Chapter 65 — PUBLIC HEALTH

65-6a18. Definitions. As used in this act: (a) "Secretary" means the secretary of agriculture. (b) "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other business unit or governmental entity. (c) "Broker" means any person, firm or corporation engaged …

65-6a19. Cooperation with U.S. department of agriculture. The secretary of agriculture is hereby authorized to cooperate with the United States department of agriculture in the enforcement of this act and the federal meat and poultry inspection acts. History: L. 1969, ch. 296, § …

65-6a20. Inspection of livestock, rabbits and poultry before slaughter; separate slaughter for diseased; inspection of carcasses. (a) For the purpose of preventing the use in intrastate commerce of meat and meat food products and poultry and poultry products which are adulterated…

65-6a21. Post-mortem inspection of carcasses capable of use as human food; marking or labeling; destruction of adulterated carcasses for food purposes; removal of inspectors for failure to destroy. For the purposes of the Kansas meat and poultry inspection act, the secretary shal…

65-6a22. Inspection of carcasses prior to entry into department for processing; inspection of meat and poultry food products returned to slaughtering or processing establishment; limitation of entry of carcasses and products. The provisions of K.S.A. 65-6a21 and amendments theret…

65-6a23. Inspection of meat and poultry food products; inspectors' ingress and egress; marking or labeling of products; destruction of adulterated products; removal of inspectors. For the purposes hereinbefore set forth the secretary shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed…

65-6a24. Packaged meat and poultry products; labeling and container standards; violations, procedure; hearing; judicial review. (a) When any meat, meat food product, poultry or poultry product prepared for intrastate commerce which has been inspected and marked "Kansas inspected …

65-6a25. Sanitary conditions of establishments; sanitation rules and regulations; adulterated meat, poultry or products. The secretary shall cause to be made, by veterinarians or by other competent inspectors, such inspection of all slaughtering, canning, salting, packing or simi…

65-6a26. Inspection during both day and nighttime operation; inspection fee schedule; overtime payment. The secretary shall cause an examination and inspection of all livestock, domestic rabbits and poultry, and the food products thereof, which are slaughtered and prepared in est…

65-6a27. Violations of act. (a) It shall be a violation of this act for any person: (1) To slaughter any livestock, domestic rabbits or poultry, except in compliance with this act; (2) to prepare any meat, meat food product, poultry or poultry product which is capable of use as h…

65-6a28. Acts involving official marks, labels and certificates or simulation thereof prohibited. (a) No brand manufacturer, printer or other person shall cast, print, lithograph or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation thereof, or any label bearing…

65-6a29. Horses, mules and rabbits; labeling of carcass or products; preparation in separate establishment. No person shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation in intrastate commerce any carcasses of horses, mules or other equines, dome…

65-6a30. Meat and poultry inspection program established; personnel; inspection duties; rules and regulations. (a) There shall be established by the secretary of agriculture a meat and poultry inspection program to enforce the provisions of the Kansas meat and poultry inspection …

65-6a31. Exceptions to inspection requirements; custom slaughtering. (a) The provisions of this act shall not apply: (1) To the slaughtering by any person of animals of such person's own raising or to the preparing by the slaughterer or to the transporting in intrastate commerce …

65-6a32. Storage and handling of meat, poultry and food products; rules and regulations. The secretary of agriculture may prescribe by rules and regulations the conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products of livestock and poultry and poultry …

65-6a33. Slaughter and preparation of meat and products not for human food, not inspected; identification. Inspection shall not be provided under this act at any establishment for the slaughter of livestock or poultry, or the preparation of any carcasses or parts or products of s…

65-6a34. Engaging in business; registration required; annual fee; reinstatement fee. (a) No person shall: (1) Engage in business, in or for intrastate commerce, as a broker or animal food manufacturer; (2) engage in business in such commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or p…

65-6a34a. Denial or suspension of registration; hearing; appeal. (a) The secretary may deny, suspend, revoke or modify the provisions of any registration issued under the Kansas meat and poultry inspection act, if the secretary finds, after notice and opportunity for a hearing ar…

65-6a35. Cooperation with U.S. secretary of agriculture; appointment to advisory committees. (a) The Kansas department of agriculture is hereby designated as the state agency which shall be responsible for cooperating with the secretary of agriculture of the United States under t…

65-6a36. Refusal to provide or withdraw inspection services for applicant or recipient convicted of certain offenses; hearing. (a) The secretary may, for such period, or indefinitely, as the secretary deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act, refuse to provide, or w…

65-6a37. Adulterated or misbranded meat or products; procedure. The procedure to be followed with respect to meat or meat products believed to be adulterated or misbranded shall be in like manner as that set forth in K.S.A. 65-660 for foods in general. History: L. 1969, ch. 296, …

65-6a38. Act not affecting trade of locker plant located near border of state. Nothing in this act shall be construed as limiting or prohibiting the operator of any frozen food locker plant, whose plant is so located near the border of the state that its normal trade area include…

65-6a39. Jurisdiction to enforce act vested in district court. The district courts are vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce and to prevent and restrain violations of this act, and shall have jurisdiction in all other kinds of cases arising under this act, except as pr…

65-6a40. Penalties. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act or the provisions of any rule or regulation adopted under the provisions of this act for which no other criminal penalty is provided shall be deemed guilty of a nonperson misdemeanor and upon conviction…

65-6a41. Records; maintenance and access to records; refusal to furnish certain information and documents to secretary unlawful. (a) Any person registered or required to be registered under the provisions of K.S.A. 65-6a34, and amendments thereto, shall keep records that fully an…

65-6a42. History: L. 1969, ch. 296, § 25; Repealed, L. 1973, ch. 2, § 36; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Documents U…

65-6a43. Severability of act. If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the act and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby…

65-6a44. Adoption of regulations. The secretary of agriculture is hereby authorized to prepare and adopt regulations for the proper enforcement of the act. The secretary of agriculture may adopt regulations for the exemption of the operations of any person from inspection or othe…

65-6a44a. Secretary to establish standards of identity for water added pork products. (a) The secretary of agriculture shall adopt rules and regulations establishing standards of identity for water added pork products within 60 days after the effective date of this act. (b) The p…

65-6a45. Meat and poultry inspection; disposition of moneys received; meat and poultry inspection fee fund. The secretary of agriculture shall remit all moneys received by or for the secretary under article 6a of chapter 65 of Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, to…

65-6a46. Title of act. This act may be cited as the Kansas meat and poultry inspection act. History: L. 1969, ch. 296, § 29; December 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archive…

65-6a47. Imported meat, poultry or dairy products; labeling; definitions. Every wholesaler or retailer who sells or offers for sale in the state of Kansas through a meat market, store or otherwise, any meats, either canned, frozen or cured, or any poultry, eggs or butter, which a…

65-6a48. Same; enforcement of act. The attorney general shall enforce the provisions of this act. The attorney general or the duly authorized agents of the attorney general shall have access at all regular business hours to every retail establishment which sells or offers to sell…

65-6a49. Same; injunctions. In addition to other remedies provided by this act the attorney general is authorized to apply to the district court, and such court shall have jurisdiction upon a hearing and for cause shown to grant a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any…

65-6a50. Same; prosecution for violation of act. Upon determining that a provision of this act has been violated, it shall be the duty of the attorney general to institute appropriate proceedings in the proper courts without delay and to prosecute the same in the manner provided …

65-6a51. Same; rules and regulations. The attorney general is hereby authorized to adopt such rules and regulations as the attorney general deems necessary to properly enforce the provisions of this act. History: L. 1970, ch. 252, § 5; L. 1975, ch. 462, § 80; L. 1999, ch. 67, § 4…

65-6a52. Penalty. Any person who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a class C misdemeanor. History: L. 1970, ch. 252, § 6; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LC…

65-6a53. Imported catfish; labeling. No catfish which is produced outside of the United States shall be sold or offered for sale at retail in the state of Kansas for consumption off of the premises upon which sold or offered for sale unless clearly labeled in letters not less tha…

65-6a54. Same; rules and regulations. The secretary of health and environment shall adopt such rules and regulations deemed necessary for the proper administration and enforcement of this act. History: L. 1977, ch. 209, § 2; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCI…

65-6a55. Same; violation of act; penalty. Any violation by any person, partnership, corporation or other association of the provisions of this act is a class C misdemeanor. History: L. 1977, ch. 209, § 3; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2…

65-6a56. Violations of meat and poultry inspection act; civil penalties; disposition of moneys. (a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of the Kansas meat and poultry inspection act, article 6a of chapter 65 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, or a…

65-6a57. Actions arising out of consumption of a meat product; liability of producer where livestock inspected under Kansas law. (a) As used in this section, for livestock prepared in Kansas in accordance with K.S.A. 65-6a18 et seq., and amendments thereto: (1) "Producer" means a…

65-6a58. Same; liability of producer where livestock inspected under federal law. (a) As used in this section, for livestock prepared in Kansas in accordance with the federal meat inspection act, 21 U.S.C.A. § 601 et seq.: (1) "Producer" means any person engaged in the business o…

65-6a59. Voluntary inspection of animals. (a) The secretary may make provision for voluntary inspection for animals other than livestock, poultry or rabbits which can or may be used in and for the preparation of meat or meat products, poultry or poultry products and establish suc…

65-6a60. Supervision of operations; slaughtering operations; processing operations; work schedules. (a) No operation requiring inspection under article 6a of chapter 65 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, may be conducted unless it is conducted under the sup…

65-6b01. Amygdalin (laetrile); definitions. As used in this act: (a) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery by the state board of healing arts. (b) "Medical care facility" means the same as the meaning ascribed thereto in K.S.A. 65-425. (c) "Health c…

65-6b02. Same; use in treatment by physician, limitations on interference with. No medical care facility or other health care facility shall interfere with the physician-patient relationship by restricting or prohibiting the use of amygdalin (laetrile) as an adjunct to recognized…

65-6b03. Same; when prescribed or administered. A physician may prescribe or administer amygdalin (laetrile) as an adjunct to recognized, customary or accepted modes of therapy or by itself in the treatment of any malignancy, disease, illness or physical condition of a patient wh…

65-6b04. Same; act not endorsement; certain treatment by physician not prohibited. Nothing in this act shall be construed as constituting an endorsement of amygdalin (laetrile) for the treatment of any malignancy, disease, illness or physical condition, and nothing in this act sh…

65-6b05. Same; written informed request. The "written informed request" referred to in this act shall be on a form prepared by, and obtained from the state board of healing arts and shall be in substance as follows: WRITTEN INFORMED REQUEST FOR PRESCRIPTION OF AMYGDALIN (LAETRILE…