§ 53-7-216. License Required for the Operation of an Establishment — Application
No person shall maintain an establishment for the slaughtering of livestock or poultry or the processing of livestock, deer, or poultry without first having secured a license from the department of agriculture and having paid all inspection and license fees. Each separate business location shall be licensed, and the license shall not be transferable. Any […]
§ 53-7-217. Revocation or Suspension of License — General Provisions for Hearings and Appeals
If any establishment licensed under this part is deemed by the commissioner to be operated or maintained in any unsanitary manner, or in violation of any of this part or of any regulation duly promulgated pursuant to this part, the commissioner may give written notice of at least ten (10) days to the person operating […]
§ 53-7-218. Exclusive Method of Reviewing Orders of Commissioner — Disposition of Confiscated Property
The remedy and procedure provided in § 53-7-217 shall be the exclusive method of reviewing all orders of the commissioner issued pursuant to the hearing authorized by this part and shall be the sole remedy of any petitioner or claimant. No judge or any court shall have the authority or jurisdiction to interfere by replevin, […]
§ 53-7-219. Fees for Licenses and Inspections
The fee for licenses and inspection issued pursuant to this part shall be set by rule pursuant to § 43-1-703.
§ 53-7-220. Licensing of Custom Slaughterers — Fee
Upon application, custom slaughterers shall also be licensed by the department of agriculture for the same periods of time as other licensees; provided, that the custom slaughterers first satisfy the commissioner that they are qualified and competent to conduct their operations in conformity with the applicable provisions of this part and regulations duly promulgated pursuant […]
§ 53-7-205. Official Inspection Marks and Required Labeling — Conforming Products Acceptable for Intrastate Commerce — False or Misleading Labels
Each shipping container of any meat, meat food product, or poultry product inspected under the authority of this part and found to be wholesome and not adulterated, shall, at the time the product leaves the official establishment, bear, in distinctly legible form, the official inspection mark and the approved plant number of the official establishment […]
§ 53-7-206. Prohibited Acts
The following acts or the causing of the following acts within this state is prohibited: The processing for, or the sale or offering for sale, transportation, or delivery or receiving for transportation, in intrastate commerce, of any livestock carcass or part of any livestock carcass, meat food product, or poultry product, unless the article has […]
§ 53-7-207. Compliance With Law Required for Operation
Subject to § 53-7-214(a), no establishment in this state shall slaughter any livestock or poultry or process any livestock, deer, or poultry carcasses, or parts of any livestock, deer, or poultry carcasses, meat food products, or poultry products, for human consumption, except in compliance with the requirements of this part.
§ 53-7-208. Records Required — Inspection — Retention
For the purpose of enforcing this part, persons engaged in this state in the business of processing for intrastate commerce or transporting, shipping or receiving in intrastate commerce livestock or poultry slaughtered for human consumption, or meat, meat food products or poultry products, or holding the articles so received, shall maintain records the commissioner, by […]
§ 53-7-209. Exemptions
The commissioner shall, by regulation and under conditions as to labeling, and sanitary standards, practices, and procedures that the commissioner may prescribe, exempt from specific provisions of this part: Livestock producers and poultry producers with respect to livestock and poultry carcasses and parts of livestock and poultry carcasses, meat food products, and poultry products, processed […]