44-12-102 - Purpose.
44-12-102. Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to encourage, stimulate and stabilize the agricultural economy of this state in general, and the livestock economy in particular, by encouraging the construction, development and productive operation by public livestock markets as a key industry of the state with all benefits of fully open, free, competitive factors, in respect to the sales and purchases of livestock.
[Acts 1967, ch. 323, § 2; T.C.A., § 44-2402.]