Title 47, Animals, Livestock, and Poultry

Any person who sells, gives away or otherwise disposes of garbage to any person, except those persons whose garbage is collected by municipalities or persons who have a permit to collect garbage or to those who sell, give away or otherwise dispose of their ordinary household garb…

Any authorized representative of the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission is authorized to enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property where swine are kept for the purpose of inspecting and investigating conditions relating to the feeding of garbage to swin…

This chapter shall not apply to any person who feeds his own household garbage to swine, except that no person shall sell or offer for sale any hogs which have consumed any garbage within thirty days of sale.

The State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission is charged with administration and enforcement of this chapter in accordance with the terms of this chapter and Chapter 4 of Title 47.

A person who violates this chapter or regulations promulgated under it is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130. The person may be enjoined from continuing the violation. Each day on which a violation occurs constitutes…

This article may be cited as the "South Carolina Meat and Meat Food Regulations and Inspection Law of 1967."

(A) A person who violates Section 47-17-60, 47-17-70, 47-17-80, or 47-17-120 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130; but if such violation involves intent to defraud, or any distribution or attempted distribution of a…

(A) A person operating an establishment in which equine, cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are slaughtered or in which meat, meat by-products, or meat food products of, or derived from, equine, cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are wholly or in part canned, cured, smoked, salted, packe…

The Director shall promulgate such rules and regulations and appoint such veterinarians and other qualified personnel as are necessary to carry out the purposes or provisions of this article. Such rules and regulations shall be in conformity with the rules and regulations under t…

(a) This article shall not apply to any act or transaction subject to regulations under the Federal Meat Inspection Act. (b) The Director shall cooperate with the South Carolina Department of Agriculture and may cooperate with the Federal Government in carrying out the provisions…

The cost of inspection rendered under this article shall be borne by this State except that the cost of overtime and holiday work performed in establishments subject to the provisions of this article at such rates as the Director may determine shall be borne by such establishment…

For purposes of this article: (a) The term "intrastate commerce" means commerce within this State. (b) The commission, which has the responsibility of administering this article, means the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission. (c) The term "livestock" means cattle, sheep, sw…

(a) For the purpose of preventing the entry into or movement in intrastate commerce of any livestock carcass, part thereof, meat food product or meat by-product which is unwholesome or adulterated and is intended for or capable of use as human food, the Director shall, where and …

It shall be unlawful to import from foreign countries into the State of South Carolina any type of meat, whether fresh, dried or canned, which is not free of communicable diseases which adversely affect the people of South Carolina and the animal life of the State. All foreign me…

The Department of Agriculture is charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this article. All meat found by the Department of Agriculture which is landed within the boundaries of the State and does not comply with the provisions of this article shall be confiscated and des…

(a) Each official establishment at which livestock is slaughtered or livestock carcasses or parts thereof, meat food products and meat by-products are processed for intrastate commerce shall have such premises, facilities, and equipment, and be operated in accordance with such sa…

(A) Each shipping container of meat, meat food product, or meat by-product inspected pursuant to the authority of this article and found to be wholesome and not adulterated, must at the time the product leaves the official establishment, bear in distinctly legible form, the offic…

(A) For the purposes of this section: (1) "artificial or cell-cultivated food product" means any food product developed in a laboratory or facility and grown from a biopsy of living animal cells including, but not limited to, livestock, poultry, fish, crustaceans, or other animal…

The provisions of this article do not apply to plant-based meat substitutes.

A person who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be imprisoned not more than one year, or fined not more than one thousand dollars, or both.

The following acts or the causing thereof within this State are hereby prohibited: (a) 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 thereof, meat food pr…

Subject to the provisions of Section 47-17-140(a), no establishment in this State shall slaughter any livestock or process any livestock carcasses, or parts thereof, meat food products or meat by-products, for human consumption, except in compliance with the requirements of this …

For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this article, persons engaged in this State in the business of processing for intrastate commerce or transporting, shipping or receiving in such commerce livestock slaughtered for human consumption, or meat, meat food products or mea…

The provisions of this article requiring inspection by the Director shall not apply: (1) To the slaughter on his own premises of livestock of his own raising, and the preparation and transportation in intrastate commerce of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food product…

This chapter may be cited as the South Carolina Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1969 and must be administered by the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission in accordance with this chapter and Chapter 4 of this title.

The following classes of persons shall, for such period of time as the board may by regulations prescribe, not to exceed two years unless otherwise directed by the director for good cause shown, keep such records as are properly necessary for the effective enforcement of this cha…

No person shall engage in business, in or for intrastate commerce, as a poultry products broker, renderer or animal food manufacturer, or engage in business in intrastate commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of any poultry intended for…

(a) Any person who violates the provisions of Sections 47-19-70, 47-19-80, 47-19-90, 47-19-100, 47-19-35, or 47-19-110 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished in accordance with Section 47-4-130; but if such violation involves intent to def…

Before any violation of this chapter is reported by the director to the Attorney General or the appropriate solicitor for institution of a criminal proceeding, the person against whom such proceeding is contemplated shall be given reasonable notice of the alleged violation and op…

(a) The board shall, by regulation and under such conditions and requirements as to sanitary standards, practices and procedures as it may prescribe, exempt from specific provisions of this chapter with respect to processing of poultry or poultry products solely for intrastate co…

The director may limit the entry of poultry products and other materials into any official establishment under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure that allowing the entry of such articles into such inspected establishments will be consistent with the purposes of this ch…

The provisions of this chapter shall also apply to pigeons, either live or dead, and when the term "poultry" is used in this chapter it shall be construed to include pigeons unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

The board shall promulgate such rules and regulations as shall enable the director to carry out the purposes and intent of this chapter.

The cost of inspection rendered under the requirements of this chapter shall be borne by this State, except as provided in Section 47-19-30 and except that the cost of overtime and holiday work performed in establishments subject to the provisions of this chapter, at such rates a…

For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings stated below: (a) "Commission" means the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission. (b) "Director" means the Director of State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission or his delegate. (c) "Poultry products brok…

(A) The commission may provide for voluntary inspection programs for families or species of birds for which inspection is not mandated by law. These birds include, but are not limited to, ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries, and other ratites. (B) The commission shall establish h…

(A) The Livestock-Poultry Health Commission is designated as the state agency which is responsible for cooperating with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States under the provisions of Section 5 of the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act. The commission shall coopera…

(A) A person operating an establishment in which poultry is slaughtered or in which poultry, poultry by-products, or poultry food products, of or derived from fowl, are wholly or in part canned, cured, smoked, salted, packed, rendered, or otherwise prepared which are offered as f…

(a) For the purpose of preventing the entry into or flow or movement in intrastate commerce of any poultry product which is capable of use as human food and is adulterated, the director shall, where and to the extent considered by him necessary, cause to be made by inspectors ant…

(a) Each official establishment slaughtering poultry or processing poultry products solely for intrastate commerce shall have such premises, facilities and equipment, and be operated in accordance with such sanitary practices, as are required by regulations promulgated by the boa…

(A) All poultry products inspected at an official establishment under the authority of this chapter and found to be not adulterated at the time they leave the establishment, must bear in distinctly legible form on their shipping containers and immediate containers, as the directo…

(a) No person shall (1) Slaughter any poultry or process any poultry products which are capable of use as human food at any establishment processing any such articles solely for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this chapter; (2) Sell, transport, …

No establishment processing poultry or poultry products solely for intrastate commerce shall process any poultry or poultry product capable of use as human food except in compliance with the requirements of this chapter.

Inspection shall not be provided under this article at any establishment for the slaughter of poultry or the processing of any carcasses or parts or products of poultry which are not intended for use as human food, but such articles shall, prior to their offer for sale or transpo…

(A) In addition to any regulations authorized to be promulgated pursuant to this chapter, the Department of Environmental Services shall promulgate regulations regarding confined swine feeding operations which are separate and distinct from the regulations promulgated pursuant to…

This chapter may be cited as the "Farm Animal, Crop Operation, and Research Facilities Protection Act".