Chapter 159 — Chapter 159

PART III. LICENSING §159-11 Certificate of sanitation. (a) The board may issue certificates of sanitation to slaughterhouses and meat processors which are subject to this chapter and which meet minimum sanitary specifications required for: (b) Notwithstanding any other law or rul…

§159-13 Application for a license. The board may issue licenses to slaughterhouses and meat processing establishments having certificates of sanitation issued under section 159-11. An applicant for an original or renewal license to operate as a slaughterhouse operator or meat pro…

§159-15 Bonding. Upon a person being granted a license to slaughter animals for the purpose of using the meat or meat products thereof in intrastate commerce, the board shall exact from the licensee a bond, or other form of surety acceptable to the board or an appropriate agent, …

§159-2 Findings and declaration of necessity. It is hereby declared that the meat industry is a paramount agricultural industry of this State and the production and marketing of meat is an enterprise that is of significant importance to the economy of this State and to the health…

PART IV. INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS §159-21 Ante-mortem inspection. (a) For the purpose of preventing the use in intrastate commerce of meat or meat products which are adulterated, the board shall cause to be made, by a veterinarian or inspector appointed for that purpose, an examin…

§159-25 Slaughter, transportation, and selling. No person shall, with respect to cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat products of animals:

§159-27 Inspector. Veterinarians and inspectors shall examine and inspect all cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines the inspection of which is hereby provided for, and all carcasses and parts thereof, and all meat or meat products thereof, and the sanitary…

§159-28 Bribery. Any person or employee of any person, who shall give, pay, or offer, directly or indirectly, to any inspector, or any other officer or employee of the State authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter or by the rules of the board, any money…

§159-29 Exemptions. (a) This chapter requiring inspection of the slaughtering of animals and the preparation of the carcasses, parts thereof, and meat or meat products at establishments conducting such operations shall not apply: (b) The custom slaughter of animals and preparatio…

§159-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires: "Act" means the "Hawaii Meat Inspection Act". "Adulterated" shall apply to any carcass, part thereof, meat or meat products under one or more of the following circumstances: "Board" means the board…

§159-34 Prohibitions. (a) The preparation, sale, offering for sale, or transportation or receipt for transportation in intrastate commerce of meat and meat products derived from exotic animals, unless inspected and passed as provided for under this part, is prohibited. Violators …

PART V. MEAT PROCESSORS AND RELATED INDUSTRIES §159-36 Articles not intended for human food. Inspection is not provided under this chapter at any establishment for the slaughter of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or the preparation of any carcasses o…

§159-37 Records; subject to examination. (a) For the enforcement of this chapter, the following classes of persons shall keep records as the board may prescribe and all persons subject to the requirements shall, at all reasonable times, upon notice by a duly authorized representa…

§159-39 Dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals. No person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in intrastate commerce, dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall …

PART VI. INSPECTION SERVICE, WITHDRAWAL AND COMPENSATION §159-46 Inspection; overtime compensation. All animals slaughtered by any slaughterhouse duly licensed under this part shall be inspected by an inspector duly authorized by the department, both before and after slaughtering…

§159-47 REPEALED. L 1986, c 206, §4.

§159-48 Refusal and withdrawal of inspection. The board, for the period, or indefinitely, as it deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, may refuse to provide, or withdraw, inspection service under this chapter with respect to any establishment if it determines…

PART VII. VIOLATIONS, PENALTIES, PROSECUTION, COMPACTS, CONSTRUCTION §159-51 Interstate and federal compacts. (a) The board is hereby designated as the state agency which is responsible for cooperating with the Secretary of Agriculture under section 301 of the Federal Meat Inspec…

§159-52 Penalties; prosecution. (a) Whenever any carcass, part of a carcass, or meat or meat product of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines or any product exempted from the definition of a meat or meat product or any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cat…

§159-7 General powers. The department, through its board, may: