1.Use as human food.
A person may not, with respect to livestock, poultry or livestock products or poultry products:
2.Slaughtered poultry.
In intrastate commerce, a person may not sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation or from an official establishment any slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet, head or viscera have not been removed in accordance with rules adopted by the commissioner except as authorized by those rules.
3.Carcasses of horses, mules or other equines or parts of these carcasses.
In intrastate commerce, a person may not sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation any carcasses of horses, mules or other equines or parts of these carcasses, or the meat or meat food products of th
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1.
Use as human food.
A person may not, with respect to livestock, poultry or livestock products or poultry products:
2.
Slaughtered poultry.
In intrastate commerce, a person may not sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation or from an official establishment any slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet, head or viscera have not been removed in accordance with rules adopted by the commissioner except as authorized by those rules.
3.
Carcasses of horses, mules or other equines or parts of these carcasses.
In intrastate commerce, a person may not sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation any carcasses of horses, mules or other equines or parts of these carcasses, or the meat or meat food products of these carcasses.
4.
Denatured.
In intrastate commerce, a person may not buy, sell, transport or offer for sale or transportation or receive for transportation livestock products or poultry products that are not intended for use as human food, unless they are denatured or otherwise identified as required by the rules of the commissioner or are naturally inedible by humans.
5.
Animals not slaughtered.
A person engaged in the business of buying, selling or transporting in intrastate commerce dead, dying, disabled or diseased animals or 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 intrastate commerce dead, dying, disabled or diseased livestock or poultry or the products of these animals that died other than by slaughter, unless the transaction or transportation is made in accordance with rules that the commissioner may prescribe to ensure that the animals or the unwholesome parts or products are prevented from being used for human food purposes.
6.
False information or failure to cooperate.
A person commits a Class D crime if the person intentionally or knowingly:
7.
Report.
If a person fails to file an annual or special report as required by this chapter, the commissioner shall notify that person of the failure to report and designate a day by which the report must be received. If the report is not received within 30 days of the designated day, the person shall forfeit $100 to the State for each day beyond the 30-day period. The forfeiture is payable into the State Treasury and is recoverable in a civil suit, in the name of the State, brought in the county where the person has that person's principal office or in the Superior Court.