PART V. POULTRY PROCESSORS AND RELATED

INDUSTRIES

 

§161-36  Records; subject to examination. (a)  For the enforcement of this chapter, the following classes of personsshall keep records, as the board by rule may require, that will fully andcorrectly disclose all transactions; and all persons subject to theserequirements shall, at all reasonable times, upon notice by an authorizedrepresentative of the board, afford that representative or any authorizedrepresentative of the United States Secretary of Agriculture access to theirplaces of business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventory, andrecords thereof, to copy all those records, and to take reasonable samples oftheir inventory upon payment of the fair market value therefor:

(1)  Any person that is engaged, in or for intrastatecommerce, in the business of slaughtering any poultry or processing, freezing,packaging, or labeling any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of anypoultry capable of use as human or animal food, including any person operatingunder the exemptions in section 161-29(a)(2) or (3);

(2)  Any person that is engaged in the business ofbuying or selling, as poultry brokers, wholesalers, or otherwise, ortransporting in intrastate commerce, or storing in or for intrastate commerce,any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any poultry;

(3)  Any person that is engaged in business, in or forintrastate commerce, as renderers, or engaged in the business of buying,selling, or transporting, in intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, ordiseased poultry, or parts of the carcasses of any such poultry that diedotherwise than by slaughter.

(b)  Any record required to be maintained bythis section shall be maintained for the period specified by rule. [L 1969, c212, §23; am L 1993, c 92, §7]