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SECTION 19010-19017
19010. (a) Each person shall, before operating a meat processing establishment or a custom livestock slaughterhouse, file an application accompanied with an application fee, with the director for a license to operate the establishment. The application shall be in such form as the director may prescribe. (b) The application fee is fifty dollars ($50) for a license for one year for each establishment which the applicant desires to operate. Each license shall expire on the last day of the calendar year for which it was issued. The fee shall not be prorated. 19011. (a) Application for renewal of a license accompanied by a fee of fifty dollars ($50) shall be made on or before its expiration. To any fee which is not paid when due, there shall be added a penalty of twenty dollars ($20). Failure to pay the renewal fee plus the penalty within 90 days of expiration shall cause a revocation of a license. (b) No person shall operate an establishment performing any of the functions stated in this chapter unless the establishment is licensed and continues to meet building and sanitation standards required by this chapter and the regulations thereunder. 19012. No person shall operate a licensed establishment performing the functions stated in this chapter unless all livestock and livestock products are inspected for wholesomeness and the facilities are inspected for sanitation by a licensed livestock meat inspector or a licensed processing inspector. 19013. No person shall operate a meat processing establishment unless all livestock and poultry products used in processing and to be sold have been inspected by the United States Department of Agriculture, fallow deer products have been inspected at a custom livestock slaughterhouse, or poultry products have been inspected in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 24951) of Part 1 of Division 12 and the processing of the product is inspected by a licensed processing inspector. 19014. Plant sanitation, sanitary dressing procedures, processing procedures, vehicle equipment, facility standards, and sanitation, including transportation and storage of products, shall follow procedures which may be set forth in regulations or operations manuals adopted by the department. 19015. Livestock carcasses and parts and livestock and poultry products shall not be packed, repacked, cut up, recut, or sold unless each container or each part or each carcass, whichever is applicable, is marked in a manner which is required by this chapter and the regulations thereunder. 19016. (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), all custom slaughtered livestock carcasses and parts shall be marked in a manner required by the department to identify the inspected premises and that the products are not for sale. (2) Fallow deer carcasses and parts thereof intended for transportation or sale shall be marked in a manner required by the department to identify the inspected premises and to show that the products have been inspected under this chapter. (b) The department shall determine, by regulation, the official design of the marks that are required by this chapter. 19017. It is unlawful to do any of the following: (a) Operate an establishment not licensed by the department. (b) Operate an establishment that is not clean. (c) Operate an establishment in a manner or under conditions that are not sanitary. (d) Operate an establishment that does not meet the sanitary building or equipment standards pursuant to the regulations of this chapter. (e) Operate an establishment in violation of an order of a licensed livestock meat inspector, licensed processing inspector, or a department inspector. (f) Dispose of condemned and inedible livestock carcasses or parts of livestock products in violation of this chapter or the regulations thereunder. (g) Misbrand or mislabel livestock and poultry products.
