§ 15-17-5-7 — Transportation of equine carcasses, livestock, poultry not intended for human consumption, and carcasses of animals that died other than by slaughter

Indiana § 15-17-5-7

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 17: ANIMAL HEALTH AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
• Ch. 5: Meat and Poultry Inspection; Humane Slaughter Act

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(a) A person may not sell, transport, offer for
sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in commerce,
carcasses or parts of carcasses of horses, mules, or other equines or the
meat or meat food products of equines, unless the carcasses are plainly
and conspicuously marked or labeled or identified as required by rules
adopted by the board to show the kinds of animals from which the
carcasses were derived.
(b) A person may not buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or
transportation, or receive for transportation, in commerce, livestock
products or poultry products that are not intended for use as human
food unless the products are denatured or identified as required by the
rules of the board or are naturally inedible by humans.
(c) A person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or
transporting in commerce, dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals,
or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that died other than by
slaughter, may not buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation,
or receive for transportation, in commerce, dead, dying, disabled, or
diseased livestock or poultry or the products of such animals that died
other than by slaughter unless the transaction or transportation is made
in accordance with rules adopted by the board to ensure that the
animals, or the unwholesome parts or products of the animals, will be
prevented from being used for human food purposes.
[Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-24-9.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.