§ 35-21-204 — Exceptions

(1) Section 35-21-203 (1) does not apply during:

(a) Medical research;

(b) Examination, testing, individual treatment, or operation for veterinary
purposes, but only if performed by or under the direct supervision of a veterinarian
licensed in accordance with article 315 of title 12;

(c) Transportation;

(d) A state or county fair exhibition, a 4-H program, and similar exhibitions;

(e) Slaughter, if done in accordance with an applicable law; or

(f) Temporary periods for animal husbandry purposes for no more than six
hours in any twenty-four-hour period and no more than twenty-four hours total in
any thirty-day period.

(2) This part 2 does not apply to:

(a) The production in the state, sale in the state, or transport for sale in the
state of shell eggs by a farm owner or operator with annual shell egg production
from three thousand or fewer egg-laying hens if all shell eggs sold in the state or
transported for sale in the state by the farm owner or operator are derived from
three thousand or fewer egg-laying hens; or

(b) The sale of or transport for sale of shell eggs in the state by a business
owner or operator at one or more business locations in the state if all of the
following conditions are met:

(I) Each business location owned by or operated by the business owner or
operator sells fewer than twenty-five cases of thirty dozen shell eggs per week;

(II) All business locations owned by or operated by the business owner or
operator collectively sell fewer than one hundred cases of thirty dozen shell eggs
per week; and

(III) The business owner or operator is not a farm owner or operator.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2020: Entire part added, (HB 20-1343), ch. 217, p. 1074, � 1, effective September 14.