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Kansas Animal Health Department
708 SW Jackson
Topeka, KS 66603-3714
phone: (785) 296-2326
fax: (785) 296-1765
The Kansas Animal Health Department was created on July 1, 1969 and is directed by the Livestock Commissioner. This department consolidated all of the activities of the former departments known as the Livestock Sanitary Commission and the State Brand Commission.
The Kansas Animal Health Board was created to serve as an advisory and policy making board to the Livestock Commissioner. The board consists of nine members appointed by the Governor (these members include representatives from the following industries: 3 beef, 1 swine, 1 dairy, 1 market, 1 Veterinarian, 1 Pet Animal and 1 Citizen at large). The Livestock Commissioner is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the board.
Powers and duties of the livestock commissioner are set forth in Chapter 47, Articles 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, and 22 as well as K.S.A. 75-3142. K.S.A. 47-610 states, "It shall be the duty of the livestock commissioner to protect the health of domestic animals of the state from all contagious or infectious disease and for this purpose, he is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, maintain and enforce such quarantine, sanitary and other regulations as he may deem necessary."
Pork producers interact with this agency through two main avenues.
- The KAHD is required by state statute to provide permits to Kansas feedlots. The stature below describes which operations need a permit. For an application, click on the following link, Feedlot Facility Application.
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47-1503
Chapter 47.--LIVESTOCK AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS
Article 15.--FEEDLOTS
47-1503. Feedlot operator's license; fees; disposition of moneys. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a feedlot within the state of Kansas without having first obtained a license from the livestock commissioner authorizing and permitting such operation.
(b) An operator of any feedlot in the state of Kansas, or a person desiring to operate a feedlot in the state of Kansas, shall obtain, from the livestock commissioner, a license to operate a feedlot, unless exempted therefrom. The owner or operator of any livestock feedlot, with a capacity of less than 1,000 head of livestock, may apply for and obtain a license for feedlot operations, if such owner or operator chooses and elects to come under the terms and provisions of this act, but the licensing for operations at a capacity of less than 1,000 head shall not be required.
(c) Application for a livestock feedlot license shall be filed with the livestock commissioner, on a form prescribed and furnished by the commissioner. Upon the filing of such an application and payment of the required fees, the commissioner shall issue a livestock feedlot license to such applicant, provided the application discloses information assuring the commissioner that the operation of such feedlot will be conducted in accordance with the standards set forth elsewhere in this act, and with rules and regulations adopted by the commissioner.
(d) Feedlot licenses shall be issued for the term of one year, to expire on June 30 following the date of issuance. Feedlot licenses may be continued in force by annual renewal or extension of such license with the payment of an annual license fee, and with continued compliance by the operator with the provisions of this act, and acts amendatory of the provisions thereof and supplemental thereto, and rules and regulations adopted hereunder.
(e) Each feedlot operator, who shall be granted a license, shall pay a fee in an amount set by the Kansas animal health board and adopted by rules and regulations of the commissioner for such license and for annual renewal thereof, in accordance with and subject to the following schedule of maximum fees:
Feedlot capacity
Maximum fee
Under 1,000 head.....................$75
1,000 to 2,999 head..................$150
3,000 to 9,999 head..................$300
10,000 to 17,999 head..............$450
18,000 head and over...............$750
The fees established by this subsection on the day preceding the effective date of this act shall continue in effect until different fees are set as provided under this subsection.
(f) If an original feedlot license expires within six months after date of issuance, only 50% of the applicable license fee shall be required. An application for feedlot license shall not be approved, nor shall a license be issued to any applicant unless the application is accompanied by the applicable license fee under the schedule of fees in this section. Each licensed feedlot operator shall pay an annual license fee in accordance with the schedule of fees in this section and, upon payment of such fee and a showing of compliance with other requirements, shall be entitled to a renewal or extension of such operator's license for the ensuing license year.
(g) The livestock commissioner shall remit all moneys received by or for the commissioner under article 15 of chapter 47 of Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the animal disease control fund.
History: L. 1963, ch. 287, § 3; L. 1970, ch. 207, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 2, § 27; L. 1980, ch. 156, § 6; L. 1986, ch. 197, § 5; L. 1991, ch. 152, § 18; L. 1993, ch. 167, § 6; L. 2001, ch. 5, § 171; July 1.
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- The KAHD also has statutory authority over dead animal removal. The statute below describes the avenues for disposal of dead animals. Since this was written, the Department has also approved composting as a method of disposal.
DEAD ANIMAL REMOVAL
K.S.A. 47-1219. (Dead animals) Unlawful disposal; penalty.
(a) Any person or persons who shall put any dead animals, carcasses of such animals or domestic fowl, or any part thereof, into any well, spring, brook, branch, river, creek, pond, road, street, alley, lane, lot, field, meadow or common shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $100.
(b) Any owner or owners of any dead animals, carcasses of such animals or domestic fowl, or any part thereof, who shall knowingly permit the same to remain in any well, spring, brook, brand, river, creek, pond, road, street, alley, lane, lot, field, meadow or common to the injury of the health or to the annoyance of or damage to the citizens of the state or any of them, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $100. Every 24 hours the owners shall permit the same to remain thereafter shall be deemed an additional offense.
(c) Persons disposing of dead animals shall do so in one of the following ways:
(1) Burial;
(2) incineration; or
(3) delivery or unloading of the carcasses of dead animals or packing house refuse at a disposal plant, substation, rendering plant or place of transfer licensed by the commissioner.
Animals should be buried a minimum of three feet underground
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