§749. Fees

            A. The commission shall charge for the following services:

            (1) The recording of a brand or mark shall be fifteen dollars.

            (2) The renewing of recordation shall be ten dollars.

            (3) The transfer of recordation shall be ten dollars.

            (4) The second and subsequent certified copies of recordations, renewals, and transfers shall be six dollars and fifty cents.

            (5) The commission shall establish by rule or regulation a fee, which shall not exceed seventy-five dollars, for the lifetime recordation of a brand or mark.

            B. For each publication and each supplemental list of brands and marks, the commission shall charge the price required to be printed on the document by R.S. 43:31 plus one dollar.

            C. The commission may charge fees authorized by other federal and state law for services provided in accordance with any agreement between the commission and any state or federal agency.

            D.(1) All assessments, fees, penalties, and all other funds received under the provisions of this Part, subject to the exceptions contained in Article VII, Section 9 of the Constitution of Louisiana, shall be deposited immediately upon receipt into the state treasury and shall be credited to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund.

            (2) Out of the funds remaining in the Bond Security and Redemption Fund after a sufficient amount is allocated from that fund to pay all obligations secured by the full faith and credit of the state which become due and payable within any fiscal year, the state treasurer, prior to placing the remaining funds in the state general fund, shall pay an amount equal to the total amount of funds paid into the state treasury under the provisions of this Part into a special fund which is hereby created in the state treasury and designated as the Livestock Brand Commission Fund, hereinafter referred to as the "fund".

            (3) All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of each fiscal year shall remain in the fund. The treasurer shall invest the monies in the fund in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. All interest earned on monies from the fund invested by the state treasurer shall be deposited in the fund.

            (4) Subject to appropriation, the monies in the fund shall be used for the following purposes:

            (a) To provide for the expenses of the program established by this Part, as determined by the commission.

            (b) To fund any and all costs related to the carrying out of the powers and duties granted to the commission and the Department of Agriculture and Forestry under this Part.

            Acts 1950, No. 245, §2. Amended by Acts 1952, No. 273, §1; Acts 1982, No. 113, §1; Acts 2003, No. 121, §1, eff. May 28, 2003; Acts 2021, No. 234, §1, eff. June 11, 2021.