Mississippi Code Title 75. Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments § 75-39-5

Any person who desires to offer baby chicks for sale at any auction or auction sale barn or community sale, shall apply for a permit so to do to the state veterinarian or the livestock sanitary board, on a form which shall be prescribed and furnished by the livestock sanitary board. The application shall be signed by the person who proposes to conduct such sale, together with the person who owns the property in or on which such sale is to be conducted, if the person who proposes to conduct such sales does not own such property. The application shall designate the date of the proposed sale, the number, breed, and variety of the chicks which are to be offered for sale and the person by whom they were produced, and shall be accompanied by a fee in the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for each and every day or fraction thereof during or on which it is proposed to sell such baby chicks. The state livestock sanitary board or the state veterinarian are hereby authorized in its or his discretion to grant or to deny the permit requested in such application, and, if deemed necessary or advisable, to require the applicant to submit a certificate, in such form as the livestock sanitary board or the state veterinarian may prescribe, certifying that the baby chicks which are to be offered for sale are in a healthy condition and free from such diseases as the board or state veterinarian may designate.