Requirements regarding scale tickets evidencing weighing of livestock, live poultry, and feed.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 9

(a) When livestock, poultry or feed is weighed for the purpose of purchase, sale, acquisition, or settlement, a scale ticket must be issued which must be serially numbered and used in numerical sequence. Sufficient copies must be executed and provided to all parties to the transaction. Unused and partially executed scale tickets must not be left exposed or accessible to other parties and, except in feed mills, must be kept under lock when the weigher is not at the scale. In instances where the weight values are automatically recorded directly on the account of purchase, account of sale, or other basic (b) (1) The name and location of the agency performing the weighing service; (2) The date of the weighing; (3) The name of the buyer and seller or consignor, or a designation by which they may be readily identified; (4) The number of head; (5) Kind of livestock; (6) Actual weight of each draft of livestock; and (7) The name, initials, or identification number of the person who weighed the livestock, or if required by State law, the signature of the weigher, except for an automated weighing system where a weigher is not stationed at the scale. (c) (1) The name of the agency performing the weighing service; (2) The name of the live poultry dealer; (3) The name and address of the grower or seller, and purchaser, or a designation by which they may be readily identified; (4) The name, initials, or identification number of the person who weighed the poultry, or if required by State la

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 9:§ 201.49