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Brand Registration Information

Agency of Livestock Identification

Recording a Brand

To record a livestock brand, please consummate the enclosed application signed in ink by the bidder or applicants and render it to the Section of Food and Agriculture with the $70.00 recording fee.

Section 20662

Section 20662 of the Food and Agricultural lawmaking states the proposed brand blueprint must meet the following requirements:

  • It is not in conflict with any other recorded brand in this Land.
  • Information technology is capable of producing a like design when practical to the hide of an animal.
  • It is capable of readily symbolizing the intended design to whatever person who views it.
  • It lends itself to common verbal description.

Delight point on the awarding the choices of make design, location on the brute in social club of preference, and whatsoever earmarks desired. There are 6 branding positions for legal proof of buying of cattle. They are the left or correct shoulder, rib or hip.

To tape the make to a company, partnership, fictitious concern etc., a re-create of the legal document showing registration with the Secretarial assistant of State's office or county office, which names all officers, partners or owners must exist provided.

When the make is approved for registration, a Certificate of Cattle Make Registration is issued to the applicant forth with a drawing that may be used in the construction of your branding iron. The brand may not exist used until the certificate of registration has been issued.

The $lxx.00 recording fee entitles the bidder to employ the brand until the following April 1. At that time, the brand owner shall pay the biennial renewal fee of $seventy.00 by April 30 of that year. Renewing the brand is the applicant'south responsibleness.

If the renewal fee is not paid, the brand is placed in suspense and may not exist used to brand livestock. If the brand owner wishes to reinstate the suspended brand, an additional penalty fee of $thirty.00 is required.

At the end of 1 year's intermission, the brand is then canceled. Afterward counterfoil, anyone may apply for the registration of the canceled brand. If the original possessor(due south) wish to re–record the make, a new application and a $140.00 re–recording fee must be submitted.

Transferring a Brand

  • The purpose of the Transfer of Brand grade is to modify the buying of a Livestock Make. Brand ownership changes tin consist of the addition or deletion of a proper noun, or the modify of brand ownership to or from a corporation, partnership, fictitious business organisation or a trust.
  • Transfer of Brand forms are just bachelor upon request from the Agency of Livestock Identification function. When requesting a Transfer of Make form, please notify the Brand Registration function if whatever changes in accost have occurred.
  • A completed transfer form and a $seventy.00 transfer fee must be submitted when a change in brand ownership occurs.
  • The transfer form, signed by all current possessor(southward) and all new owner(s), must be submitted. If signed by a legally appointed representative such every bit an executor, power of attorney, trustee(s), partners or officer(south) of a corporation, a copy of the document indicating this authority must be provided.
  • All signatures must be notarized.
  • The new owners of the brand may not use the brand until the Make Certificate citing the transfer has been received.
  • Transfer of Brand forms cannot be candy unless the renewal status of the make is current.

Of import Note:

Change of make ownership does non constitute change in ownership of cattle bearing that make. The change of ownership of cattle requires a Brand Inspection and Neb of Sale or Consignment (Xanthous Slip) or written musical instrument from the owner or his/her agent with clear definition of number, kind, breed, sexual activity and, if branded, make and location on each animate being. Please refer to California Food & Agriculture Codes 21051 and 21702.

Transfer forms are available upon request from the Agency of Livestock Identification office. Please notify the Make Registration office if any changes in address accept occurred.

Agency of Livestock Identification
Department of Nutrient and Agriculture
1220 N Street
Sacramento, California 95814
Telephone: (916) 900-5006
Fax: (916) 900-5335

Renewing a Brand - Agricultural Code Sections

Section 20754. The owner of a brand shall, on or before Apr 30th later on its recordation, pay to the bureau a biennial period renewal fee of Seventy Dollars ($70) for the right to keep to employ the brand.

Section 20722. If the renewal fee is not paid past April 30th following the recordation of the brand, or by April 30th of the year that follows the last year for which the renewal fee has been paid, the right to use the brand is suspended as of April 1st of that year.

Section 20756. If the right to apply a brand is suspended for failure to pay the renewal fee, it may exist reinstated within 1 year from the appointment of suspension upon the payment of the biennial renewal fee of Seventy Dollars ($70) plus a Xxx Dollar ($30) penalty fee.

Section 20723. If the right to use a brand is suspended for more than 1 year, information technology becomes forfeited on April 1st following the yr of interruption. The brand may, thereafter, be rerecorded past the old owner or information technology may be applied for by any other person pursuant to this affiliate.

Section 20222. Any person who uses an unrecorded, forfeited, or canceled brand shall pay a penalization upon a get-go violation of one hundred dollars ($100); upon a second violation within the same 12–month period, a penalty of two hundred dollars ($200); and upon a third or subsequent violation inside the same 12–month period, a punishment of v hundred dollars ($500), which is in addition to any other penalty provided past law.

Section 20757. (a) Except every bit provided in subdivision (b), the fee for rerecording a forfeited or canceled brand shall be One Hundred Twoscore Dollars ($140). This amount shall accompany the application to rerecord. (b) When a penalty has been paid pursuant to Department 20222, within 30 days of the date the application to rerecord is received past the director, the fee to rerecord shall exist Lxx Dollars ($lxx).

Brands: Bovine

"Brand" ways a design that is permanently impressed on the hibernate of an animal by burning with acid, a chemical chemical compound, or a hot fe. Freeze brands cannot exist used on cattle to indicate ownership.

Brands: Horses, Mules, Burros, Sheep & Swine

Whatever person that owns a registered cattle brand may utilize the aforementioned make on the same location on horses, mules, burros, sheep or swine.

A super cold iron (freeze brand) as divers in Section 23251.ane may be used on horses, mules, burros and sheep.

Contact Information

California Department of Nutrient and Agronomics
Animal Health and Food Safety Services, Agency of Livestock Identification
1220 Northward Street
Sacramento, California 95814
Telephone: 916-900-5006
Fax: 916-900-5335
Or send an email to the agency: bliinfo@cdfa.ca.gov

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