§ 96-g. Definitions. As used in this article, unless otherwise expressly stated, or unless the content or subject matter otherwise requires; 1. “Department” means the department of agriculture and markets. 2. “Commissioner” means the commissioner of agriculture and markets. 3. “Person” means any person, firm, corporation, or association. 4. “Inspection legend” means a mark or […]
§ 96-h. Application of article. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, the knowing sale, exposure for sale, exchange or transportation at any and all places within the state of the fur, hair, skin or flesh of domesticated dog (canis familiaris) or domesticated cat (felis catus or domesticus) as food, meat, custom slaughtered meat, farm […]
§ 96-i. General powers. The department, through the commissioner, is hereby vested with the power to administer and enforce the provisions of this article.
§ 96-j. Farmer and custom processors. This article shall not apply to any bona fide farmer who butchers his own domestic animals on his own farm exclusively for use by him and members of his household and his non-paying guests and employees, custom slaughterers, custom slaughtered meat, farm dressed meat, custom meat by-products, custom meat […]
§ 96-l. Inspection legend required. Except as exempted by the provisions of this article no carcasses of animals, parts thereof, meat, meat by-product or meat food product for human consumption, shall be sold, exposed for sale, exchanged or transported within the state unless the same shall bear an official inspection legend or a meat label […]
§ 96-m. Sale of inspected meat. All carcasses of animals, parts thereof, meat, meat by-products, and meat food products bearing an inspection legend or meat label affixed after a federal inspection may be sold, exposed for sale, exchanged or transported at all places within the state, except that dressed carcasses of equines or other large […]
§ 96-p-2. Mishandling and improper transportation of meat, meat by-products and meat food products. (1) No person, firm, association, partnership or corporation engaged in carrying or transporting meat, meat by-products or meat food products shall transport such products except in an enclosed vehicle in such a manner as to assure delivery of the aforesaid products […]
§ 96-q. Unmarked and unlabeled meat. Inasmuch as it cannot be determined for certain by any presently known method of inspection whether meat is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit or unsafe for food unless the organs and other tissues of an animal are inspected when slaughtered, or whether meat, meat by-products or meat food […]
§ 96-r. Unlawful possession of inspection legend and meat label. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess, keep, or use an inspection legend or meat label or to possess, keep or use any stamp or label simulating the inspection legend and meat label unless authorized pursuant to the federal meat inspection act.
§ 96-s. Rules and regulations. The commissioner is hereby authorized to enact, amend and repeal rules and regulations necessary to carry out and give full force and effect to the provisions of this article. The commissioner is hereby authorized to adopt, insofar as appropriate, the regulations, from time to time promulgated under such federal act […]
§ 96-t. Enforcement. 1. The commissioner may institute such action at law or in equity as may appear necessary to enforce compliance with any provision of this article and the rules and regulations adopted and promulgated hereunder and, in addition to any other remedy under article three of this chapter or otherwise, may apply for […]
§ 96-w. Severability. If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the article which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this article are declared […]
