3-2081

3-2081. Licenses for sale or exchange of meat
or poultry; fee; records kept by licensee; expiration of license;
violation; classification

A. A person, firm or corporation that engages in the business of meat or poultry
processing, wholesaling, storing in or for intrastate commerce, transporting in
intrastate commerce, distributing, jobbing or brokering other than canned meat or poultry
or canned meat or poultry products, except a home consumer, shall, before offering such
meat or poultry or meat or poultry food products for sale or exchange, after complying
with the minimum requirements of the director, procure a license from the division, for
which he shall pay an annual license fee of ten dollars for each place of business,
store, stand, market or vehicle in or from which the meat is to be sold or exchanged and
shall keep a record of the name and address of each person from whom the licensee
obtained such meat or meat food products, the date of purchase, quantity and kind of meat
purchased and time and place of purchase. Upon request by an inspector or peace officer,
the licensee shall exhibit the record to him. The record shall be retained for one year.

B. All licenses issued under the provisions of this article shall expire on
December 31 of the year in which issued.

C. The following persons, firms and corporations shall keep such records as will
fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their businesses and all
persons, firms and corporations subject to such requirements shall at all reasonable
times upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the department afford such
representative access to their places of business and opportunity to examine the
facilities and inventory and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment
of the fair market value:

1. Any persons, firms or corporations that engage in the business of slaughtering
any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines or preparing, freezing,
packaging or labeling any carcasses or parts or products of carcasses of any such animals
for use as human food or animal food.

2. Any persons, firms or corporations that engage in the business of buying or
selling as meat brokers, wholesalers or otherwise or transporting or storing or importing
any carcasses or parts or products of carcasses of any such animals.

3. Any persons, firms or corporations that engage in business as renderers or
engage in the business of buying, selling, transporting or importing any dead, dying,
disabled or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines or parts
of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter.

D. Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for
such period of time as the director may by rules prescribe.

E. A person violating any provision of this section is guilty of a class 2
misdemeanor.