32.15.202    PROPER CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS: AREAS TO BE CONCRETED: DRAINAGE

(1) Properly constructed loading and unloading chutes, and holding pens must be provided for the humane, sanitary, and efficient handling of livestock.

(2) The surface of all loading pens, all unloading pens, all cattle-testing chutes and testing-holding pens, all pens in which swine are held for any purpose, all quarantine pens, and all alleyways adjacent to paved pens in the consignor and outbuyer areas must be covered with concrete or other acceptable impervious material.

(3) The surface area of sufficient consignor pens must be covered with concrete or other acceptable impervious material to provide 25 square feet of pavement or other acceptable impervious material per animal, which must be determined by multiplying 25 square feet by the average number of animals at each sale held the last 4 months of the year for the past 3 years.

(4) The surface of sufficient outbuyer pens must be covered with concrete or other acceptable impervious material to equal at least 20% of the surface area of the consignor pens.

(5) The surface area of the consignor pens in a new market must be covered with concrete or other acceptable impervious material shall be determined by multiplying 25 square feet by the number of animals expected to be sold on an average sale day the last 4 months of the year.

(6) The surface area of outbuyer pens in a new market must be covered in the amount equal to at least 20% of the area designated in (5) .

(7) Sufficient alleyways must be covered with concrete or other acceptable impervious material arranged adjacent to pens covered with concrete or other acceptable impervious material, so that livestock can enter and leave the auction market and at all times be on surfaces covered with concrete or other impervious material.

(8) All loading, unloading, and holding pens, alleyways, and entire yard area must be adequately drained.

(9) Automatic float control or other acceptable control must be provided for all water troughs or tanks, to avoid overflow creating unsanitary conditions.

History: Secs. 81-2-102, 81-8-231 MCA; IMP, Secs. 81-2-102, 81-8-231, MCA; Eff. 12/31/72; EMERG, AMD, Eff. 11/4/75.