Sec. 1. 7 MRSA §1301, as amended by PL 1967, c. 227, §1, is further amended to read:

§1301. Purpose

The purposes of this chapter are to maintain fair and equitable practices in the buying and selling of livestock and poultry within this State, and to suppress encourage practices in such transactions which tend against the elimination of diseased and unfit that promote the sale of healthy livestock and poultry. In respect to dealers in livestock and poultry this chapter supplements and does not supersede other provisions of the laws relating to the control of livestock and poultry diseases under this Title.

Sec. 2. 7 MRSA §1302, sub-§3, as amended by PL 1967, c. 227, §1, is further amended to read:

3. Livestock and poultry. "Livestock and poultry" shall include includes all cattle, dairy, feeding, beef or breeding animals, sheep, goats, swine, horses and equines and poultry and domesticated cervidae and other exotic animals under this Title.

Sec. 3. 7 MRSA §1304, as amended by PL 1967, c. 227, §1, is further amended to read:

§1304. License; agents

No A person, firm, partnership or corporation shall may not act as a dealer of livestock and poultry unless duly licensed by the department. No An agent shall may not act for any dealer unless he that agent and the dealer are duly licensed by the department and the dealer has designated such agent to act in his the dealer's behalf. A dealer shall be is accountable and responsible for acts of his the dealer's agents.

Sec. 4. 7 MRSA §1305, as amended by PL 1967, c. 227, §2, is further amended to read:

§1305. Application for license

Application for a license as a dealer in livestock and poultry or as an agent shall must be made upon a form prescribed by the commissioner or his duly constituted agent. The commissioner or his duly constituted agent, if satisfied with the applicant's qualifications, shall issue to such applicant, if qualified, must be issued a license entitling the applicant to act as a dealer or as an agent for a period of one year from July