§ 106-418.7. Authority of Board of Agriculture, North Carolina Public Livestock Market Advisory Board and the Commissioner.
§ 106‑418.7. Authority of Board of Agriculture, North Carolina Public Livestock MarketAdvisory Board and the Commissioner.
The Board of Agriculture shall establish rules and regulationspertaining to the purchase and payment of livestock sold in this State atpublic livestock markets. The North Carolina Public Livestock Market AdvisoryBoard shall recommend rules and regulations pertaining to the administration ofthis Article to the Board of Agriculture for their consideration. TheCommissioner is authorized to revoke any livestock market operator's licenseissued or to refuse to issue a livestock market license to any person ashereinafter provided upon satisfactory proof that said person has repeatedlyviolated any of the provisions of this Article or any of the rules andregulations made and promulgated thereunder; provided that no license shall berevoked or refused until the person, firm or corporation shall have first beengiven an opportunity to appear at a hearing before the Commissioner or his agent.Any person who is refused a license, or whose license is revoked by any orderof the Commissioner, may appeal within 30 days from said order to the SuperiorCourt of Wake County or the superior court of the county of his residence. (1973, c. 38, s. 7; 1989, c. 770, s. 25.)