter

2.   Steers, spayed heifers, and calves under 8 months of age of
beef type for feeding and grazing purposes.

Such records must be retained for a period of three years.

(b)  It shall be the duty of each trucker or hauler to have in the
possession of the operator of the vehicle a health certificate when re-
quired or a declaration giving the name and address of the owner and
consignor of the animals and the name and address of the consignee.

(c)  Consignments of animals not accompanied by the appropriate
health certificate or declaration as outlined in this section will be
subject to quarantine.

430C. (Licenses.)

Each Livestock Auction Market, each Livestock Sales Agency, and
Dealer or Itinerant Dealer located within the State of Maryland or