When the animal health commissioner of this state determines that a special permit is required to move any or all kinds or species of livestock into or through the state of Kansas, the animal health commissioner may declare that no person or persons, firm, corporation, railway, aerial or motor transportation company, or individual owner of a truck, or the agents thereof, shall ship, trail, permit to cross the state line or in any manner transport any class of livestock into the state of Kansas from any other area, state or states designated by the animal health commissioner, without first obtaining a special permit, by wire, letter or telephone, from the animal health commissioner at Topeka, Kansas. Such special permit or the authorized permit number of such special permit shall accompany such shipment of livestock into the state of Kansas.
K.S.A. 47-607a