§ 4.1-31-16 — Registration and licensure of business

1. A person may not engage in intrastate business as a meat broker, renderer, or animal
food manufacturer; a wholesaler of animal carcasses intended for human food or other
purposes; a public warehouse operator storing carcasses of animals in or for intrastate
commerce; or a buyer, seller, or transporter of dead, dying, disabled, or diseased
animals, or the carcasses of animals that died other than by slaughter, unless the
person first provides the commissioner with the person's name, the address of each
place of business under which the person conducts business, and all trade names
under which the person conducts business.
2. A person, in order to operate under this chapter, shall obtain a license in accordance
with the rules adopted by the commissioner. Application for a license must be made on
forms provided by the commissioner. The commissioner may refuse to issue a license
if the applicant or the establishment of the applicant is not in compliance with this
chapter and related rules. If the commissioner finds that the person to which the
license is issued violates this chapter or related rules, the commissioner may suspend
or revoke the license, or upon revocation and with good cause, refuse to issue a new
license.

3. A person applying for a license pursuant to this section shall pay a license fee to the
commissioner as follows:
a. The license fee for an official establishment is twenty-five dollars;
b. The license fee for a custom exempt establishment is twenty-five dollars; and
c. The license fee for any other establishment or entity required to be licensed
under this chapter is twenty-five dollars.