Ark. Code § 15-20-904

Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.

Section 15-20-904 - Registration

(a) The Department of Agriculture shall operate an annual registration program for the purpose of assembling and maintaining information on the number, composition, and practices of poultry feeding operations in the state.

(b) All poultry feeding operations shall register annually with the department.

(c) The department shall promulgate rules that require a poultry feeding operation to submit, at a time and in a manner determined by the department, information regarding:

(1) The number and kind of poultry housed or maintained in the poultry feeding operation;

(2) The location of the poultry feeding operation;

(3) The litter management system used;

(4) The litter storage system used and the amount of litter stored;

(5) The acreage owned or controlled by the poultry feeding operation and used for land application of litter;

(6) The land application practices used by the poultry feeding operation and the amount of litter applied;

(7) The amount and destination of litter transferred or otherwise utilized by the poultry feeding operation and the type of transfer or utilization;

(8) The poultry processor or processors with which the poultry feeding operation has contracted to provide poultry; and

(9) Any other relevant information necessary to effect the purposes of this subchapter.

(d) Each poultry feeding operation required to register under this subchapter shall pay an annual fee established by rule by the department.

(e) All rules shall be promulgated under the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.

(f)

(1) Information collected about an individual poultry feeding operation shall not be a public record.

(2) Compilation or summary information that prevents identification of individual poultry feeding operations shall be a public record.

Ark. Code § 15-20-904

Amended by Act 2023, No. 600,§ 2, eff. 8/1/2023.

Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 1117, eff. 7/24/2019.

Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 1116, eff. 7/24/2019.

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 63, eff. 7/1/2019.

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 62, eff. 7/1/2019.

Acts 2003, No. 1060, § 1.