The Statutory authority for Rules Governing Licensed Livestock Dealers is Chapter 201 Title 7 MRSA §§1303 and 1307. These statutes grant the Commissioner the authority to make rules governing fair and equitable practices in buying and selling livestock and poultry within the State and to suppress practices in such transactions which tend against the elimination of diseased and unfit livestock and poultry.
01-001 C.M.R. ch. 201, § 1