12 : 68 : 29 : 05 . Obligation to identify sows or boars. Each agent or agency livestock dealer, livestock market operator, stockyard operator, commission company, buying station, operator of any concentration point at which the herd of origin of swine might be lost, and each slaughtering establishment that maintains a meat inspection service or receives sows or boars from a transp ort agent shall identify the sows or boars brought to it , unless the swine have been previously identified with identification authorized and applied as directed by the board , in accordance with 9 C.F.R. § 78.33 (January 1, 20 21 ). Failure of a previous agent or agency receiving the swine to identify the swine to the herd of origin does not relieve other agents or agencies from identifying them to the herd of origin.

Source: SL 1975, ch 16, § 1; 12 SDR 128, 12 SDR 154, effective July 1, 1986; 18 SDR 55, effective September 23, 1991; 34 SDR 100, effective October 22, 2007; 37 SDR 47, effective September 20, 2010; 39 SDR 32, effective September 3, 2012 ; transferred from § 12:68:10:02 , 45 SDR 82, effective December 11, 2018; 48 SDR 39, effective October 4, 2021 .

General Authority: SDCL 40-3-14 .

Law Implemented: SDCL 40-3-14 , 40-5-8 .

Prior versions effective: 2018-12-11.