Title 06, Title 06: Agriculture

§ 3305. Additional powers of the Secretary In order to accomplish the objectives stated in section 3303 of this title, the Secretary may: (1) Remove inspectors from any establishment that fails to destroy condemned products as required under subdivision 3304(2) of this title. (2)…

§ 3306. Licensing (a) No person shall engage in intrastate commerce in the business of buying, selling, preparing, processing, packing, storing, transporting, or otherwise handling meat, meat food products, or poultry products, unless that person holds a valid license issued unde…

§ 3307. Periodic review of noninspected licensed establishments (a) The Secretary may cause establishments that are required to be licensed under section 3306 of this title, but exempt from inspection under subdivision 3305(13) of this title, to be periodically reviewed by inspec…

§ 3308. Prohibited acts in general (a) No person shall, with respect to any livestock or poultry or any livestock products or poultry products: (1) slaughter any livestock or poultry or prepare any products that are capable of use as human food, at any establishment preparing the…

§ 3309. Additional prohibited acts; official devices, marks, and certificates (a) No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person shall cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation, or any label bearing any mark or simulation, o…

§ 3310. Additional prohibited acts: labeling; denaturing; dealing in dead, dying, disabled, and diseased animals; licensing (a) No person shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any carcasses of horses, mules…

§ 3311. Specific offenses; penalties (a) Any person that gives, pays, or offers, directly or indirectly, any money or other thing of value to any officer or employee of this State authorized to perform any duties prescribed by this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter, wit…

§ 3311a. Livestock; inspection; licensing; personal slaughter; itinerant slaughter (a) As used in this section: (1) “Assist in the slaughter of livestock” means the act of slaughtering or butchering an animal and shall not mean the farmer’s provision of a site on the farm for sla…

§ 3312. Inspection; exceptions (a) Not intended for human food. Inspection shall not be provided under this chapter at any establishment for the slaughter of livestock or poultry or the preparation of any livestock products or poultry products that are not intended for use as hum…

§ 3313. Inspection and seal (a) No inspection of products placed in any container at any official establishment shall be deemed to be complete until the products are sealed or enclosed under the supervision of an inspector. (b) For purposes of any inspection of products required …

§ 3314. Detention When any livestock product or poultry product or any product exempted from the definition of a livestock product and from the definition of a poultry product, or any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or poultry, is found by any authorized representati…

§ 3315. Forfeiture (a) Any livestock product or poultry product of any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or poultry that is being transported in intrastate commerce, or is otherwise subject to this chapter, or is held for sale in this State after transportation, and th…

§ 3316. Appeal and jurisdiction (a) Any order issued under subdivision 3304(3) of this title; subdivision 3305(1), (2), or (3) of this title; subsection 3306(e) of this title; or a decision issued by the Secretary under subsection 3306(c) of this title shall be final unless appea…

§ 3317. Penalties; generally (a) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, or the rules adopted under this chapter, for which no other criminal penalty is provided by this chapter shall upon conviction be subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine o…

§ 3318. Investigation; record keeping (a) The Secretary shall also have power: (1) To gather and compile information and to investigate the organization, business, conduct, practices, and management of any person engaged in intrastate commerce and the relationship to other person…

§ 3319. Skilled meat cutter training The Secretary shall issue a request for proposals to develop a curriculum and provide classroom and on-the-job training for the occupation of skilled meat cutter. (Added 2011, No. 52, § 41, eff. May 27, 2011.)