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House Amendment 1363

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  1  1    Amend House File 706 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 2, by inserting after line 3 the
  1  3 following:
  1  4    "NEW SUBSECTION.  2A.  "Animal weight capacity"
  1  5 means the same as defined in section 455B.161."
  1  6    #2.  Page 2, line 4, by striking the figure "2A"
  1  7 and inserting the following:  "2B".
  1  8    #3.  Page 5, by inserting before line 32 the
  1  9 following:
  1 10    "Sec. ___.  Section 9H.5, Code 1997, is amended by
  1 11 adding the following new subsection:
  1 12    NEW SUBSECTION.  2A.  An authorized entity shall
  1 13 not directly or indirectly own, control, or contract
  1 14 for the care and feeding of animals having an animal
  1 15 weight capacity of six hundred twenty-five thousand
  1 16 pounds or more for animals other than bovine or one
  1 17 million six hundred thousand pounds or more for
  1 18 bovine."
  1 19    #4.  Page 6, by inserting after line 17 the
  1 20 following:
  1 21    "(3)  A civil penalty of not more than one thousand
  1 22 dollars may be imposed on an authorized entity which
  1 23 directly or indirectly owns, controls, or contracts
  1 24 for the care and feeding of animals having an animal
  1 25 weight capacity exceeding the amount allowed pursuant
  1 26 to subsection 2A.  The authorized entity shall divest
  1 27 the interest held by the authorized entity in the
  1 28 animals to comply with subsection 2A.  The court may
  1 29 determine the method of divesting an interest held by
  1 30 an authorized entity found to be in violation of
  1 31 subsection 2A.  A financial gain realized by an
  1 32 authorized entity which disposes of an interest held
  1 33 in violation of subsection 2A shall be forfeited to
  1 34 the general fund of the state.  All court costs and
  1 35 fees shall be paid by the authorized entity holding
  1 36 the interest in violation of subsection 2A."
  1 37    #5.  Page 6, by inserting after line 17 the
  1 38 following:
  1 39    "Sec. ___.  Section 9H.5A, subsection 3, paragraph
  1 40 g, Code 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1 41    g.  The approximate number of livestock, including
  1 42 cattle, sheep, swine, ostriches, rheas, emus, or
  1 43 poultry, owned, contracted for, or kept by the
  1 44 corporation, limited liability company, trust, or
  1 45 limited partnership, and the approximate number of
  1 46 offspring produced from the livestock.  An authorized
  1 47 entity shall report the largest animal weight capacity
  1 48 for each species of animal directly or indirectly
  1 49 owned, controlled, or contracted for by the authorized
  1 50 entity." 
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  2  4 KOENIGS of Mitchell
  2  5 HF 706.505 77
  2  6 da/jw/28
     

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