PART III. LICENSING

 

§159-11  Certificate of sanitation. (a)  The board may issue certificates of sanitation to slaughterhouses and meatprocessors which are subject to this chapter and which meet minimum sanitaryspecifications required for:

(1)  The slaughtering of animals for use of the meator meat products in intrastate commerce.

(2)  The processing, rendering, transporting, storing,and handling of the meat or meat products in intrastate commerce.  The boardmay adopt rules, subject to chapter 91, governing the minimum sanitaryspecifications and prescribing forms, requiring reports, and providing forperiodic renewals of the certificates.

(b)  Notwithstanding any other law or ruleunder this chapter which requires the renovation or upgrading of the physicalfacilities of slaughterhouses and meat processors in order to obtain acertificate of sanitation, the board shall nonetheless issue certificates ofsanitation to slaughterhouses and meat processors licensed by the State;provided that:

(1)  The facilities of the slaughterhouses and meatprocessors are sanitary and the products which emerge from their respectiveoperations are wholesome, not adulterated, and fit for human consumption; and

(2)  Upon the sale or transfer of any of the foregoingbusinesses, the person to whom the business is transferred shall be required tomeet all of the requirements and the rules under this chapter. [L 1969, c 214,pt of §1; am L 1990, c 139, §4; am L 1991, c 88, §1; am L 1993, c 248, §2]